The journey back
Description
In The Journey Back (Part II), the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film (The Earth is Our Mother) to the tribes and learn how they feel about their representation. This follow-up film concentrates on the Arhuaco Indians who continue to maintain their strong spiritual and cultural identity in the face of wide ranging attempts to grab their land, torment their spiritual leaders, and make their independent lifestyle untenable. The Arhuaco are unimpressed with the earlier film even though it attempts to plead their cause to the outside world. Physically small, garbed in pristine white with box-like headdresses, pain smolders on their faces when they speak of the injustice they have suffered, including the assassination of their spiritual leaders. The Journey Back gives voice to the ravages of their colonial history.Member of a series: The Earth is Our Mother (Part I).
Runtime
50 min
Creator
Elsass, Peter
Series
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Genre
Date of Publication
1988
Database
Alexander Street
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