The Canary Effect

[Ric_Richardson]

Tansi;

Has anyone heard of a film called, "The Canary Effect" a Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman film?

The website www.thecanaryeffect.com states that it includes the controversial Ward Churchill and others.  It apparently won awards and is supposed to be about the US dealings with Aboriginal peoples, past and present.

It will be shown in Saskatoon, next month.

Any information would be appreciated.
Ric

[frederica]

Ric, Heard about it maybe a month ago more or less. It had not been released. I think there is a music CD  has, but not the movie. Suppose to be very realistic and factual. But have nothing to go on one way or the other as I know no one that has seen the entire movie, just clips.

[AClockworkWhite]

Has anyone seen this? Any thoughts? And does anyone know if Yellow Thunder Woman legit native?

[Laurel]

You can watch it here. It's not much over an hour long. It's been awhile since I watched it, but from what I remember, it seems like a reasonably straightforward history to me (not that I'm the best judge of such things). However, IIRC, Churchill is simply presented as "Professor Ward Churchill, Colorado University." It was made in '05 or '06 (?).

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/canary-effect/

[Laurel]

Oh--the description of the film at that site says "The movie was directed by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, who are both members of LA Based alternative pop group The Bastard Fairies," and nothing else about who they are.

[educatedindian]

YTH is variously called just Native on most sites, on one "Sioux." Not much on her bio. YTH does give the Lakota translation of her name. I haven't found any rez or band named, or what her legal name is.

[Epiphany]

She is Native American, a direct descendant of the Great Ponca Chief Standing Bear, an Indian princess and member of the Yankton Sioux.

2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070701133345/http://www.thebastardfairies.com/biography/index.html

Yellow Thunder Woman is an artist, singer and filmmaker raised on the Yankton Sioux and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota. A direct descendent of the Great Chief Standing Bear, she is the daughter of Greg Zephier, a former member of the American Treaty Council.

https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/512cf4721c7d76e0460019b0-canary-effect

[Epiphany]

the youngest daughter of American Indian Movement activist Greg Zephier

http://www.laweekly.com/music/tweaking-bill-oreilly-2148920

Greg Zephier http://musictexas.com/1bands/indig.html

Greg and his family participated in The Longest Walk in 1977, and in 1981 helped found Yellow Thunder Camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota, which helped reestablish the right of American Indians to practice their religion in the sacred Black Hills pursuant to rights established under various treaties with the Sioux Nation.
Recently, Greg focused his energy on creating and guiding the band Indigenous, made up of four of his children Mato, Wanbdi, Pte, and American Horse. He taught and guided them to their current status as world class performers, and the band has become his personal and professional legacy. Greg's unwavering commitment to Indian people, his artistry, and his encouraging and loving embrace of family and traditional Dakota values will be surely be missed by all who had the honor to know him. He is survived by his wife Beverly, 17 children and 48 grandchildren.

[AClockworkWhite]

Thank you for the responses, btw. I hadn't been on lately.