Making a documentary like Dodging Bullets, brings us into the lives many different people’s personal experiences, not all of which are good. As a film crew we need to be able to separate ourselves from the harshness of these realities, and sometimes it is more
Overcoming Historical Trauma is an Everyday Event for Emmy. After our visit with Melissa Walls and Michelle Johnson-Jennings in Duluth, we made our way to Red Lake, Minnesota to meet with a young Native woman by the name of Emmy. Her story would be the
Our first shoot for Dodging Bullets began in May when we took a trip to Duluth, Minnesota to meet with two assistant professors from the University of Minnesota – Duluth, Melissa Walls Ph.D. and Michelle Johnson-Jennings Ph.D., Ed.M. Both of these women are co-director’s at
This summer, our crew for Dodging Bullets made a quick road trip to Bemidji State University in Minnesota to meet and discuss Broken Treaties with Dr. Anton Treuer. Dr. Treuer is the Executive Director of the Native American Resource Center, we spoke about Broken Treaties, historical trauma;
In September, our film crew for Dodging Bullets, drove out to Appleton, Wisconsin to meet Dirk Whitebreast and a group of Wittenberg Youth Council Members from the Ho-Chunk Indian Nation who ran the Fox Cities Marathon relay in support of suicide prevention. The experience was