The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library presents Native Film Night with “Tracing Roots” as the featured film at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Red Cedar Hall, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Campus, 1033 Old Blyn Highway, Blyn.
“Tracing Roots” is a portrait of an artist and a mystery. The film follows master weaver and Haida elder Delores Churchill on a journey to understand the origins of a spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi, the Long Ago Person Found, a 300-year-old traveler discovered in Northern Canada in a retreating glacier.
Churchill’s quest crosses cultures and borders, involving artists, scholars and scientists, raising questions about the meaning of connection, knowledge and ownership.
Matt DuBeau, museum curator for Olympic National Park, will be at this screening to discuss the fragment of a woven cedar basket that was found in 1993 at the edge of a snowfield near a parking lot at Obstruction Point. He also will bring some artifacts from the park collection.
This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Call 681-4632 or email library@jamestowntribe.org for more information.