Ajuawak Kapashesit

Ajuawak Kapashesit

History

Ajuawak Kapashesit, who is both Anishinaabe and Cree, spent much of his youth on the White Earth reservation near Ponsford, MN.

Profile

Ajuawak Kapashesit

Movies

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Script Consultant
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Seeds
Producer
Without parents to guide them, two girls reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss.
Seeds
Writer
Without parents to guide them, two girls reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss.
Seeds
Director
Without parents to guide them, two girls reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss.
Indian Road Trip
Hank Crow-Eyes
When two unruly Native con-artists are forced to drive a cranky elder across the reserve so she can make peace with her long estranged and dying sister, it quickly becomes clear that a supernatural force is trying to halt the journey.
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
Honeyboy Yellowdog
An Indigenous woman reluctantly returns to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her bitter mother.
Once Upon a River
After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way, she encounters allies, enemies, danger, and the beauty of nature, all while coming to grips with her past and her own identity.
Shinaab, Part II
The Shinaab
A look at Ojibwe ideas surrounding the death process as a young man strives to honor his late father.
Indian Horse
Saul (22 Years)
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Shinaab
The Shinaab
An Anishinaabe man is restless and isolated in the city of Minneapolis, haunted by an ominous sense that he doesn’t belong. Shinaab eerily portrays Indigenous people’s dislocation and alienation on their own land as sinister and enigmatic forces.