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In this deeply personal film, historian Kate Beane follows the journey of her relative Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman) from his traditional Santee Dakota childhood in Minnesota to his celebrated national success as a physician, prolific author, and lecturer on Native life and issues in the early 1900s. 2018, digital video, 57 min.
Postshow conversation with Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux and Muskogee Creek) and Syd Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux).
Kate Beane holds a PhD in American Studies and is director of Native American Initiatives at the Minnesota Historical Society. Previously, she served as a program and outreach manager at MNHS working with Dakota communities across the region. She currently teaches Dakota history at Minneapolis College, serves as a board member for the Native Governance Center, and is an Urban Indian Advisory Board member for the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. Beane recently worked with her family to champion the cause of restoring the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska (from Lake Calhoun) in her ancestral homeland of Bde Ota (Minneapolis).
Syd Beane is a filmmaker and board chair of the American Indian CDC, vice-chair of the Little Earth United Tribes Housing Board, and committee chair of the Cloudman Village Recognition Committee. He has also written and coproduced Native Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights.
The family group involved in making this film includes: Syd Beane, William Beane, Kate Beane, and Carly Eastman Bad Heart Bull, direct descendants of John Eastman, and Gail Johnsen and Ginny Risk, direct descendants of Charles Eastman.