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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter documentary

Original title: Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter
Year: 1989
Running time: 90 min.
Country: United States
Director: Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Leonard Kamerling
Producer: Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Genre: Documentary | Music Documentary. Music
Synopsis: The film follows the elders of Emmonak as they prepare for the coming ceremonial gathering with a neighboring village. In the Kashim, they practice their songs and painstakingly work out the motions of the dances. Throughout the film, archival photographs and film footage accompany the words of early missionaries who brought Christianity to the area. These sequences provide a historical context for the film and give us a strong sense of the resilience of Yup'ik culture, having survived despite a century of missionary suppression.

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Uksuum Cauyai: The Drums of Winter

1989

Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling