Language Back

2025 7 min

Overview

Language Back is a short documentary featuring snippets of conversation and lectures at Indigenous Nations Poets #LanguageBack Workshops from UW-Milwaukee and The College of Menominee Nation in 2024. The film consists of narration by Kimberly M. Blaeser (Founder of In-Na-Po), Mark Freeland (Director of the Electa Quinney Institute), and Language Revivalists: Rosa King, Richard Oshkeshequoam, Kai Pyle, Brock Schreiber, and Wayne Valliere. This short showcases In-Na-Po workshop participants exploring poetic use of Native languages and gathering to build community in educational and outdoor settings. It features the work of poets along with time-lapse photography of LED letter panels from the Overpass Light Brigade. It is set to a soundtrack featuring world music and a short poem by Jeremiah Moses, Jr.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

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Cast

Kimberly M. Blaeser

Self/Narrator

Mark Freeland

Self

Rosa King

Self

Richard Oshkeshequoam

Self

Kai Pyle

Self

Brock Schreiber

Self

Wayne Valliere

Self

Crew

Dusan V. Harminc

Director

Dusan V. Harminc

Producer

Kimberly M. Blaeser

Producer

Jeremiah Moses, Jr.

Music

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