Gamba is a fusion of African music brought to Amazonia by the slaves with Indian songs and missionary hymns. In the 19th century, slaves fleeing the plantations and the hardships of captivity took refuge in the forest. They lived there with the Indians, who taught them to survive in the hostile environment of the big forest. From their meeting sprang this astonishing Afro-Indigenous music, based on drums, song and dances.
Gamba is a fusion of African music brought to Amazonia by the slaves with Indian songs and missionary hymns. In the 19th century, slaves fleeing the plantations and the hardships of captivity took refuge in the forest. They lived there with the Indians, who taught them to survive in the hostile environment of the big forest. From their meeting sprang this astonishing Afro-Indigenous music, based on drums, song and dances.
Gamba is a fusion of African music brought to Amazonia by the slaves with Indian songs and missionary hymns. In the 19th century, slaves fleeing the plantations and the hardships of captivity took refuge in the forest. They lived there with the Indians, who taught them to survive in the hostile environment of the big forest. From their meeting sprang this astonishing Afro-Indigenous music, based on drums, song and dances.
17-year-old Fonassa Bruyere’s family got the sense she might be in danger in the weeks leading up to her murder.
Claudette Osborne-Tyo was the mother of four children when she went missing, sending phone messages received too late.
In the summer of 2010, 20-year-old Amber Guiboche got into a red truck and was never seen again.
In 2009, young mother Cherisse Houle’s body was found near Sturgeon Creek, in rural Manitoba.
Emily Osmond was 78 years old when she vanished from her property on the outskirts of Kawacatoose First Nation.
Marie Jeanne Kreiser’s family was looking forward to seeing her for Thanksgiving, 1987, in but she never arrived.
Like many other women, Danielle LaRue and Ashley Machiskinic were victims of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.
Women have been assaulted, gone missing, and been murdered along British Columbia’s Highway 16 for decades.
On Mother's Day, 2009, Tanya Brooks had final telephone conversations with her family before being killed that night.
Best friends Maisy Odjick and Shannon Alexander had plans to go to a teen dance, but they vanished without a single clue.
Sandra Johnson was a pow wow princess from a loving family on the Seine River First Nation who was brutally murdered.
Tanya Nepinak’s disappearance and presumed murder is one of many in a long series of unsolved violent deaths in her family.
15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s murder provoked international outrage on the issue of Canada’s MMIWG.
The last time 44-year-old Sindy Ruperthouse was last seen was in Val D’or, Quebec, at a hospital, on April 23, 2014. She had been beaten up and had multiple broken ribs. When Sindy had her last conversation with her family, Sindy asked for a large amount of money. Sindy said she would call back, but her family never heard from her again. Sindy’s case has been reopened after an investigative report by Radio-Canada shone a spotlight on their Sûreté du Québec’s mishandling of Sindy’s case.
14-year-old Amanda Cook went with her dad and brothers to the Rossburn Fair Festival on July 13, 1996, near her home in Waywayseecappo. The last time Amanda's dad saw his little girl was 6:30 or 7:00 that evening. Four days later, Amanda's lifeless body was found, beaten to death. Amanda's life was taken over twenty years ago and even though one man stood trial three times for her murder, her case has never been solved.
Lorilee Mae Francis was 23 or 24 the last time she was known to be seen or heard from by family or friends on October 20, 2007. She was last known to be in Grande Prairie, Alberta. When Lorilee didn’t contact her family during the Christmas season, her family reported her missing. She may left her home of her own will, or she might have been trafficked. Lorilee was the mom of two children. She was afflicted by addictions, and that took a toll on her whole life.
Josephine Edna Martin, from Moose Lake, Manitoba went missing from The Pas, Manitoba on November 15th, 2015. Josie, as she was known by her many friends, is beloved by her seven children, and well known in her community. Josephine battled issues related to addictions, but she had never gone missing before, and communicated with her family regularly. She was last seen outside Giant Tiger – a place where she and her friends loved to gather.
On October 13, 1994, the body of 38-year-old Janet Sylvestre was discovered in a wooded area, just outside of Saskatoon. Evidence at the scene indicated she was the victim of homicide. Janet's case remains unsolved. Janet Sylvestre was from the Dene nation and grew up in northern Saskatchewan, but as an adult spread her wings and moved to cities like Edmonton, Toronto and then Saskatoon, but she was known to return home to La Loche, to visit her family.
Leona Brule was just 18 years old when she went to visit her boyfriend in Edmonton, Alberta, from Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, where she had been working as a live-in-nanny. It was March 1989…and about a year later when Leona stopped coming home to visit her mother, Leona’s mom filed a police report. RCMP suspects that Leona was living on the streets in Edmonton in the 1990s, but Leona has never been found, and her case remains open.
Crystal Andrews was from God’s Lake, Manitoba, a fly-in community 550 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. Crystal went to a social on November 7, 2015, and her fiancé and two children waited for her to return home. She never made it. Her body was found November 9, 2015 in an isolated location in God’s Lake. She was 23 years old. Crystal’s death has been declared suspicious by RCMP, but no arrests have been made.
Patricia (Trish) Carpenter, a 14-year-old mother of a two-month-old boy, was found dead at a Toronto construction site on Sept. 25, 1992. The coroner’s investigative statement says Carpenter’s body was “wedged very tightly, head-first, into a pit…” and that she died of asphyxiation. The case was quickly wrapped up, with no evidence of foul play reported. However, the coroner eventually deemed it necessary to have an inquest into Patricia’s death.
The day before her disappearance, 27-year-old Caitlin Potts was last seen at Orchard Park Mall in Kelowna, British Columbia. Caitlin last had contact with her loved ones when she sent her sister Codi a message on Facebook on February 22, 2016. On March 1, 2016, a missing persons report was made to the RCMP. No official missing persons alert appeared on the RCMP’s website until March 21, 2016. Caitlin’s disappearance is being treated as a homicide.
On September 17th, 1999, 44-year-old Elizabeth Dorion arrived at Mile 94, a commercial fish camp, where she stayed almost four days with friends. The last time she was known to be seen was September 20th. She was wearing a button sweater, t-shirt, and jogging pants. Elizabeth was reported missing on November 13th, 1999. At 5'4", Elizabeth was approximately 150 lbs. at the time of her disappearance. Two ground searches were conducted by the RCMP, but Elizabeth was never found.
When 23-year-old Cheryl Johnson’s family learned that she was found drowned in Sydney Harbour in May 2001, they were in shock. Cheryl was a strong swimmer. She had left the night before with $200, and was found with only a toonie in her pocket. Cheryl’s case was closed by law enforcement after only two days of investigating. It was determined that there had been no foul play connected to Cheryl’s death. Cheryl’s family is unsatisfied with this determination, and want answers.
On April 1, 2009, 16-year-old Nicole Daniels was found frozen to death behind a rental car agency in Winnipeg. When the autopsy report came back, Nicole’s family was shocked to find that no foul play was suspected. The cause of death was hypothermia, with acute alcohol intoxication as a significant contributing factor. However, Nicole’s family remembers her getting into a vehicle with an older man who they suspect Nicole met in a phone chat room. They believe that her death was not an accident.
Amber Tuccaro was 20 years old, and the mother of a 14-monthold boy when she travelled with her baby and a female friend from Fort McMurray to Nisku, Alberta with the plan of heading to Edmonton the next day, August 18, 2010. When she left her friend and son on Amber decided to hitchhike into the city, and was picked up by an unknown man. There was a conversation with this man that was recorded - it was the last time Amber’s voice was heard.
16 year old Delaine Copenace vanished from Kenora, Ontario, igniting tireless searches until she was found in Lake of the Woods.
In the winter of 2010, Angela Meyer stepped out from her parents’ home in Yellowknife and was never seen again.
Jennifer Catcheway’s family has been searching for her ever since she didn’t arrive to celebrate her 18th birthday in 2008.
Mildred Flett was last seen getting into a brown car one summer night in 2010, and hasn’t been seen since.
Kelly Morrisseau was a mother of 3 and 7 months pregnant when she was found near death in a park in Gatineau, Quebec.
Glenda Morrisseau was 19 years old when she went missing, then was found brutally murdred in Winnipeg in 1991.
Gladys Simon went for a walk from Restigouche Hospital in Campbellton, New Brunswick. Her remains were found eight years later.
In 2013, Cheyenne Fox mysteriously fell 24 stories to her death from a high-rise apartment in Toronto, Ontario.
Jacqueline Crazybull lost her life in Calgary as one of the victims in a series of random attacks.
Tamara Chipman mysteriously disappeared in 2005, and Belinda Williams vanished in 1977 – both from British Columbia.
In 2003, Felicia Solomon went missing and months later her partial remains were found in the Red River.
It’s been over a decade since the disappearance of Danita Big Eagle left family, community and authorities combing for answers.
Hillary Angel Wilson came from Norway House Cree Nation and was murdered in Winnipeg in August, 2009.
Decades before scientists called the world's attention to the imminent dangers of global warming, the elders of one of Alaska's last remaining indigenous communities, the Yupik people, warned their children: "When the world will change, the climate will change and then men will change ”.
Decades before scientists called the world's attention to the imminent dangers of global warming, the elders of one of Alaska's last remaining indigenous communities, the Yupik people, warned their children: "When the world will change, the climate will change and then men will change ”.
A year in the making, the film goes inside the inner sanctum of the Dudley United Football Club during the 2017 campaign and reveals the remarkable bravery of young indigenous men who cross an ocean to start new lives and, at the same time, change others.
‘Goshen – Places of Refuge for the Running People’ is a powerful documentary depicting the diet and active lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe, who are striving to maintain their ancient culture against all odds.
‘Goshen – Places of Refuge for the Running People’ is a powerful documentary depicting the diet and active lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe, who are striving to maintain their ancient culture against all odds.
