Special Report: Remaining Native (2025)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Mike speaks with director Paige Bethmann and editor Stephanie Khoury about their powerful 2025 documentary Remaining Native. Bethmann and Khoury discuss the challenges of telling a deeply personal story within a broader political context, the importance of Indigenous voices in environmental activism, and the responsibility of documentary filmmakers in preserving cultural truth.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.5	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Hey,
0:32.1	it's wrong.
0:32.4	Yeah! My dad always kind of filled me in on certain things that happened to us in our past.
0:46.3	But I never realized how bad it was.
0:57.5	It's just kind of a realization moment that not everybody has taught that because it's not their history and it is their history.
1:05.8	Native Americans were sent to boarding schools to die.
1:15.6	If you didn't die physically, you would come out of the school broken.
1:23.6	My great-grandfather, Frank Quinn, he ran away from this boarding school three times.
1:33.3	He was eight years old and...
1:36.3	It's like how.
1:42.3	How could an eight-year-old cross over mountains 50 miles a couple of days?
1:47.0	It's just unthinkable.
1:51.0	Some of us start this race in life way farther ahead than other people when they're born.
2:07.6	But at the end of the day, it's up to us to really make that kind of comeback.
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