Yahoo Life: Native women explore identity in doc, “I Am Still Here”
Native American women seek to reclaim identity and show that Indigenous people are ‘still here’
When it comes to Native American identity, there isn’t one simple story. With more than 500 federally recognized tribes in the United States alone, and with 9.7 million people identifying as at least part Native, each person within those tribes has their own story, their own path, whether they were raised on a reservation or off.
For Cordelia Qiġñaaq Kellie (Iñupiat) and Meg Martin (Saint Regis Mohawk), the subjects of the documentary I Am Still Here, defining their Indigenous identity has been a journey that won’t be over once the end credits roll. It’s more complicated than that.