(Filmmaker in person)

Ella Rodriguez is a healing woman in two ways. She is a healer as she attends to the recuperation of an injured hummingbird and superintends the respectful treatment of ancestral sites in the path of development. Many decades after she was taken from her family and placed in an Indian boarding school, Ella also claims her power to heal herself from treatment which was anything but respectful. Her strength of being, both in her tenderness and her resilient toughness, is a marvel to witness.

(2008, 34 min.) – G.R.