Stories I Didn't Know

[Plays June 25-28 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Rita Davern and Melody Gilbert's captivating, eye-opening, informative, 73-minute, 2020, historical documentary that uses archival film footage and photographs and interview snippets with native American historian Ramona Kitto Stately, Irish best friend Anne Hynes, the Indian Land Tenure Foundation president and founder Cris Stainbrook, and musician Rueben Kitto Stately to chronicle Rita Davern's, who grew up in St. Paul, Minn., search for her Irish roots and after learning more about her connection to Pike Island, which is situated where the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers merge and her great grandfather once bought and sold, she struggled with not being able to return ownership of Pike Island to the Dakota Indians.
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