![]() She is a Circle Keeper and has been featured on WBUR (Boston) and PRI/BBC’s The World. Mishy has authored Upstander Project’s many learning and viewer guides. Mishy Lesser, Ed.D., is the learning director for Upstander Project and an Emmy® award-winning researcher. Dawn has served as the Wabanaki Liaison to the Maine Independent Green Party since 2016 and was the Vice Presidential Candidate to the Dario Hunter 2020 Presidential campaign. She is a Racial Justice Consultant to the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine a member of Racial Equity & Justice of Bangor and a former Indigenous Peoples' Policy Advisor for the Hunter/Elias 2020 Presidential campaign. Dawn is actively involved in politics for change across a wide spectrum of influences. ![]() Since then, she has been a tireless advocate for environmental justice and Indigenous rights at the tribal, local, state, and national levels. Her grassroots environmental activism began with the protection of Indigenous Sacred sites in Huntington Beach, California in 1998. We exercise our power by sharing the horrors of this hard history as an act of resistance, remembrance, and a step toward justice.ĭawn Neptune Adams is a filmmaker and journalist with Sunlight Media Collective, and co-director of and a participant in Bounty. In BOUNTY we step into the future together with our children into the colonizer’s hall of injustice, to read their hateful words and tell the truth about what was done to our ancestors. We know this to be true, and the science now affirms that trauma can be passed down from generation to generation. The memory of being hunted is in our blood. Bounty proclamations like this, some even paid in stolen land, persisted for more than two centuries across what is now the United States. It declared our people enemies and offered different prices for the scalps of children, women, and men. This abhorrent proclamation, made in 1755 by the colonial government, paid settlers handsomely to murder Penobscot people. ![]() For this film, we bring our families to Boston to read our ancestors’ death warrant. The following synopsis of the film is by Dawn Neptune Adams, Maulian Dana, Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip, and Tracy Rector: Following the film, participant Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot) and Upstander Project learning director Mishy Lesser will open a conversation. Join Maine Historical Society in person to see Upstander Project's short film BOUNTY.
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