Today, we’re diving into a moving and visually stunning new documentary that challenges, redefines, and reclaims what it means to be a man, specifically, a Blackfoot man.
In Siksikakowan: The Blackfoot Man, filmmaker and storyteller Trevor Solway returns to his home community of Siksika Nation to explore Indigenous masculinity through quiet, intimate conversations with fathers, sons, DJs, artists, and athletes.
Set against the vast and beautiful backdrop of the Prairies, the film unpacks ideas of strength, vulnerability, kinship, and cultural identity.
Trevor joined us to talk about the journey behind the project, the power of representation, and how storytelling can open space for healing and reflection.
Short Synopsis
What does it mean to be a (Native) man? In Siksikakowan, Calgary-based director Sinakson Trevor Solway returns to his home nation of Siksika to reveal a rarely seen portrait of Indigenous masculinity set against the sweeping backdrop of the Prairies. Winner of the Audience Choice Feature Award at imagineNATIVE.
Themes: Masculinity, Indigenous life, Blackfoot culture, Siksika Nation, identity, kinship, expectations of manhood, self-discovery, love, Prairies, cinema vérité,
The director lives on Siksika First Nation.
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