
Film is a mirror: Sealaska shareholder descendant Miciana Hutcherson reflects on Black History Month
On Monday, Jan. 20, ‘Fancy Dance’—a film about matrilineal love and the complexities of familyand care in Indigenous communities—premiered at Eccles Theater at the Sundance FilmFestival in Park City, Utah. Sealaska shareholder and descendant Miciana Áak’w Ta Sháa Alise co-wrote the film alongsideSeneca–Cayuga filmmaker Erica Tremblay, who recently worked as a writer and executivestory editor on Reservation Dogs at FX. ‘Fancy Dance’ confronts real and painful issues facing Indigenous women and families, but italso focuses on joy and happiness, which