I've Got Your Back
A poem of Indigenous solidarity in the Black Lives Matter movement. Released August 9th 2016, marking both World Indigenous Day and the two year anniversary of the shooting death Michael Brown by Ferguson police.
Film, music, and poem by Eva Louise Grant with assistance from Kiri Ngawati
Filmed on Songhees and Squamish Territory
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