TIME OF PROPHECY:

Walking in the Prayers of Our Ancestors

A film by Christopher Peters and Audrey Kitagawa

Produced by

In our language and in prayer, we call her Ishkemón, or Grandmother. She is all things to us. She gives us a place to live. She provides us with the Water of Life. The air we breathe. The warmth to make life grow and the light that keeps us all warm.

And it saddens me to see the kind of desecration that has occurred and is continuing to occur.

– Ho’e-oesta-oo-nah’e (Prayer Cloth Woman)

Henrietta Mann, Ph.D
Tsetsehestaestse (Cheyenne)

TIME OF PROPHECY: Walking in the Prayers of our Ancestors (2023) is a documentary film featuring Indigenous wisdom, experience, and cultural knowledge in the context of COVID-19, climate change, and Indigenous Peoples’ healing and futurity.

Co-Directed by Audrey Kitagawa and Chris Peters, the film was produced by the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation and Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples.

Runtime: 30 minutes.

World Premiere at UNPFII23

TIME OF PROPHECY: Walking in the Prayers of Our Ancestors premiered on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.

The premiere was a special side event to the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, focusing on the Forum’s 2023 theme: Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach.

Seventh Generation Fund President Chris Peters (at podium) moderates a conversation with (l-r) Board members Dr. Henrietta Mann (Board Chair), Helene Gaddie, Deborah Sanchez, and Brian Monongye.

(Photo Credit: International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation)

Go here for more images from the world premiere event.

Special Preview Screening and Discussion

On March 16, 2023, a virtual preview of the film was held, sponsored by the G20 Interfaith Forum’s Anti-Racism Initiative, in cooperation with the International Academy of Multicultural Cooperation and the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples.

The screening included a discussion with:

• Dr. Henrietta Mann (Tsetsehestaestse Cheyenne), Board Chair at the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
• Helene Gaddie (Oglala Lakota), Board Member of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
• Brian Monongye (Hopi), Board Member of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
• Audrey E. Kitagawa [moderator], Founder and President of the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, Chair of the G20 Interfaith Forum Anti-Racism Initiative, and Co-Director of TIME OF PROPHECY: Walking in the Prayers of our Ancestors

For more, read this G20 Interfaith Forum “Viewpoints” blog post on the film and panel.

Please let us know if you’d like to schedule a screening of the film. You can reach us here.