Hosted by Revolutionary Spaces in collaboration with Upstander Project
Showing daily at the Old State House starting July 1
Bounty captures Penobscot families reading and reacting to bounty proclamations that incentivized the scalping of Indigenous people. Filmed in the Old State House, where many of these laws were signed, the film confronts the brutal realities of colonization and honors the enduring resistance and survival of Indigenous communities.
Showing daily at the Old State House starting July 1, Revolutionary Spaces is honored to work in partnership with Upstander Project to build awareness of these atrocious genocidal laws to support truth-telling for Native and non-Native peoples.
In Bounty, Penobscot parents and children resist erasure and commemorate survival by reading and reacting to one of the dozens of government-issued bounty proclamations that motivated colonial settlers to hunt, capture, kill, and scalp Indigenous people. Many of these laws were signed in the room where this film was made, the council chamber of the Old State House.
Scalping people for cash rewards and land is a devastating idea and shocking practice, essential to how the United States became a nation, built on top of hundreds of Indigenous nations who thrived here for millennia before Europeans invaded these shores.
Bounty is a filmic testimony of the immeasurable resistance and survivance of Indigenous Peoples. The film is the cornerstone of this media ecosystem which invites us all to face stories of the incalculable loss, suffering, and unacknowledged trauma inflicted upon Indigenous People by settlers, past and present.
