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A film about place, memory, and what it means to live together. In the coastal community widely known as Powell River, a request from the Tla’amin Nation sets off a public conversation. What happens when a place is asked to remember differently? Through interviews, archival records, oral histories, and community gatherings, təm kʷaθ nan (Namesake) follows the unfolding discussion around a possible name change for the city and the deeper question beneath it. Whose stories live in the place we call home?
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00:03Just as our place names carry the history of the land, the moon carries our teachings of time.
00:14Each moon has a name.
00:19And with these names come responsibilities.
00:23When to harvest, when to gather, and when to rest.
00:29The language of the land is not only in the rivers and mountains, but also written in the sky.
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