Reaghan Tarbell
TFI Support
Tribeca All Access® 2006
About
Reaghan Tarbell is from the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve just outside of Montreal, Quebec. She has co-directed and co-written, along with Paul Rickard, two episodes of the TV series Finding Our Talk: A Journey into Aboriginal Languages. Reaghan also worked as a researcher on Aboriginal Architecture: Living Architecture which was recently broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). In 2005 she received a Canada Council for the Arts Aboriginal Media Arts Grant for research and development of an hour long documentary Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back. For the past year and a half she has been working as a Program Assistant at the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
At the beginning of the century a number of Mohawk ironworkers and their families moved to Brooklyn and created a thriving community. This is the story of one girl’s Mohawk grandmother and the parallels she draws between both of their lives.