DEAN'S PUBLIC LECTURE - JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025 6:00PM
FREE EVENT *Tickets are Required
Presented by Faculty of Social Science and Humanities in Association with Indigenous Education and Cultural Services and Carpenters Union, Local Unit 397
Join us for an evening with Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Julian Brave NoiseCat.
NoiseCat has been described as one of today's most powerful young writers. He will talk about first book "We Survived the Night". The book brings to life the traditional art form of the "Coyote Story," a tale about a legendary trickster who was the forefather of NoiseCat's people. The book weaves together Indigenous oral history, journalistic accounts of North America’s First Peoples, and a gripping family memoir about NoiseCat's own complex relationship with his father. Confronting colonial erasure with powerful storytelling, NoiseCat revisits the past and braids together new stories.
NoiseCat also co-directed Sugarcane (2024), his debut documentary which follows the Williams Lake First Nation’s investigation of the Saint Joseph Indian residential school in British Columbia. Sugarcane was nominated for an Oscar and a Peabody award, and NoiseCat and co-director Emily Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
Recommended Age: 14+
Age Restriction: 2+
FREE EVENT *Tickets are Required
Presented by Faculty of Social Science and Humanities in Association with Indigenous Education and Cultural Services and Carpenters Union, Local Unit 397
Join us for an evening with Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Julian Brave NoiseCat.
NoiseCat has been described as one of today's most powerful young writers. He will talk about first book "We Survived the Night". The book brings to life the traditional art form of the "Coyote Story," a tale about a legendary trickster who was the forefather of NoiseCat's people. The book weaves together Indigenous oral history, journalistic accounts of North America’s First Peoples, and a gripping family memoir about NoiseCat's own complex relationship with his father. Confronting colonial erasure with powerful storytelling, NoiseCat revisits the past and braids together new stories.
NoiseCat also co-directed Sugarcane (2024), his debut documentary which follows the Williams Lake First Nation’s investigation of the Saint Joseph Indian residential school in British Columbia. Sugarcane was nominated for an Oscar and a Peabody award, and NoiseCat and co-director Emily Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
Recommended Age: 14+
Age Restriction: 2+
JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT is a writer, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards, and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary, Sugarcane, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
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