Beans
Mar 30 2021
•2h 32m
•Drama
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
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Kiawentiio
Beans / Tekahentahkhwa
Rainbow Dickerson
Lily
Violah Beauvais
Ruby
Paulina Alexis
April
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