The Legacy of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Based on the Christian belief that we're all called to heaven, this video highlights the challenged and short life of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Algonquin-Mohawk Indian holy woman, while noting that many other Native Americans ended their lives in a holy way as well. With archival photographs, primarily from Marquette University, it chronicles her life and the efforts to canonize her with highlights about her Indian devotees from many tribes and life-ways, from voyageurs to high-steel walkers and housewives to priests and nuns, and the Tekakwitha Conference. It concludes at her canonization ceremony in Rome with a Lakota Sioux elder who hopes that his grandfather, the holy man Nicholas Black Elk, will be canonized someday as well.