Derrick LaMere

Derrick LaMere is an award winning Native American Filmmaker from Spokane Washington by way of the Colville Indian Reservation. 

His most recent documentary "Older Than The Crown", follows the trial of Sinixt tribal member Rick Desautel, who in 2010 was charged with hunting in Canada as a non resident and without a proper permit. Rick harvested an elk on the ancestral land of the Sinixt people in Vallican British Columbia, Canada. To the Sinixt, hunting on ancestral land is an aboriginal right gifted to them by Creator, and is a right that has legally been denied to the Sinixt people since 1956 when the Canadian government unjustly declared them extinct.

Derrick’s other major works include:

"United by Water", which focuses on the 5 tribes of the Upper Columbia River as they unite on the water in traditional canoes for the first time since the Grand Coulee Dam flooded their traditional waterways 76 years ago. This film has won numerous audience awards in the Short Documentary category. 

"The 7th Wave", which follows the Quinault Indian Nation as they host the 2013 coastal Canoe Journey on their traditional homeland, one of the largest canoe journey gatherings in recent memory. 

Based in the summer of 2016, "Makwa Jiimaan Deep Water Deep Roots" follows 6 Teme-Augama Anishnabai youth as they build a traditional Temagami Birch Bark Canoe on their homeland, N'Dakimenan. Over the course of 6 weeks, they were documented harvesting, preparing and building their canoe all on their traditional homeland. www.warponypictures.com