We trust artists like Michelle Latimer to avoid harming Indigenous people We trust artists like Michelle Latimer to avoid harming Indigenous people Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers explains the particular kind of pain revelations about Michelle Latimer have caused within the Indigenous film community By Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Samuel Engelking Trickster and Inconvenient Indian director Michelle Latimer poses on top of a condo rooftop in Toronto. We were gathered for a filmmaking workshop at the Urban Native Youth Association in East Vancouver. I was co-facilitating with filmmaker Jessica Hallenbeck. One participant was that particular kind of shy brown-skinned Indigenous teenage boy who didn’t yet know his worth in this world. He wore sweatpants, a hoodie and sneakers, and had a head of thick black hair. He was afraid to smile, much less make eye contact with the other teens in the room.