8TH FIRE: ABORIGINAL PEOPLES, CANADA & THE WAY FORWARD

2000-77, 4 episodes approx. 4 hours, 2012 8th Fire is a provocative, high energy journey through Aboriginal country showing why we urgently need to fix Canada’s 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples. Hosted by the dynamic journalist and musician, Wab Kinew, from the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation. Request

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MOHAWK WISDOM KEEPERS

2000-74, 43 minutes, 2010 All of the Mohawk leaders agree that our sacred mother earth is in great danger from environmental destruction and tare sharing their wisdom that we the humans have a sacred duty to protect, honor and give thanks for the sacred gifts that our great Creator has...

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FOSTER CHILD

2000-73, 43 minutes, 1987 Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his coming into foster care as an infant. “Foster Child” is a documentary – unstaged and unrehearsed—about the process of that discovery, beginning with his fruitless attempt to see his...

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NIIGAANIBATOWAAD: Front Runners

2000-71, 47 mintues, 2007 In 1967 when Winnipeg first hosted the Pan American Games, ten outstanding athletic teenage boys were chosen to run 800 kilometers over an ancient message route with the Games torch. When the runners arrived at the stadium, they were not allowed to enter with the torch....

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KEEPERS OF THE FIRE

2000-70, 54 minutes, 1994 “Keepers of the Fire” profiles Canada’s Native “warrior women” who are protecting and defending their land, their culture and their people in time-honored tradition of their foremothers. Request

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THE SPIRIT OF ANNIE MAE

2000-69, 73 minutes, 2002 This film is the story of Annie Mae Aquash’s remarkable life and her brutal murder. It is a moving tribute from the women who were closest to her. All are still trying to understand why she met such a violent death. Follow them on their journey...

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