2000-59, 45 minutes, 2006 On June 11th and 20th, 1981, the Quebec Provincial Police raided Restigouche Reserve, Quebec. At issue were salmon-fisihing rights of the Micmac people. Because salmon has traditionally been a source of food and income for the Micmacs, the Quebec government’s decision to restrict fishing aroused consternation...
2000-58, 5 minutes, animated Follow an urban youth as he heads down the mystical Red Road, where the sweet grass grows, to re-connect and be inspired by new and traditional elements of First Nations culture. Request
2000-57, 56 minutes, 2008 While Mohawk high steel workers were building Manhattan’s iconic skyscrapers, Mohawk women kept their feet firmly on the ground – sustaining a vibrant community in the heart of Brooklyn. With Little Caughnawaga, filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell evokes the neighbourhood’s heyday, from the 1920’s to the 60’s, and...
2000-56, 18 minutes, 2007 Sébastien Aubin, a young French-speaking Cree of Manitoba’s Opaskwayak Nation, is learning about traditional Aboriginal medicine. Mark Thompson is a healer who received his knowledge of plant-based medicine from his grandmother and has chosen to teach Sébastien. The young man embodies today’s accelerated world but is...
2000-55, 78 minutes, 2008 In Club Native, filmmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawake, her hometown, as a lens to probe deeply into the history and contemporary reality of Aboriginal identity. Following the stories of four women, she reveals the exclusionary attitudes that divide the community and many others like it across...
2000-54, 40 minutes, 2008 Features films Walking Alone, Two Spirited, His Guidance and Hooked Up: NDNs Online by emerging filmmakers Gerald Auger, Sharon A. Desjarlasi, Duane Linklater and Jennifer Dysart. Request
2000-53, 93 minutes, 2007 This eye-opening documentary presents a gripping history lesson and paints an alarming portrait of a nation reduced to 9,000 people spread out in about 10 communities. For centuries, the Algonquin lived on a vast territory that met all their needs. Today they have reached a crossroads....
2000-52, 72 minutes, 2007 This is the dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families. But much more than that, it is the journey of a cross-cultural adoptee who struggles to find balance between families’ different ethnicities and traditions, and to discover how he fits into each world....
2000-51, 24 minutes, 2007 Eugene “Gene Boy” Benedict left home at age 15 to work in construction in New York state and at 17 enlisted in the U.S. Marines. This film is the harrowing and deeply moving story of his two years of service in Vietnam and his long journey...
2000-50, 50 minutes, 2006 This film is a humbling portrait of what it must feel like to be the object of white society’s gaze. Fresh and original, this documentary has that rare ability to educate with wit. Request
