2000-148, 22 minutes, 2024 Rotshennón:ni Two-Axe and Kayla Spencer-Young are two Indigenous students studying science at Dawson College in Montreal. Kayla, who comes from a northern Cree community, knows how tough it is for Indigenous students, especially those from remote communities, to imagine themselves in the sciences so she and...
2000-147, 22 minutes, 2024 Hailey Rose is the Indigenous youth representative for the FSIN and the AFN, representing youth across Saskatchewan and Canada. The topic closest to her heart is mental health – and we see that in action at a dynamic wellness workshop where she helps teens balance all...
2000-146, 22 minutes, 2024 Dakota/Ojibwe warrior Isaac Garcia started “Isaac’s Blessing Bags” in elementary school to collect essentials for St. Paul, MN’s unsheltered population. Our host joins Isaac and family to prepare and distribute the bags and deliver hot meals. Request
2000-145, 22 minutes, 2024 Cole Clark is a Tlicho Dene warrior working at Home Base, an organization for at-risk and unhoused youth in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. A passion for playing sports got Cole through his own troubled adolescence and it’s this passion that he now loves sharing with the youth...
2000-144, 22 minutes, 2024 Tréchelle Bunn is a University of Manitoba hockey player whose life motto is “movement is medicine.” Normally that medicine takes the form of hockey practices and games, but the 200 unmarked graves found at Kamloops Residential School in 2021 pushed Trechelle, who is Dakota, to think...
2000-143, 22 minutes, 2024 Nevaeh Pine is a proud Ojibwe teen from Garden River First Nation who found her voice in public speaking competitions. She uses the platform to advocate for Indigenous issues, especially around awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirited People. Host Anna Lambe...
2000-142, 22 minutes, 2024 In this episode, host Joel Oulette travels to L’ilwat First Nation in British Columbia to meet a teen who seems to have come from another era.Talon Pascal has spent years learning ancient, nearly lost skills and arts. From hunting on horseback to building pit houses, flintknapping...
2000-141, 22 minutes, 2023 Spirit Bear is visiting Algonquin territory when he meets Jake, a friendly dog with a bag full of paper hearts attached to wood stakes. Jake tells Spirit Bear that school children and residential school survivors will plant the hearts when a big report on residential schools...
2000-140, 26 minutes, 2024 In Echoes of the Past Spirit Bear travels to Songhees and Esquimalt territories and witnesses a statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister, being removed from the steps of Victoria City Hall. Some people want to save the statue, and others are glad to see it...
2000-139, 719:25 minutes, 2023 The largest collection of her films on DVD to date, works selected for Alanis Obomsawin: A Legacy span five decades of socially engaged cinema, from her very first film at the NFB, 1971’s Christmas at Moose Factory, to four new works making their debut in this...
