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Plot Many Native people come to Montréal searching for jobs and a better life. They come without money, without friends, without jobs, and very quickly become part of the homeless population...

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Cast Alanis Obomsawin · Guy Nadon

Plot This feature documentary profiles a key element of the 1990 Oka crisis in which the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake stood against the Canadian military and Canadian citizens in...

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Plot A look at the efforts involved with decolonizing Manitoba's First Nation communities.

Direction Alanis Obomsawin

Plot This film documents the 1990 crisis when Native Americans of the Mohawk Nation blocked access to reserve land which was being appropriated against their will by the White community of...

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Plot On June 11 and 20, 1981, the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raided Restigouche Reserve. At issue were the salmon-fishing rights of the Mi´gmaq people. Because salmon has traditionally been a...

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Plot Portrait of Canadian artist Bill Reid.

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Plot Activists file a human-rights complaint against the Canadian government's inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children claiming it's discriminatory.

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Cast Theresa Spence · Stan Louttit · Perry Bellegarde · Tony Belcourt

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Cast Alanis Obomsawin

Plot Activists file a human-rights complaint against the Canadian government's inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children claiming it's discriminatory.

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Cast Alanis Obomsawin

Plot Jordan River Anderson spent the first five years of life in hospital. He could have been home at two.

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Plot This documentary exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat's band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help....

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Plot Internationally acclaimed filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the Attawapiskat First Nations campaign to draw global attention to the Canadian government’s neglect of Aboriginal youth...

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Cast Alanis Obomsawin · Arthur Holden · Tony Robinow

Plot A feature documentary offering a gripping portrait of the Esgenoopetitj Mi'gmaq First Nation during the summer of 2000 as the Canadian government appears to wage war on the community for...