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ABORIGINALITYMeet world champion hoop dancer and hip hop artist Dallas Arcand, who is connecting urban First Nations youth to their rural ancestral histories. Arcand is a seventh generation First Nations Canadian from the Alexander (Kipohtakaw) Plains Cree Nation. Many believe the seventh generation will bring positive change to the world, and in Aboriginality, which fuses anima-tion with live-action dance, the power and spirit of culture sweep across time and space. | Directors: Dominique Keller, Tom Jackson and Dan Gies, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2007 (14 min)

Additional footage and an in-depth interview with world champion hoop dancer Dallas Arcand.

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I CAN MAKE ART ... LIKE ANDREW QAPPIK Andrew Qappik is a world-renowned Inuit printmaker from Pangnirtung, Nunavut. In this film, he captivates his student audience by creating a soapstone relief print before their very eyes. Then it’s the kids’ turn. Imbued with a deep appreciation for life in the North, I Can Make Art . . . Like Andrew Qappik of-fers an intimate look at a rarely seen and truly magical creative process. | Director: Jane Churchill | 2005 (11 min)

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WAPOS BAY (SERIES 3)Wapos Bay is a light-hearted, stop-motion animation series that follows the adventures of three children from a Cree community in northern Saskatchewan. Available in English, in a French-dubbed version, as well as a Cree-dubbed version with En-glish subtitles. | Director: Dennis Jackson, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2010 (6 x 24 min)

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FOR ANGELAGold Apple Award Category: Classroom Social Studies – 1996 National Educational Media Network Competition, Oakland (USA) A dramatic story of racism and empowerment, inspired by the experience of Rhonda Gordon and her daughter Angela, whose lives were changed by a bus ride. When three boys harass them, Rhonda finds the courage and determination to take a powerful stand against ignorance and prejudice. A great discussion-starter on racism and its impact. | Directors: Nancy Trites Botkin and Daniel Prouty, Aboriginal filmmakers | 1993 (24 min)

$69.95 10+CITIZENSHIP/POLITICS – DISCRIMINATION

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I CAN MAKE ART ... LIKE RON NOGANOSHRon Noganosh is a highly regarded sculptor and installation artist who transforms everyday items—rusted hubcaps, com-puter parts, feathers—into artworks that are at once funny, imaginative and thought-provoking. Conveying a strong sense of respect for the environment and for cultural identity, this film offers kids a new way to create art and make powerful statements about their world. | Director: Jane Churchill | 2005 (15 min)

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WHEN ALL THE LEAVES ARE GONEInspired by the personal experiences of writer and director Alanis Obomsawin, the film combines autobiography, fiction and fable to create a deeply moving story about the power of dreams. As the only First Nations student in an all-white school in the 1940s, eight-year-old Wato is keenly aware of the hostil-ity towards her. Alone in her suffering, she finds solace and strength in the protective world of her magical dreams. English, French, Wabanaki, Atikamekw, Innu and Inuktitut versions. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2011 (17 min)

One special presentation DVD – A discussion of the film

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HOW PEOPLE GOT FIREIn the village of Carcross, in the Tagish First Nation, Grandma Kay invites the local children into her kitchen and tells them the traditional tale of how Crow brought fire to people. Here, in the heart of the community’s spiritual and cultural memory, past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire infuses all. | Director: Daniel Janke | 2009 (16 min)

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MAQ AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WOODSThe story of Maq, a Mi’kmaq boy who realizes his potential with the help of some inconspicuous mentors. Mi’kmaq folklorist Gilbert Sewell reprises his role as storyteller in this animated tale about Creation and discovering resources within to help build self-confidence and strength. | Director: Phyllis Grant, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2007 (8 min)

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SCHOOL ON THE MOVE Merit Award for Educational Value – 2008 Montana CINE International Film Festival Instead of going away to school, Evenk children in remote southeastern Siberia have the school brought to them! An-thropologist Alexandra Lavrillier is fighting alongside the Evenk people to save their heritage. School on the Move travels with her to the taiga where this nomadic people live. Here she has helped set up a mobile school to give Evenk children the chance to receive a modern education without having to sacrifice their ancestral traditions. In French and Evenki with English subtitles. | Director: Michel Debats | 2008 (50 min)

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360 DEGREESBest Short Documentary – 2008 Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba, has begun an apprenticeship in tra-ditional Aboriginal medicine. Mark Thompson is the healer who has chosen to teach Sébastien. The backdrop to this transfer of knowledge between the generations is today’s accelerated world, embodied by Sébastien, who is caught between modernity and tradition. In French with English subtitles. | Director: Caroline Monnet, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2008 (18 min)

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BETWEEN TWO WORLDSJoseph Idlout was once the world’s most famous Inuit. He became a symbol of his people, the heroic myth that fascinated the white imagination. In this film, Idlout’s son, Peter Paniloo, takes us on a journey through his father’s life. Idlout gets caught up in the white world, trying to improve his family’s fortunes, and ultimately loses sight of who he is and where he belongs. | Director: Barry Greenwald | 1990 (57 min)

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FINDING DAWN Gold Audience Award – 2006 Amnesty International Film Festival, Vancouver Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past 30 years. This documentary puts a human face on this national tragedy. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. | Director: Christine Welsh, Métis film-maker | 2006 (74 min)

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ARCTIC CIRCLEClimate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than any other region on Earth. This is where the impact of human activ-ity—sensitive ecosystems forever altered by climate change—is felt the most. Shot in HD, in some of the world’s most desolate and stunning locations, Arctic Circle marries dramatic footage with hard science and striking computer graphics to tell the story of climate change. | Directors: Wally Longul and Takashi Shibasaki | 2009 (81 min)

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CBQMMore than a radio station, Fort McPherson’s citizen-run CBQM is a vital expression of cultural resilience—plus it plays the best old time country music in the Mackenzie Delta. CBQM is a tip of the hat to the “Moccasin Telegraph” and the Teetl’it Gwich’in people who sustain it. | Director: Dennis Allen, Aboriginal film-maker | 2010 (66 min)

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FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIEVIFF Environmental Film Audience Award – 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival Award-winning director Sturla Gunnarsson presents a biography of ideas featuring iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcast-er and activist David Suzuki. At 73 years of age, Suzuki delivers what he describes as “a last lecture—a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die.” | Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | 2010 (92 min)

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ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNERCamera d’Or for Best First Feature Film – 2001 Cannes Film Festival This dramatization of an Inuit legend was filmed in Inuktitut and directed by Inuit filmmakers, making it the first feature film of its kind. The Arctic saga follows a small community of nomadic Inuit who become divided by an evil shaman. Jealousy leads to murder and a daring escape, with Atanarjuat running naked over the ice. In Inuktitut with English subtitles. Widescreen format. | Director: Zacharias Kunuk, Inuit filmmaker | 2000 (168 min)

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CHIEFS (SERIES)This series relates the saga of five great First Nations chiefs: Sitting Bull, Pontiac, Joseph Brant, Black Hawk and Poundmaker. Their stories form a central drama in the history of the North American continent. Their living descendants are the storytell-ers. By blending documentary and re-enactment, the episodes reveal an alternative and essential history of Canada and the United States. | Directors: Brian McKenna and Gil Cardinal, Métis filmmaker | 2002 (6 X 47 min)

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THE GIFT OF DIABETESBest Public Service Award – 2005 Annual American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco When Aboriginal filmmaker Brion Whitford found out he had Type 2 diabetes, he was overwhelmed by the medications pre-scribed. Brion believed that the answers might lie elsewhere, in traditional Native healing practices. On his journey, he tries to understand why this disease has become an epidemic afflicting Native people. | Directors: John Paskievich and O. Brion Whitford, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2005 (58 min)

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THE INVISIBLE NATIONThe Algonquin once lived in harmony with the vast territory they occupied. This balance was upset when the Europeans arrived in the 16th century. Gradually, the Algonquin’s traditions were undermined and their natural resources plundered. Today, barely 9,000 Algonquin are left. They live in about 10 communities, often enduring abject poverty and human rights violations. In French with English subtitles. | Directors: Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie | 2008 (97 min)

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MANAWANNow remastered on DVD, Manawan was originally part of film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s 1972 educational kit, which chal-lenged official colonial history and placed the Atikamekw people at the centre of their own story. The film is driven by the activist principles that distinguish Obomsawin’s entire body of work. In Attikamek, French and English. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (63 min) | Remastered version

A booklet containing a brief history of Manawan (in At-tikamek, French and English)

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PASSAGEGrand Prize for Best Canadian Production – 2009 Banff World Television Festival It was news that shook the English-speaking world. British ex-plorer Sir John Franklin and his crew had perished while trying to find the Northwest Passage. The report came in 1851 from John Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and did not sit well with Sir John’s widow. A bitter public cam-paign discredited Rae’s version of events and marked an entire nation of northern Inuit with the horrifying label of murderous cannibals. | Director: John Walker | 2008 (108 min)

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L’IL’WATAL’il’wata is an important account of Lil’wat culture and traditions. Challenging official historical accounts that denied Aboriginal people their own voice, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin worked with members of the Lil’wat First Nation to tell their own stories about residential school life, ancestral puberty rites and tra-ditional economic practices. In Ucwalmícwts, English and French. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (55 min) | Remastered version

A booklet containing a brief history of L’il’wata (in Ucwalmícwts, English and French)

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MARTHA OF THE NORTHIn the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadian history’s most sombre and little-known episodes. English, French and Inuktitut versions. | Director: Marquise Lepage | 2008 (83 min)

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QIMMIT: A CLASH OF TWO TRUTHSRigoberta Menchu Second Prize – 2010 First Peoples’ Festival (Land InSights), Montreal For the Inuit, the sled dog symbolized a way of life as well as a deep connection to the land. But from the 1950s to the 1970s, the sled dog population dropped from an estimated 20,000 to just a few hundred dogs. Qimmit: A Clash of Two Truths explores the mystery of how and why the sled dogs disappeared, a mys-tery that has left deep wounds across Canada’s Arctic. English, French and Inuktitut versions. | Directors: Ole Gjerstad and Joelie Sanguya | 2010 (120 min)

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LITTLE CAUGHNAWAGA: TO BROOKLYN AND BACK Best Feature Documentary – 2008 Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg 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. In Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back, filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell evokes the neighbourhood’s heyday, from the 1920s to the 60s, and salutes the resilient spirit of her fellow Mohawks. | Director: Reaghan Tarbell, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (70 min)

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NORTHERN GREETINGSIn the early 1970s, the James Bay project forever changed the landscape, and people’s lives. To carry out this megaproject, one village was created (Radisson) and another moved (Fort George). Radisson’s inhabitants are still tempted to move back down south; and while the Cree of Chisasibi (formerly Fort George) look to the future, they also want to maintain their traditions—especially for the benefit of their youth, who are strongly enticed by the modern world. In French with English subtitles. | Director: Benoît Pilon | 2007 (92 min)

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REEL INJUN: ON THE TRAIL OF THE HOLLYWOOD INDIANCanada Award – 2010 Gemini Awards, Toronto Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insight-ful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Aboriginals throughout a century of cinema. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people, from the silent film era to today. | Director: Neil Diamond, Aboriginal filmmaker | 2009 (88 min)

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RICHARD CARDINAL: CRY FROM A DIARY OF A MÉTIS CHILDA moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984 at the age of 17. He had been taken from his home at the age of four because of family problems and spent the rest of his short life moving in and out of 28 foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta. A sensi-tive, articulate young man, Richard Cardinal left behind a diary upon which this film is based. | Director: Alanis Obomsawin, Aboriginal filmmaker | 1986 (29 min)

$69.95 15+HEALTH & MEDICINE – MENTAL HEALTH

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VISTASSome of Canada’s finest Aboriginal filmmakers—hailing from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia—come together in this collection of 13 short films on the subject of nationhood. A compellingly diverse mix of animation and docu-mentary. | Compilation – Aboriginal filmmakers | 2010 (47 min)

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SECOND STORIESFollowing on the heels of the enormously successful First Stor-ies project, which produced three separate collections of short films, Second Stories was designed to give Aboriginal film-makers the means to share stories that have a deep significance for them and their communities. The compilation features the shorts Honour Thy Father, It Had to Be Done and Deb-we-win Ge-kend-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle. | Directors: Gerald Auger, Tessa Desnomie and Lorne Olson, Aboriginal filmmakers | 2010 (3 x 22 min)

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WAPIKONI – ENCOUNTER IN KITCISAKIKWapikoni – Encounter in Kitcisakik documents a visit by the Wapikoni Mobile, the celebrated studio on wheels, which, for the past six years, has travelled through Aboriginal communities in Quebec providing production training to youth. Viewers accom-pany the Wapikoni Mobile team and young Algonquin singers and filmmakers into a world steeped in history, a place where the landscape’s wild beauty contrasts with human misery and decay. In French and Algonquin with English subtitles. | Director: Mathieu Vachon | 2010 (72 min)

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SIX MILES DEEPColin Low Award for Most Innovative Canadian Documentary – DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver February 28, 2006. Members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) blockade a highway near Caledonia, Ontario, to prevent a hous-ing development on land in their traditional territories. Their actions are led and supported by the Haudenosaunee clan moth-ers. They rally their community, demand recognition on their own terms—and lead a cultural reawakening in their tradition-ally matriarchal society. | Director: Sara Roque | 2010 (43 min)

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WAR OF 1812 (SERIES)The War of 1812 is a four-part documentary series that brings to life an extraordinary, but not well-understood, conflict that decided the fate of North America, confirmed the creation of Canada and annihilated for all time the dream of an indepen dent Native nation. | Director: Brian McKenna | 1998 (4 x 52 min)

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NEW BOX SETUNIKKAUSIVUT: SHARING OUR STORIESUnikkausivut is the National Film Board of Canada’s Inuit audiovisual legacy initiative, and an unprecedented resource. This collection of films is the largest of its kind in the world. Discover the Inuit way of life, their perspectives and values, in films representing all four Canadian Inuit regions. Some of these works are now available to all Canadians in this box set of 24 films, in Inuktitut, English and French. | 2011 (488 min)

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