Playlist: Family, Elders, and Stories from the Past

Duration: 24m 10s

In this weekly episode of 'Our Dene Elders' meet Nap Norbert.

Duration: 51m 23s

Ajainaa! features Igloolik Elders discussing their views of contemporary Inuit life. Topics include the role of Inuit and "Southern" forms of education, survival strategies (such as how to save a drowning victim), and the differences between camp and settlement life. Written, produced, and performed by Isuma's Uqallangniq Elders Group.

Duration: 48m 11s

The six aboriginal Australian Warrell sisters are part of the generation of stolen children who were taken from their parents and raised in a Benedictine mission to alienate them from their indigenous culture in an attempt to better assimilate them into white society.

Duration: 46m 34s

Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond team up to research the events and historical impacts of an 18th century conflict between Inuit and Cree in Northern Québec, and to bring people together finally in 2013.

Inuit Cree Reconciliation, Kingulliit Productions, NITV 2013, Directors Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond. Inuktut, Cree, English w/English s-t.

Duration: 6m 19s

This interview with Mohawk elder Cecilia Mitchell, is from the Circle of All Nations in Maniwaki in August 2003.

Filmmaker: Brian Sarwer-Foner and SunBow

Filmmaker Contact:

ironwood_log@yahoo.ca

Producer's Name: Ironwood Log Project

Year of Production: 2003

Duration: 11m 15s

Elder Bob Campbell, Sinixt Nation

(Note: the ridge where this video was taken two days ago is now on fire)

Duration: 21m 20s

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

Duration: 21m 24s

Duration: 3m 32s

Emile Immaroitok talks to anthropologist Bernard Saladin d'Anglure in the 1970's, 3:32 ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in Inuktitut and in English, with French sub-titles.

Duration: 43m 9s

Synopsis: At age thirty-five, 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 own file.

Duration: 46m 22s

Rooted in tradition, adoption is a reality that all Inuit families have experienced. In Inuit culture, adopting a child from a relative, friend or acquaintance is a common practice. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, the adoptive mother of Alexandre Apak, lived in Igloolik, a small island southwest of Baffin Island in the Arctic, for many years.

Duration: 41m 16s

Duration: 29m 40s

Synopsis: At the 1956 gathering of the Blood Indians of Alberta, the exciting spectacle of the Sun Dance was captured on film for the first time.

Duration: 48m 2s

In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the ancestors who came before them: a wedding; a burial; messages from the past.

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Duration: 3m 47s

Synopsis: The Visit tells the true story of a Cree family's strange encounter one winter night, which results in a conversation beyond words.

Filmmaker: Lisa Jackson

Contact: National Film Board of Canada and APTN

Producer: Selwyn Jacob

Year of Production: 2009

Distributor Information: National Film Board of Canada and APTN

Country: Canada

Duration: 3m 12s

Synopsis: This whimsical animation, reminiscent of NFB classics, follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in the woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world.

Duration: 3m 10s

Synopsis: This animated short, inspired by the Mi'kmaq legend, "The Stone Canoe" explores aboriginal humour. We follow Little Thunder as he reluctantly leaves his family and sets out on a cross-country canoe trip to become a man.

Duration: 21m 37s

Duration: 48m 16s

In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.

Duration: 22m 23s

Duration: 31m 48s

Filmed by Collective9

Filmmaker: Noeline Villebrun

Filmmaker Contact:

collective9@gmail.com or info@isuma.tv

Producer's Name: Isuma

Year of Production: 2007

Distributor Information:

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Duration: 36m 31s

Filmed by Collective9

Filmmaker: Noeline Villebrun

Filmmaker Contact:

collective9@gmail.com or info@isuma.tv

Producer's Name: Isuma

Year of Production: 2007

Distributor Information:

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Duration: 28m 51s

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2000
DURATION: 29 min
GENRE: Docu-drama
FORMAT: Video (colour)
LANGUAGE: Inuktitut, Eng/Fr s-t
DIRECTORS: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Helene Cousineau
PRODUCER: Arnait Video Productions
SOUND: Pacome Qudlaut
CAMERA: Marie Helene Cousineau

Duration: 50m 45s

Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands.

Duration: 42m 41s

Click 'Read More' for English Translation of Louie Uttak Testimony by Peter Irniq, February 2009

Duration: 1h 3m 1s

Rosemary Kuptana's residential school survivor testimony. In English.

Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk

Year of Production: 2008

Country: Canada

Region: NorthWest Territories

Duration: 46m 50s

Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.