LibGuides UFV: Indigenous Studies: Videos

Selected Videos

Atanarjuat the Fast Runner by National Film Board of Canada
This adaptation of an ancient Inuit legend was filmed in Inuktitut and directed by Inuit filmmakers.
Blue eyed
Call Number: HT 1521 B58 2008 DVD
Cedar and bamboo
Call Number: FC 106 C55 C44 2010 DVD
Crude sacrifice: you can't reclaim humanity
Call Number: TD 195 O4 C78 2010 DVD
For the next 7 generations
Call Number: GE 195.7 F67 2009 DVD
The Impact of Colonialism in Canada by LeMay, Matt
This film explores the history and consequences of the Canadian Government attempting to assimilate Canada's Indigenous population. Topics include the Indian Act, the establishment of the Canadian Residential School system, broken treaty promises, and the 60's scoop. This video will educate the viewer as to why so many of Canada's First Nation communities face serious sociological and economic challenges.
The Red Dress by Scott, Michael
Renowned Métis author and screenwriter Maria Campbell explores themes of cultural identity, sexual assault and the familial impact of colonialism in The Red Dress, echoing the themes of her seminal memoir, Halfbreed.
Treaties, Reconciliation and Indigenous History in Canada by McCue, Duncan
How well do Canadians know Indigenous history? What role did treaties play in forming our country? Are the stories told through truth and reconciliation changing our understanding of Canadian history?
We Were Children by National Film Board of Canada
As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools. The trauma of this experience was made worse by years of untold physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult lives. In this emotional film, the profound impact of the Canadian government's residential school system is conveyed unflinchingly through the eyes of two children who were forced to face hardships beyond their years. We Were Children gives voice to a national tragedy and demonstrates the incredible resilience of the human spirit.

YouTube Channels

View videos from YouTube subsciber channels:

First Nations Health Council Youtube Channel
First Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture Council
National Aboriginal Health Organization
Assembly of First Nations Youtube Channel
Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Residential School survivor testimonials.

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Indigenous Peoples	Ethnology
Native Peoples	Racism

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Documentaries

The Oka Legacy by Bonspille-Boileau, Sonia
The Oka Legacy documentary explores how the Oka Crisis has transformed contemporary Indigenous identity in Canada.
Tracing Roots by Frankenstein, Ellen
The film follows master weaver and Haida elder Delores Churchill on a journey to understand the origins of a spruce root hat found with Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi, the Long Ago Person Found, a 300-year-old traveler discovered in Northern Canada in a retreating glacier. Delores's quest crosses cultures and borders, involving artists, scholars and scientists, raising questions about the meaning of connection, knowledge and ownership.
Birth of a Family by Hubbard, Tasha
Removed from their young Dene mother's care as part of Canada's infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either adopted into white families or to live in foster care. Now all in middle age, each has grown up in different circumstances, with different family cultures, different values and no shared memories.
The Road Forward by National Film Board of Canada
Marie Clements paints an electrifying picture of how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Native Sisterhood, became a powerful voice for social, political and legal advocacy, eventually effecting profound change at the national level.
A Tribe of One by National Film Board of Canada
'I will tell you once, but you must never ask me again.' With these words from her mother, Rhonda Larrabee discovered the startling truth about her family. She was not of Chinese and French descent, as she had been told while growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown. Rhonda's mother, Marie Lee, was First Nations, and was hiding her roots because of the prejudice she faced.
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance by National Film Board of Canada
On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Indigenous issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec, into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Director Alanis Obomsawin endured 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Québec police and the Canadian army. A powerful feature-documentary emerges that takes you right into the action of an age-old Indigenous struggle.
Pipeline Protests : Resource Development Challenges Indigenous Rights in B.C.. April 2020 by Serapio, Michael
In early 2020, Coastal GasLink started work on a 670-kilometre, multi-billion dollar pipeline project designed to move natural gas from the B.C Interior to the West Coast. That pipeline goes through the traditional territory of the Wet'suwet'en people. The company claimed it had authority from both the province and 20 First Nations band councils, including five Wet'suwet'en Nation band councils. Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, however, say they are the decision makers on natural resources on their lands and were not consulted.
Finding Dawn by Welsh, Christine
Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh brings us a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy – the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women's experience, from Vancouver's skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved.
The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters by Welsh, Christine
For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive sweaters are known and loved around the world, but the Indigenous women who make them remain largely invisible. Combining rare archival footage with the voices of three generations of woolworkers, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters tells the tale of unsung heroines--resourceful women who knit to put food on the table and keep their families alive. Written and directed by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, this is a story of courage and cultural transformation--a celebration of the threads that connect the past to the future.

Browse for Videos in the Library

Videos are shelved by call number; videos about indigenous studies are generally found in a variety of call numbers in the video collection:

E 75 - E 99	First Nations
FC 1 - FC 9999	Canadian History
GE 1 - GE 350	Environmental Sciences
GF 1 - GF 900	Human ecology. Anthrogeography
GF 75	Human Influences on the Environment
GF 125	Cities. Urban Geography
GE 1 - GE 350	Environmental Sciences
GN 1 - GN 9999	Anthropology
KE 1 - KE9999	Law of Canada