Alanis Obomsawin Filmes

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the...

Atikamekw elder Cézar Néwashish continues to recount the history of the community of Manawan that first began in The History of...

Mohawk Chief John Norton and 80 Grand River warriors hold off American soldiers until reinforcements arrive and the Battle of Queenston Heights is...

Expert fishers for their entire lives, Líl̓wat Elders Cora and Daniel Wells share their deep knowledge of salmon fishing, cleaning and...

This film is an album of Native womanhood, portraying a proud matriarchal society that for centuries has been pressured to adopt different standards...

Documentary on Treaty No. 5.

As the only First Nations student in an all-white 1940s school, eight-year old Wato is keenly aware of the hostility towards her. She deeply misses...

Documentary on additional hearings involving Indigenous people and the Canadian government.

Alanis Obomsawin shows children film clips about the struggle of a Cree boy who is caught between Indigenous and settler worlds. Following these...

Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation...

Update on the Kattawapiskak Elementary School.

The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the events following the filing of a...

Through a series of still images, the bright, inquisitive and beautiful faces of the children from the Atikamekw community of Manawan are seen at...

The principal and his wife at the Indian Affairs school in Waskaganish, James Bay, have initiated a curriculum development project with input from...

Often feeling alone in her waking life, the young Alanis Obomsawin found friendship with the Green Horse, a benevolent being she visited regularly in...

On a beautiful summer’s day in Nunavik, a family enjoys the pleasures of berry picking and fishing as the sound of two Elders throat-singing...

An intimate portrait of Marie Leo, a Sto:lo woman who was adopted into a Líl̓wat family as a baby. Marie’s gentle narrative of her...

Amid a severe housing crisis that made international headlines in 2011, the federal government imposed third-party management on the Attawapiskat...

François Néwashish was the only one in his family from the Atikamekw community of Manawan not to go to residential school. He...