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• Title:Keepers of the fire / written and directed by Christine Welsh ; produced by Ian Herring, Christine Welsh.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Herring, Ian.
  Welsh, Christine.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  National Film Board of Canada. Prairie Centre.
  Omni Film Productions.
  National Film Board of Canada. Studio D.
  
• Published/Created:[Montréal] : National Film Board of Canada, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY audio-visual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DVD PW W45 K44 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Mohawk--Women--Leadership.
  Indigenous Peoples--Resistance.
  Haida--Women--Leadership.
  Indigenous Peoples--Resistance--Lyle Island.
  Indigenous Peoples--Women--Leadership.
  Indigenous Peoples--Warrior society.
  Indigenous Peoples--Resistance--Oka.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indian women--Canada--Social conditions.
  Indian women--Canada--Politics and government.
  Films for the hearing impaired.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (54 min., 42 sec.) : sound, color.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Site license : UBC faculty, staff and students only.
  
• Summary:Aboriginal women from across Canada --Mohawk, Haida, Maliseet and Ojibwe-- speak out about their passionate struggle for their culture and dignity. Their different battles include: the Oka crisis of 1990; the blockade of logging roads on Lyell Island of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1985; the campaign that compelled the passage of Bill C-31; and the founding of Anduhyaun, a Native women's shelter in Toronto.
  
• Local note:First Nations author/director - Métis.
  
• Notes:Originally released in Canada in 1994.
  Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
  DVD video.