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• Title:First Nations : the circle unbroken / produced by Face to Face Media and the National Film Board of Canada.
  
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• Related Title:Potlatch.
  Time immemorial.
  Uranium.
  
• Author/Creator:Bob, Geraldine, 1950-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Marcuse, Gary.
  Nyce, Deanna.
  Williams, Lorna.
  National Film Board of Canada.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY audio-visual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DVD ET F57 2006 v.3
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-4
    
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Aboriginal title
  Indigenous Peoples--Education
  Indigenous Peoples--History
  Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--British Columbia
  Native Studies
  Nisga'a--History
  Nisga'a--Land claims
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Films for the hearing impaired.
  
• Genre/Form:Curriculum materials
  
• Description:1 videodisc (67 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Site license - UBC faculty, staff and students only.
  
• Credits:Series directors: Geraldine Bob, Gary Marcuse, Deanna Nyce and Lorna Williams ; producers: Gary Marcuse, Svend-Erik Eriksen.
  
• Summary:A collection of 23 short programs compiled on 7 DVDs, introducing students ages 9 to adult to a variety of contemporary First Nations perspectives on history, culture, spirituality, education, the role of women in the family, justice, the environment, racism, colonialism and Aboriginal title to land. The three titles in v.3 are: Potlatch (22 min.) - The Canadian government suppressed the Potlatch. The Kwag'ulh people resisted. Today the Potlatch is part of self-government. / Time immemorial (22 min.) - The Nisga'a have been resisting the seizure of their lands in the Nass Valley for 130 years. In 1972, they won a Supreme Court decision confirming their unextinguished title to the land. / Uranium (23 min.) - First Nations communities near uranium mines feel the impact of sixty years of radioactive pollution. For ages 11-Adult.--Container.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• Notes:Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
  Guide 1 is for videos 1-4.
  Originally videos 1-4 were released in 1993; videos 5-7 were released in 1998.
  Programs have been revised and shortened from the original productions for classroom use.
  
• Contents:DVD 1. Cree hunters, Quebec dams ; Standing alone ; The last mooseskin boat ; Kwa'nu'te'
  DVD 2. Hunters and bombers ; Magic in the sky ; Voyage of rediscovery
  DVD 3. Potlatch ; Time immemorial ; Uranium
  DVD 4. Education, as we see it ; Last days of Okak ; Commandos for Christ
  DVD 5. 'Qátu'was : people gathering together ; O'Siem ; Mi'kmaq family : Migmaoei Otjiosog ; The mind of a child
  DVD 6. Laxwesa Wa, strength of the river : fishing on the Fraser River ; Laxwesa Wa, strength of the river : fishing on the Coast ; Blockade : who owns the land?
  DVD 7. Coppermine ; For Angela ; Lord of the sky.