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• Title:Jingle dress / a film by James Buffin ; Veritus Pictures.
  
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• Variant Title:Jingle dress : first dance
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Buffin, James, film director.
  Koostachin, Jules Arita.
  Benoit, Lukus.
  Perpaul, Michele.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  Veritus Pictures.
  McNabb Connolly (Firm)
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Veritus Pictures ; Mississauga, Ontario : McNabb Connolly [distributor], ©2013.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY audio-visual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Order Information:1 Copy Received as of 01-27-2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Koostachin, Jules Arita.
  Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
  
• Subject(s):Indigenous people--Abuse of--Canada.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Educational use and Personal use. http://copyright.ubc.ca/dvd-restrictions/
  
• Credits:Music, Lukus Benoit, Michele Perpaul.
  
• Cast:Jules Koostachin, Rita Okimawininew, Elizabeth Paul Martin, Bonnie Johnston, Mahiigan Koostachin, Asivak Koostachin, Karen J. Pheasant; Lukus Benoit, musician.
  
• Summary:Jingle Dress-First Dance documents the healing journey of Jules Koostachin (Cree, Attawapiskat). In honour of resolving the harm done to her family because her mother was held against her will in the Canadian Native Residential School System, Jules invites a first generation Canadian of European descent to be her witness while she pursues the dream of dancing at a pow wow for the first time in a Jingle Dress. In 2004 Jules Koostachin was a single mother and executive director at the only native women's shelter in Toronto. Having dedicated her passion towards helping others for several years, the tank was empty. Director James Bufffin grew up in Toronto and had never heard of the Canadian Native Residential School System prior to meeting Jules. His acceptance of her purpose; to heal from the damage caused by her mother's ten-year childhood incarceration, was based entirely on friendship. Awareness of the amount of trust placed in him only dawned as the depths of the trauma were shared over time. Jules had planned on taking a year to make her Jingle Dress and dance at a pow wow. Intially unaware of the sacred steps involved in the process, or where to even start , the timeline quickly went out the window. Living through the past of her Hingle Dress journey, Jules' life was transforming. New members jouned her family and other departed. All the while she kept moving towards the dream. Attending a university named after one of the policy architects of the Canadian Indian Residential Schools was an especially poignant move for Jules, especially on the eve of her first dance at Eagle Lake.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online to institutions with a site license.
  
• Notes:On container "First Dance."
  Date from disc surface.
  DVD video.
  
• Contents:Intro
  Why a jingle dress?
  Starting from scratch
  The plan changes
  Inside woodlands
  Past & future
  Accomplishments & loss
  Following through
  Closure.