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• Title:Urban elder / Four Directions Studio Limited in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada ; producer & director, Robert S. Adams ; producer (NFB), Peter Starr ; executive producer (NFB), Louise Lore.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Adams, Robert S., film director.
  Xwi7xwa Collection.
  National Film Board of Canada.
  Four Directions Studio Limited.
  
• Published/Created:[Montréal, Québec] : National Film Board of Canada, [2009].
  ©2009.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY audio-visual Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DVD PE A33 U73 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Urban--Social conditions.
  Indigenous Peoples--Elder roles.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Harper, Vern.
  Cree Indians--Ontario--Toronto--Biography.
  Indians of North America--Urban residence--Ontario--Toronto.
  Cree Indians--Ontario--Toronto--Social life and customs.
  Films for the hearing impaired.
  
• Description:1 videodisc (29 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  
• Terms governing use:Restrictions: Educational use and Personal use. http://copyright.ubc.ca/dvd-restrictions/
  
• Credits:Editor, Denis Takacs ; music, Don Ross ; story consultant, Duke Redbird.
  
• Cast:Featuring Native elders Vern Harper and Floyd Hand.
  
• Summary:Cree Indian Vern Harper tells how he reaches into the past to integrate traditional Native culture into city life, including the tradition of elder. Follows Vern to sweat lodge purification ceremony, ballet rehearsal of his daughter, healing ceremony, political march and counseling sessions with native prisoners at Warkworth Federal Prison.
  
• Notes:Originally produced in 1997.
  Produced in association with TVOntario, Vision TV, the Knowledge Network British Columbia, Saskatchewan Communications Network, CFRN-TV Edmonton, Alberta, CFCF-12 Montreal, Quebec.
  DVD-R, NTSC.
  Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.