Powwow at Duck Lake

  • Run time: 14 min
  • Premiere: 1967. July 1.

This powerful short documentary showing Indigenous youth resistance and emerging voices that will continue to define the landscape of Indigenous cultural and political activism for the next generation. Members of the National Youth Council, including Duke Redbird and Harold Cardinal, have a powerful exchange with a hostile white priest about the failures of the education system in relation to Indigenous people. The group tackles issues including segregated residential schools, the denial of citizenship rights, loss of language, and mass incarceration, many of which persist or continue to be stumbling blocks in the relationship between Indigenous people and the Government of Canada today.

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Camera

Douglas Kiefer

Camera Operator

D'Arcy Marsh

Camera Operator

Editing

Production

David Hughes

Producer

Camera

Douglas Kiefer

Camera Operator

D'Arcy Marsh

Camera Operator

Editing

Production

David Hughes

Producer