Sovereignty and Resistance

This theme offers film excerpts on land claims, management of natural resources, ancestral rights and recovery of Aboriginal cultural artefacts. It also presents images showing the resistance of Aboriginal peoples to repression by non-Aboriginal culture.

Excerpts

Dancing Around the Table, Part One

Our Nationhood

Riel Country

Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole

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Interview with Loretta Todd

Filmmaker Loretta Todd explains that the roots of current conflicts like the one in Ipperwash lie in the dispossession of land such as occurred during the World Wars.

Loretta Todd’s biography and filmography can be consulted by visiting www.nfb.ca/portraits.

Introduction

Sovereignty and Resistance

Interview with Loretta Todd

Interview with Alanis Obomsawin