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Coppermine
199255 min 58 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Ray Harper
Production: Jerry KrepakevichGraydon McCrea
Script: Ray Harper
The Copper Inuit of the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest Territories were among the last Indigenous groups to be contacted by people from outside, mainly during the early years of the 20th century. When Doctor R.D. Martin arrived in Coppermine in 1929, he had to deal with one of the consequences of that contact, a tuberculosis epidemic.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > DiseasesIndigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Health and SafetyNorthwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon
- Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIssues and Contemporary Challenges
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
- Geography > The Arctic
Credits
- director
- Ray Harper
- script
- Ray Harper
- editing
- Ray Harper
- producer
- Jerry Krepakevich
- executive producer
- Graydon McCrea
- cinematography
- James Jeffrey
- sound
- Lindsay Bucknell
- Jerry Krepakevich
- sound editing
- Paul Fafard
- re-recording
- Paul Sharpe
- Bill Sheppard
- Jane Ludgate
- narrator
- Lydia Slabyj
- voice
- Bill Meilen
- André Roy
- music
- Michael Becker
- cast
- Glenn Beck
- Dave Pare