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Incident at Restigouche
198445 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Alanis Obomsawin
Production: Andy ThomsonAlanis ObomsawinRobert VerrallAdam Symansky
Script: Alanis Obomsawin
On June 11 and 20, 1981, the Québec Provincial Police (QPP) raided Restigouche Reserve, Québec. At issue were the salmon-fishing rights of the Mi’kmaq. Because salmon has traditionally been a source of food and income for the Mi’kmaq, the Québec government's decision to restrict fishing aroused consternation and anger.
Released in 1984, this groundbreaking and impassioned account of the police raids brought Alanis Obomsawin to international attention. The film features a remarkable on-camera exchange between Obomsawin herself and provincial Minister of Fisheries Lucien Lessard, the man who’d ordered the raid.
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Subject categories
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > First NationsQuebec and OntarioSalmonTraditional Fishing
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > FishingLand Claims and RightsQuébec and OntarioRelations with Government and Security ForcesReserves
- Law and Crime > Human RightsIndigenous PeoplesSecurity forces
- Politics and Government - Canada > Indigenous ConcernsProvincial Politics and GovernmentQuébec
- Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIssues and Contemporary Challenges
- Social Studies > Law
- Geography > Territory: Indigenous
- Rights & Title > Aquatic & Fisheries Quebec
- Nature & Ecological Knowledge > Fisheries & Aquatic Animals
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Mi'kmaq (L'nu)
- Indigenous Governance General (Modern, Contemporary) > Protests, Activism, Popular Political Movements, Resistance, Conflicts
Credits
- director
- Alanis Obomsawin
- script
- Alanis Obomsawin
- narrator
- Alanis Obomsawin
- producer
- Andy Thomson
- Alanis Obomsawin
- executive producer
- Robert Verrall
- Adam Symansky
- camera
- Roger Rochat
- Savas Kalogeras
- sound
- Yves Gendron
- Bev Davidson
- editing
- Alan Collins
- Wolf Koenig
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- animation
- Raymond Dumas