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The Last Mooseskin Boat
198228 min 4 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Raymond Yakeleya
Production: Raymond YakeleyaBill StewartJerry KrepakevichCheeko DesjarlaisTom Radford
Script: Klane King
Co-produced by the NFB and the Native Communications Society of the Western Northwest Territories.
This documentary records the passing of a tradition of the Shotah Dene of the Northwest Territories. For many generations, the Shotah Dene built mooseskin boats each spring, from dried hides and sinew, to carry their families and cargo down the mountain rivers to trading settlements such as Fort Norman. Gabe Etchinelle returns to the mountains of his youth to build one last mooseskin boat, now preserved in a museum in Yellowknife, a tribute to an earlier way of life.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Arctic RegionBoating and CanoeingCrafts
- Crafts > BoatbuildingFirst Nations Crafts
- Transportation > Boats
- Social Studies > Communities in Canada/World
- Diversity > Identity
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
- History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Dené
- Education > Indigenous Education – Canada
- Community > Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Intellectual Property
- Nature & Ecological Knowledge > Logging & Forest Products Traditional Forest Use
- Tangible & Material Culture > Vehicles & Transportation canoes, travois, etc.
Credits
- director
- Raymond Yakeleya
- producer
- Raymond Yakeleya
- Bill Stewart
- Jerry Krepakevich
- executive producer
- Cheeko Desjarlais
- Tom Radford
- script
- Klane King
- camera
- Bill Stewart
- sound
- Nora Jim
- editing
- Joe Jr. Viszmeg
- Bill Stewart
- narrator
- Don Rollans
Awards
- Honorable MentionAnnual Alberta Film and Television Awards