NFB Collection
The Moccasin Game
198313 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Frank Corcoran
Production: Dennis Sawyer
Script: Douglas Cameron
Produced by the NFB for the National Museum of Man.
This film looks at the ritual, tradition and legend of the moccasin game, an ancient and popular form of gambling said to have originated with the Sioux. A tournament held at the Sioux Valley Reservation near Brandon, Manitoba, brings together Sioux from both Canada and the United States to compete for high stakes in what is believed to be the oldest sleight-of-hand game in the world.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Games and Sports
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > LifestylesPrairies
- Indigenous Studies > ArtsHistory/PoliticsIdentity/Society
Credits
- director
- Frank Corcoran
- producer
- Dennis Sawyer
- script
- Douglas Cameron
- cinematography
- Roland Pirker
- sound
- Ervin Copestake
- editing
- Dagmar Taborsky
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl