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Our Dear Sisters
197514 min 40 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Kathleen Shannon
Production: Kathleen ShannonLen Chatwin
Abenaki singer and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is the mother of an adopted child. She talks about her life, her people, and her responsibilities as a single parent. Her observations shake some of our cultural assumptions.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Cultural IdentityFamily LifePortraitsWomenWork
- Film and Video Arts > DocumentaryPortraitsWomen
- Women - Portraits > Family LifeIndigenous Women
- Families > Single-parent Families
Credits
- director
- Kathleen Shannon
- producer
- Kathleen Shannon
- executive producer
- Len Chatwin
- photography
- Robert Nichol
- Joan Hutton
- sound
- Ted Haley
- Esther Auger
- editing
- Donna Nichol
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel