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Our Land, Our Truth
198354 min 19 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Maurice Bulbulian
Production: Jean Dansereau
Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreement signed on November 11, l975, between the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, the Québec and federal governments, the James Bay Energy Corporation, the James Bay Development Corporation, Hydro-Québec and the Grand Council of the Crees, which took away Native rights to a territory of almost one million square kilometres. By their words and actions, the dissident Inuit of Povungnituk, Ivujivik and Sugluk express their strong desire to retain their land and their traditions. The filmmakers go into their homes, on the ice and the sea to record first-hand the lives of these northern people.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > CultureGovernment RelationsIndigenous IssuesLabrador and QuébecRegional DevelopmentRights and Land ClaimsSocial ChangeTraditional way of life
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/SocietyIssues and Contemporary Challenges
Credits
- director
- Maurice Bulbulian
- producer
- Jean Dansereau
- photography
- Roger Rochat
- Jacques Leduc
- Martin Leclerc
- sound
- Claude Chevalier
- William McClelland
- Yves Gendron
- editing
- Fernand Bélanger
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl