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Starblanket
197327 min 20 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Donald Brittain
Production: Donald BrittainJohn N. Smith
Script: Donald Brittain
At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket is one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did. Here he is seen in action, a chief with a briefcase, working with government officials for grants, running for public office, talking down his opposition, and solving the domestic problems of his reserve.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > PortraitsPrairies
Credits
- director
- Donald Brittain
- producer
- Donald Brittain
- script
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- John N. Smith
- photography
- Douglas Kiefer
- sound
- Hans Oomes
- editing
- John Kramer
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes