Yesterday - Today: The Netsilik Eskimo

197157 min 51 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Gilles Blais

Production: Marc Beaudet

Script: Asen Balikci

Until the mid-1960s Zachary Itimignac and his family lived the nomadic life of the Inuit hunter in the Pelly Bay region of the Arctic. Then the Canadian government introduced measures to provide heated dwellings, a school, a hospital, medical care, a cooperative, air transportation, etc. This film is a day-long study of the impact of the changed way of life on this one family.

Subject categories

  • Social Issues > Indigenous PeoplesSocial Change
  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > NetsilikNorthwest Territories, Nunavut and YukonSocial Change

Credits

director
Gilles Blais
producer
Marc Beaudet
script
Asen Balikci
consultant
Asen Balikci
camera
Roger Rochat
sound
Richard Besse
editing
Marc Hébert
narrator
Jacques Languirand
re-recording
Roger Lamoureux
Michel Descombes