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8th fire : at the crossroads
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2012
Video > Documentary
Contributors
Paquet, Denis; Morin, Paul; Gagnon, Carole; Gosselin, Jean Pierre; Sterritt, Angela; Nepton Hotte, Caroline; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Documentary Unit.
Description
"At the close of the series, we meet young Aboriginals preparing to change the future, determined to light the 8th Fire and build a new relationship with Canada. A fascinating range of artists, activists and business people take us through ways to shed the colonial past, build new pathways in education and economic development. This is all in pursuit of a new relationship to replace 500 years of conflict and injustices. In a forest in Quebec, Huron Wendat Artist Teharihulen Michel Savard picks up a rifle and fires. His target: the 143 year-old Indian Act, colonial legislation that to this day governs the lives of most First Nations people."

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Alternate Title(s)
8th fire
Doc Zone (television program).
Eighth fire : at the crossroads
Statement of Responsibility
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Publication Information
Toronto Ont. : CBC Documentary Unit :;CBC Learning [distributor]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
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