The Ballad of Crowfoot
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The IFC’s inaugural release, Crowfoot was the first Indigenous-directed film to be made at the NFB.
Género: Documental, Música
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Tripulación: Barrie Howells (Producer), Willie Dunn (Writer), Willie Dunn (Music), Willie Dunn (Director)
Palabra clave:
The Ballad of Crowfoot 1968
indigenous
archive footage
music
mi'kmaq
colonial betrayal
scottish folk singer
ONF | NFB
Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle
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