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The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968)
Directed by Willie Dunn
Documentary, Music · 10m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Willie Dunn
- Writer
- Willie Dunn
- Producer
- Barrie Howells
Details
- Release date
- 1968-01-01
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB, Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle