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Who Were the Ones? (1972)
Directed by Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell
Documentary, Animation, Music · 7m
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?" The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.
Crew
- Director
- Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell
- Editor
- F. Whitman Trecartin, Dennis Sawyer
- Producer
- Denis Gillson
Details
- Release date
- 1972-01-01
- Runtime
- 7m
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB