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The Indian Speaks

1967 40 min
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A film about Indigenous Peoples in many parts of Canada who are concerned about preserving what is left of their own culture and restoring what has been lost. It is the consciousness of tradition slipping away, with nothing equally satisfying or significant to take its place, that this film discovers wherever it goes. One of the speakers is Norval Morrisseau, an artist who, for a time, lived in Toronto but who returned to his reserve to devote his efforts to his own people; another is a business woman in Vancouver.

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A film about Indigenous Peoples in many parts of Canada who are concerned about preserving what is left of their own culture and restoring what has been lost. It is the consciousness of tradition slipping away, with nothing equally satisfying or significant to take its place, that this film discovers wherever it goes. One of the speakers is Norval Morrisseau, an artist who, for a time, lived in Toronto but who returned to his reserve to devote his efforts to his own people; another is a business woman in Vancouver.

  • director
    Marcel Carrière
  • executive producer
    André Belleau
  • commentary
    Stanley Jackson
  • camera
    Bernard Gosselin
  • sound
    Jacques Drouin
  • editing
    Werner Nold
  • sound editing
    Les Halman
  • sound mixing
    Ron Alexander
    Roger Lamoureux
  • music
    Pierre F. Brault
  • participant
    Herbie Manuel
    Norval Morrisseau
    Barbara Wilson

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