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Forgotten warriors
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- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2014 NFB
- 1997 film
- Author
- Todd, Loretta
- Publisher
- Canada : National Film Board of Canada
- Call Number
- 06.3 F48w DVD
1 website
- Author
- Todd, Loretta
- Responsibility
- Directed by Loretta Todd; written by Loretta Todd; produced by Carol Geddes, Michaeldoxtater, Jerry Kerepakavich
- Narrated by Gordon Tootoosis
- A National Film Board of Canada production
- Publisher
- Canada : National Film Board of Canada
- Published Date
- 2014 NFB
- 1997 film
- Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (51:05 min:sec) : sound, color
- Abstract
- Although they could not be conscripted, when World War II was declared, thousands of Canadian Indigenous men and women elisted and fought alongside their non-Indigenous countrymen. While they fought for freedom for others, ironically the Indigenous soldiers were not allowed equality in their own country. As a reward for fighting the Canadian Soldier Veteran's Settlement Act allowed returning soldiers to buy land at a cheap price. However, many of the Indigenous solders were never offered, nor told about the land entitlelement. Some returned home to find the government had seized parts of their own reserve land to compensate non-Indigenous war veterans. With narrator Gordon Tootoosis providing a historical review, Indigenous veterans poignantly share thier unforgettable war memories and their heailing process. We join them as they travel back to Europe to perform a sacred circle for friends left behind, but not forgotten,in foreign grave sites.
- Accession Number
- 2019-109
- Call Number
- 06.3 F48w DVD
- Collection
- Archives Library
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