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History - Canada - Pre-1867 (22)

Relations between Indigenous Peoples and Europeans (3)

  • Ikwe
    Ikwe
    Norma Bailey 1986 57 min
    Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this dramatic film features a young Ojibwa girl from 1770 who marries a Scottish fur trader and leaves home for the shores of Georgian Bay. Although the union is beneficial for her tribe, it results in hardship and isolation for Ikwe. Values and customs clash until, finally, the events of a dream Ikwe once had unfold with tragic clarity.
  • Mission of Fear
    Mission of Fear
    Fernand Dansereau 1965 1 h 19 min
    The story of the Jesuit martyrs who lived with the Wendat converts in the region near what is now Midland, Ontario. The film is of wide interest since it reconstructs a period of Canadian history, especially of Indigenous life, at the very beginning of European settlement. The village and the Jesuits' buildings are exact models from archeologists' reconstructions. The story is based on the Jesuit Relations, the actual journals of mission life that still make for thrilling reading.

  • Rendezvous Canada, 1606
    Rendezvous Canada, 1606
    Joan Henson 1988 29 min
    The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and First Nations peoples.

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