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Starblanket

Starblanket

| 27 min

At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did. Here he is seen in action, a chief with a briefcase, working with government officials for grants, running for public office, talking down his opposition, and solving the domestic problems of his reserve.


Credits
  • director
    Donald Brittain
  • producer
    Donald Brittain
  • script
    Donald Brittain
  • executive producer
    John N. Smith
  • photography
    Douglas Kiefer
  • sound
    Hans Oomes
  • editing
    John Kramer
  • sound editing
    Bernard Bordeleau
  • re-recording
    Michel Descombes

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