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Rice Harvest

Norma Bailey & Bob Lower

1980 11 min

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This short documentary explores how the First Nations staple of wild rice is exported as a luxury food thanks in part to bush pilots. Follow the families of the Pauingassi band as they comb the reedy shores with brooms, paddles and baskets for manomim (wild rice).

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This short documentary explores how the First Nations staple of wild rice is exported as a luxury food thanks in part to bush pilots. Follow the families of the Pauingassi band as they comb the reedy shores with brooms, paddles and baskets for manomim (wild rice).

See also

Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis)

Agriculture

Food and Food Industries

All subjects

Credits

• director
  Norma Bailey
  
  Bob Lower
  
• producer
  Jerry Krepakevich
  
• executive producer
  Michael Scott
  
• script
  Sheila Baptie
  
• cinematography
  Richard A. Stringer
  
• sound
  Bob Lower
  
• editing
  Norma Bailey
  
• sound editing
  Ken Rodeck
  
• re-recording
  Clive Perry
  
• narrator
  Brian Richardson
  

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