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Urban elder

Title: Urban elder [videorecording] / Four Directions Studio Limited in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada ; producer & director, Robert S. Adams ; producer (NFB), Peter Starr ; executive producer (NFB), Louise Lore.
Publication: [Montreal] : National Film Board of Canada, c1997.

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Description

1 videocassette (27 min., 55 sec.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Cree Indian Vern Harper tells how he reaches into the past to integrate traditional native culture into city life, including the tradition of elder. Follows Vern to sweat lodge purification ceremony, ballet rehearsal of his daughter, healing ceremony, political march and counseling sessions with native prisoners at Warkworth Federal Prison.

Subjects

Urban Indians > North America > Ontario > Toronto
Harper, Vern
Cree Indians > Ontario > Toronto > Social life and customs
Indians of North America > Ontario > Toronto > Social life and customs
Cree Indians > Urban residence > Ontario > Toronto
Cree Indians > Ontario > Toronto > Biography

Note

Produced in association with TVOntario, Vision TV, the Knowledge Network British Columbia, Saskatchewan Communications Network, CFRN-TV Edmonton, Alberta, CFCF-12 Montreal, Quebec.
Stereo.

Credits (note)

Editor, Denis Takacs ; music, Don Ross ; story consultant, Duke Redbird.

System Details (note)

VHS.

Language (note)

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Call Number

*UGS-1148

OCLC

39499370

Title

Urban elder [videorecording] / Four Directions Studio Limited in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada ; producer & director, Robert S. Adams ; producer (NFB), Peter Starr ; executive producer (NFB), Louise Lore.

Imprint

[Montreal] : National Film Board of Canada, c1997.

System Details

VHS.

Credits

Editor, Denis Takacs ; music, Don Ross ; story consultant, Duke Redbird.

Language

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Added Author

Four Directions Studio Limited.

National Film Board of Canada.

Publisher No.

113C 9197 040 NFB

Research Call Number

*UGS-1148 [Video]

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