Duke Redbird
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saugeen First Nation, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Amisk
Overview: A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Walk With Dignity
Overview: First Nations documentary
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Shaman's Source
Overview: Three Ojibway Natives race to find a mystical ancestral spring before a ruthless industrialist claim it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Encounter with Saul Alinsky - Part 2: Rama Indian Reserve
Overview: Indigenous youth, led by Duke Redbird, argue their ideas against the blunt pragmatism of American activist and writer Saul Alinksy. Author of the book “Rules for Radicals”, Alinsky is widely considered the father of community organizing who spent his life advocating for improved living conditions in poor communities across the United States. In this impassioned debate, the young activists question the corrupting influence of power, and ask why Indigenous people cannot live traditionally and peacefully on the land. Alinsky responds, “You have got to be part of the world in order to change it. You are not going to make any changes by staying in your corner.” In Alinsky’s view, equality only happens when the disenfranchised have the strength to show the ruling powers that it will be more costly for them to withhold it. Encounter with Saul Alinksy offers fascinating insights into a conversation about power and activism that has lasting resonance today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-12
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Rise
Overview: Young, gifted and black! In an act of self-empowerment, a group of young Black people, mainly first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean, have occupied the public space of the Toronto underground to perform their agitprop concept of edutainment – poets, rappers, singers and musicians.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-09
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Powwow at Duck Lake
Overview: This powerful short documentary showing Indigenous youth resistance and emerging voices that will continue to define the landscape of Indigenous cultural and political activism for the next generation. Members of the National Youth Council, including Duke Redbird and Harold Cardinal, have a powerful exchange with a hostile white priest about the failures of the education system in relation to Indigenous people. The group tackles issues including segregated residential schools, the denial of citizenship rights, loss of language, and mass incarceration, many of which persist or continue to be stumbling blocks in the relationship between Indigenous people and the Government of Canada today.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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