Alanis Obomsawin

A portrait of Eugene “Gene Boy” (pronounced Genie Boy) Benedict, from Odanak Indian Reserve (near Montreal, Quebec). At 17, adrift ...

Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada’s First Nations, Alanis Obomsawin returns to the village where she ...

As the only First Nations student in an all-white 1940s school, eight-year old Wato is keenly aware of the hostility towards her. She deeply ...

A young Native girl, rejected by her classmates, is comforted and counselled by the animals of the forest.

In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi’gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would ...

In this feature documentary, Aboriginal filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj ...