Query: Non-Canadian documentary films about Indigenous peoples in Canada
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Dances of the Kwakiutl
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
Finding Dawn
Foster Child
Nanook of the North
You Are on Indian Land
Quiet Killing
Evidence from documents: Dances of the Kwakiutl: about Indigenous peoples in Canada: The film is composed of sequences filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia, featuring a performance by Kwakiutl people of their secretive Hamatsa ceremony.
documentary films: It is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park: Non-Canadian documentary films: '''''The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park''''' () is a 2016 Mexican documentary film by Juan Manuel Sepúlveda.
about Indigenous peoples in Canada: It chronicles the lives of several First Nations people occupying Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Finding Dawn: '''''Finding Dawn''''' is a 2006 documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh looking into the fate of an estimated 500 Canadian Aboriginal women who have been murdered or have gone missing over the past 30 years.
Foster Child: documentary films: '''''Foster Child''''' is a 1987 documentary film by Gil Cardinal, exploring the filmmaker's search, at age thirty-five, for biological family.
about Indigenous peoples in Canada: Cardinal often meets with frustration during his search, but eventually finds his natural family and discovers his Métis roots.
Nanook of the North: Non-Canadian documentary films: '''''Nanook of the North''''' is a 1922 American silent film which combines elements of documentary and docudrama, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist.
about Indigenous peoples in Canada: In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, the film follows the struggles of the Inuk man named Nanook and his family in the Canadian Arctic.
You Are on Indian Land: '''''You Are on Indian Land''''' is a 1969 documentary film directed by Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell about the 1969 Akwesasne border crossing dispute and the confrontation between police and Mohawk of the St. Regis Reservation on a bridge between Canada and the United States, which stands on Mohawk land near Cornwall, Ontario.