Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)

Directed by

Tony Ianzelo, Boyce Richardson

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

58 min

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Cree families from northern Quebec spend the winter living in a traditional hunting camp. The film shows how they build shelter, hunt, and make tools while following the beliefs and ecological knowledge of their people.

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What happens

Cree Hunters of Mistassini is a 1974 documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and co-directed by Boyce Richardson and Tony Ianzelo. It chronicles a group of three Cree families from the Mistassini region of Quebec as they set up a winter hunting camp near James Bay and Ungava Bay. The film explores the beliefs and the ecological principles of the Cree people. Richardson had previously written a series of articles for the Montreal Star on Native rights and the environmental damage done by development on their land. He traveled to Mistassini to speak with Cree friends, pledging that their film would allow Native people to tell their own stories, and filming went ahead with three hunting families in the bush, over five months from 1972 to 1973. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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