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Utshimassits: Place of the Boss (1996)

Utshimassits: Place of the Boss poster
Original title
Place of the Boss: Utshimassits
Directed by
John Walker
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
48 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
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This documentary examines a crisis in the Innu community of Davis Inlet, Labrador. It looks at how the community was formed when the Mushuau Innu were forced to stop their nomadic way of life.

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What happens

Utshimassits: Place of the Boss is a Canadian documentary film, directed by John Walker and released in 1996. The film focuses on Davis Inlet (Utshimassits), an Innu community in Labrador which was the site of a major humanitarian crisis in the 1990s, and explores how the community's roots as a forcible resettlement of the previously nomadic Mushuau Innu First Nation contributed to the crisis. The film premiered on February 13, 1996 as an episode of the CBC Television documentary series Witness. At the 11th Gemini Awards, it won the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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