This Riel Business
Overview
This documentary short is a cinematic recording of Tales from a Prairie Drifter, a stage comedy about the North-West Resistance during the opening of the Canadian West. Highlighting the roles of Louis Riel, the Resistance leader, prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald and General Middleton, who was sent to quell the uprising, the play defines the First nations and Métis cause more succinctly than many history books. Here, the play is performed by the Regina Globe Theatre before and Indigineous audience of First Nations and Métis, whose reactions are recorded.
Release date
01/01/1974
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Original Soundtrack
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Foster Child
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Filhos de Macuinaíma
Club Native
O Alence a káčeti
Ceremony
Keeping Country Strong
This Land
People of the Potlatch
Shamanic Visions: Forgotten Territories
As Long as the Rivers Run
Liberdade Não é Só Japão
Praia da Saudade
Cidadão Jatobá
No Māori Allowed
Invasion
The Pretendians
Double M Country
Terwijl het liefde was
O Retorno da Terra Tupinambá