
Short film from the National Film of Canada on a meeting of aboriginal people at Duck Lake in 1967. The speakers all deal with the many difficulties native peoples face in society - discrimination, alcohol abuse, limited educational opportunities - and there is a fascinating debate at the end of the film on the value of native residential schools.... (Full plot summary below)
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Short film from the National Film of Canada on a meeting of aboriginal people at Duck Lake in 1967. The speakers all deal with the many difficulties native peoples face in society - discrimination, alcohol abuse, limited educational opportunities - and there is a fascinating debate at the end of the film on the value of native residential schools.
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