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Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB539482
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Alanis Obomsawin, Sally Bochner
Directors: Alanis Obomsawin
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Arts, Canadian History, Documentary, First Nations Studies, Geography, History, Indigenous Peoples, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2006
Running Time: 144:02
Closed Captions: Yes
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Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises - DVD 
Catalogue Number: NFB539482
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Alanis Obomsawin, Sally Bochner
Directors: Alanis Obomsawin
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Arts, Canadian History, Documentary, First Nations Studies, Geography, History, Indigenous Peoples, Women's Studies
Language: English
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2006
Running Time: 144:02
Closed Captions: Yes
Click here for pricing
Yvonne M'Sadoques rocks forward in her chair. She's lived in the Abenaki community of Odanak for over a century - and has no shortage of stories to tell.
"The priest would march into our home and order us to stop dancing. We were going to the devil, he said." She pauses, a humorous glint in her eye. "But you know - I don't really believe in the devil. Do you?"
M'Sadoques is in conversation with Alanis Obomsawin, another of Odanak's proud daughters - and one of Canada's leading documentary filmmakers.
Obomsawin's illustrious career comes full circle with Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises. Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, she returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyric account of her own people.
"The priest would march into our home and order us to stop dancing. We were going to the devil, he said." She pauses, a humorous glint in her eye. "But you know - I don't really believe in the devil. Do you?"
M'Sadoques is in conversation with Alanis Obomsawin, another of Odanak's proud daughters - and one of Canada's leading documentary filmmakers.
Obomsawin's illustrious career comes full circle with Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises. Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, she returns to the village where she was raised to craft a lyric account of her own people.