Standing Alone

Collaborators : Daly, Tom | Howells, Barrie | Low, Colin | Scott, Michael | Office national du film du Canada
Kainai Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.Sweatbaths -- Alberta.Kainai Indians.Blood Indian Reserve (Alta.)Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) -- Cultural Identity.Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) -- Portraits.Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) -- Prairies.Documentary films.Afficher 3 supplémentaires

Pete Standing Alone of the Kainai Nation was more at home in the White man's culture than his own as a young man. However, confronted with the realization that his children knew very little about their origins, he became determined to pass down to them the customs and traditions of his ancestors. This hour-long film is the powerful biographical study of a twenty-five-year span in Pete's life, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indigenous man concerned with preserving his tribe's spiritual heritage in the face of an energy-oriented industrial age.

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Resource Type : Émission et filmFormats : 1 streaming video (57 min., 50 sec.)Collections : First Nations, The Circle Unbroken - Video 1Language : AnglaisYear of publication : ©1982

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