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Village of widows : the story of the Sahtu Dene and the atomic bomb / a Lindum Films presentation ; produced and directed by Peter Blow ; co-producer, Gil Gauvreau.
LIBRA DVD 018 282
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tinne Indians--Canada--Social conditions.
- Tinne Indians.
- Radiation injuries--Northwest Territories.
- Radiation injuries.
- Uranium mines and mining--Health aspects--Canada.
- Uranium mines and mining.
- Radiation carcinogenesis.
- Uranium mines and mining--Health aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Great Bear Lake Region (N.W.T.).
- Canada.
- Northwest Territories.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min) : digital., color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, ON ; Buffalo, N.Y. : Kinetic Video, [1999]
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- The world's first uranium mine was located on Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. Village of widows chronicles the plight of the Sahtu Dene village of Deline, where all but four of the elders who worked as "coolies" during the Second World War, transporting uranium ore south in gunnysacks, have died of radiation-related cancer. Shows the response to this legacy.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Gary Farmer .
- Credits:
- Photography, Rick Bremness; editors, Tanmayo Krupansky, Celestine Natale; music composers/arrangers, Loretto Reid, George Vacval.
- Notes:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- OCLC:
- 464355404
- Publisher Number:
- 4653 Kinetic Videos
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