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Okimah / the National Film Board of Canada presents ; directed by Paul M. Rickard ; producer, Germaine Ying Gee Wong.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Cree
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cree Indians--Ontario--Moose Factory--Social life and customs.
- Cree Indians.
- Cree Indians--Hunting--Ontario--Moose Factory.
- Goose shooting--Ontario--Moose Factory.
- Goose shooting.
- Cree Indians--Hunting.
- Manners and customs.
- Ontario--Moose Factory.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (51 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English and Cree with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Since time immemorial, the goose hunt has been of central importance to the Cree people of the James Bay coastal areas. The hunt is not only a source of food for the people, but it also plays an increasingly important role in the transmission of Cree culture, skills and ethics. Filmmaker Paul M. Rickard takes us along with his family on a fall goose hunt in the surrounding areas of Moose River in northern Ontario. The Okimah are the hunting leaders whose life experiences and observations as hunters enable them to teach customary rules for exploiting the resource base. We see how these hunting excursions are not only about harvesting but about the need to respect the land and the animals, and the transmission of the Okimah's knowledge from one generation to the next.
- Credits:
- Editor, Denise Beaudoin ; cinematography, Nigel Markham ; original music, Janet Lumb, Dino Giancola.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: ©1998; previously released in 1999.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 26, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-okimah Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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