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Niigaanibatowaad : frontrunners : a play in two acts / directed by Lori Lewis ; director's mentor, John Gurdebeke ; written by Laura Robinson ; producers, Laura Robinson, Lori Lewis, Liz Jarvis ; produced by Laksakla Productions, Laura Robinson and Buffalo Gal Pictures in association with APTN.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Pan American Games--(5th : 1967 : Winnipeg, Man.).
- Pan American Games.
- Indian athletes--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Indian athletes.
- Racism in sports--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Racism in sports.
- Racism in education--Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Racism in education.
- Winnipeg (Man.)--Race relations.
- Winnipeg (Man.).
- Manitoba--Winnipeg.
- Genre:
- Sports films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Montréal, Québec] : [Distributed by] National Film Board of Canada, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In Engish and an unidentified Native American language 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:
- In 1967 when Winnipeg first hosted the Pan American Games, ten outstanding athletic teenage boys were chosen to run 800 kilometers over an ancient message route with the Games torch. When the runners arrived at the stadium, they were not allowed to enter with the torch. Instead, a non-Aboriginal runner was given the honour. Thirty-two-years later, the province of Manitoba issued an official apology. Nine of the ten young men chosen for the 1967 Pan Am Games torch run were from residential schools. Niigaanibatowaad is about the segregation of the Aboriginal athletes and the despair and abuse suffered in the school system.
- Participant:
- Ron Desmoulins, Derek George Jr., Lori Lewis.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Don Lowe ; editor & sound designer, John Gurdebeke ; music, James Creasey.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Torchrunners Films Inc., c2007.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed July 31, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- nf-niigaa Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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