A Family Tree Narrative, Hungry Wolf of the Blood Tribe
A Family Tree Narrative - The Six Part Series
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24m
(2005, 24 minutes)
Hungry Wolf of the Blood Tribe
Beverly Hungry Wolf, author of "The Ways of My Grandmothers", is a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot people. Her traditional home in southern Alberta is just under Chief Mountain on land chosen by Chief Red Crow. Beverly and her family discuss the significance of beaver bundles for their people's healing and spiritual traditions, the importance of learning one's history, and their community's renewed interest in their ancestors' way of life.
A Family Tree Narrative portrays six families of Canada's First Nations through the oral traditions of storytelling. Celebrating their ancestry as far back as the stories go, they share the relationships that have given them strength, pride and love throughout the years. Through an exploration of each family's legacy, the stories weave hope and challenge, loss and triumph in the lives of the First People of this land.
A Family Tree Narrative, 6 part series x 24 minutes produced by Chiaro Productions and Martin de Valk:
Assu of Cape Mudge
Dion of the Kehewin
Dorion of Prince Albert and Cumberland House
Hungry Wolf of the Blood Tribe
Lavallee of the Piapot
Marchand of the Okanagan
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A Family Tree Narrative, Marchand of ...
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Marchand of the OkanaganThe Okanagan people are a nation running through two countries. The Marchand family came to their British Columbia home when their grandmother Mary Ann rode up from Washington State by horseback. Len Marchand, his sister Pauline Chiba, and her daughter...
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A Family Tree Narrative, Assu of Cape...
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Assu of Cape Mudge
The Assu family -- their name meaning "a father that's highly respected" -- descend from Chief Billy Assu, the last hereditary chief of the We Wai Kai band (Kwakwaka'wakw) in Cape Mudge, a tiny community on the southwest shore of British Columbia's Quadra I...
