![The Ballad of Crowfoot](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/xBFQNleIuIoFJIYlRoRDTcOVV1r.jpg)
Plot
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The IFC’s inaugural release, Crowfoot was the first Indigenous-directed film to be made at the NFB.
Writer | N/A |
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Director | Willie Dunn |
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Country | Canada |
Production | ONF | NFB |