Trick or Treaty? (movie)

Trick or Treaty? (movie)

  • Production country: CA
  • Producer: Alanis Obomsawin
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 9/4/2014
  • Run time: 85 min.

Movie description

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the infamous 1905 agreement wherein First Nations communities relinquished sovereignty over their traditional territories — to reveal the deceptions and distortions which the document has been subjected to by successive governments seeking to deprive Canada’s First Peoples of their lands.

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Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin

Role(s): Narrator

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