The Ballad of Crowfoot (movie)
- User score: 6.8
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Willie Dunn
- Production companies: ONF | NFB, Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Release date: 1/1/1968
- Run time: 10 min.
Movie description
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.
