Starblanket
MovieTitle | Starblanket |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1973 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Donald Brittain |
Production country | Canada |
Production companies | ONF | NFB |
Run time | 27 min. |
At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did. Here he is seen in action, a chief with a briefcase, working with government officials for grants, running for public office, talking down his opposition, and solving the domestic problems of his reserve.