Rate: The Ballad of Crowfoot
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The Ballad of Crowfoot
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 14
Released: 1968-01-01
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Homepage: https://www.nfb.ca/film/ballad_of_crowfoot/
Studios: ONF | NFB, Challenge for Change / Société Nouvelle,
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.