Recherche dans la collection - Nonoonse Anishinabe Ishichekewin Ka Kanawentank = The Beauty of Our People

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: VIDÉO

1983-0079

Vidéo

1 of 1

1980

National Film Board

director, Elise Swerhone; Sara Berger; producer, Jerry Krepakevich; executive producer, Michael Scott; scenario/photography/narrator, Elise Swerhone; sound, Lois Browne; editing, Bill Eakin; sound editing, John Knight; music, Rose Jackson

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Western pioneers knew that sugar could be made from the sap of the Manitoba maple. But the trees were small, the sap was thin, and the tastier product of Québec and Ontario was cheap and easy to get. The settler soon turned away from the arduous annual harvest and the Manitoba maple became just another tree. But not for Nonoonse. Forty years ago her grandmother brought her to Sugar Island. Since then she has returned every spring to gather the sweet sap. Filmed on Lake Manitoba, near the Ebb'n'Flow Reserve, Nonoonse is both a clear description of sugar-making and a quiet statement on the importance of the tradition to the Saultaux Indians of the region. <10mn 17s>

English / Saulteaux

106C 0680 054

Libre

GAD 0FD579

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur