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Rice harvest

Rice harvest

VHS

RICE HARVEST is a quiet watchful film which takes you into the centre of a ritual begun hundreds of years ago. At their lakeshore camp, the children of the Pauingassi band listen on the wind for the approach of the skytraders. Each fall, for generations, their families have made their rice harvest camp by these northern lakes, and combed the reedy shores with brooms and paddles and baskets for the sacred crop. Manomin. Wild rice. Indian gold. Jim...

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Indigenous peoples North America Manitoba
Rice farmers Manitoba
Wild rice Manowin
Wild rice Pauingassi band Harvesting Manitoba
Wild rice industry and trade
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Description:
1 videocassette (12 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in
analog
magnetic
VHS
Target Audience Note:
Secondary/Adult
Notes:
VHS
Licensed for public performance
National Film Board: 116C 0180 052
Directors: Norma Bailey, Bob Lower; producer: Jerry Krepakevich; commentary writer: Sheila Baptie
Narrated by Brian Richardson
Control Number:
1901572
Other Authors:
Bailey, Norma, 1949-
Baptie, Sheila
Krepakevich, Jerry
Lower, Robert W
National Film Board of Canada
Richardson, Brian
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