Six miles deep = Six milles à l'horizon
On February 28, 2006, members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) blockade a highway near Caledonia, Ontario to prevent a housing development on land that falls within their traditional territories. The ensuing confrontation makes national headlines for months. But less well known is the crucial role played by the clan mothers of the community, the traditional source of power in the Haudenosaunee Nation. With grace and honour, they rally the community on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve with a population of 20,000, the largest reserve in Canada. It is the clan mothers who set the rules for conduct. And when the community's chiefs ask people to abandon the barricades, it is the clan mothers who over-rule them.
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Physical Description
videodisc
1 videodisc (43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, [2010]
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Content descriptions
General Note: | NFPL Indigenous Collection. DVD-R. Disc label title. Widescreen version. Special features include: two documentaries. Bilingual packaging (English/French) GMD: videodisc. |
System Details Note: | DVD 5.1 Dolby digital. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Public performance rights. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 79.03 |
Language Note: | English language track with French subtitles. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. |