Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:ONF NFB Challenge for Change Société Nouvelle
The Ballad of Crowfoot on the Web:Official Website
The Ballad of Crowfoot
Audience Score
DirectorWillie Dunn
WriterWillie Dunn
10 minDocumentary,
Music
Plot
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canadas first music video The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn a MikmaqScottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew the first allIndigenous 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 19thcentury Siksika Blackfoot chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy The IFCs inaugural release Crowfoot was the first Indigenousdirected film to be made at the NFB
