Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:David Bairstow
Production Companies:ONF NFB
Who Were the Ones on the Web:Official Website
Who Were the Ones
7 minAnimation,
Documentary,
Music
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand inviting you here by our campfires as brothers we might stand The song expresses bitter memories of the past of trust repaid by treachery and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists
DirectorMichael Kanentakeron Mitchell
