Six miles deep
2010
DVD
A courageous and uncompromising look into the lives and hearts of the women behind the Caledonia/Six Nations land claim dispute. 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 the falls within their traditional territories. Their actions are led and supported by the Haudenosaunee clan mothers. Acting with grace and honour, they rally their community, demand recognition on their own terms - and lead a cultural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal society.
Item Details
Edition: Widescreen.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (43 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
Other Title:
- Six milles à l'horizon [DVD]
- Women and the land.
- Governance and the rule of law.
Notes:
- This DVD may not play in all DVD players.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
- Educational bonus features: Women and the land (18 min); Governance and the rule of law (20 min).
- Director of photography, Stan Barua ; editor, Katharine Asals ; original music, Edgardo Moreno.
- Opening narration: Lorna Hill.
- DVD ; NTSC, multizone ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- In English with English or French subtitles. Title frame also available in French.
Contents:
- Educational bonus features: Women and the land (18 min.); Governance and rule of law (20 min.)
Publisher or Distributor Number: 153C9910205
Control Number: 856412
UPC: 698193239477
Publisher: [Montréal] : National Film Board of Canada, 2010.Subjects:
- Caledonia Land Claim Dispute, Caledonia, Ont., 2006-
- Demonstrations -- Ontario -- Scotland.
- Haudenosaunee -- Land tenure -- Ontario -- Scotland.
- Haudenosaunee -- Ontario -- Scotland -- Claims.
- Haudenosaunee -- Ontario -- Scotland -- Government relations.
- Indigenous women -- Ontario -- Scotland -- Social conditions.
- Six Nations -- Claims.
- Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.)
- Women civic leaders -- Ontario -- Scotland.
Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Feature films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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