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Cast

Crew

Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell

Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell

Director

Denis Gillson

Denis Gillson

Producer

David Bairstow

David Bairstow

Executive Producer

John Fadden

John Fadden

Animation

Willie Dunn

Willie Dunn

Music

Dennis Sawyer

Dennis Sawyer

Editor

F. Whitman Trecartin

F. Whitman Trecartin

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Who Were the Ones?

19720.0 / 107 min
Documentary, Animation, Music

Overview

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.