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Our People Will Be Healed

Sep 07, 2017 | IMDB 5.7

97 min Watch Now

Documentary

Legendary documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin provides a glimpse of what action-driven decolonization looks like in Norway House, one of Manitoba's largest First Nation communities.

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