Produced, directed and written
by Ed Martin
They are an Indian people who have suffered for many years. They were forced to live in unimaginable squalor. Houses not much better than cardboard boxes. No running water, no sewage disposal. Human waste tossed into the streets where children played in it and dogs ate it. As their sense of worth disintegrated, they engaged in a process of self-destruction. 90% of the community became alcoholic. Many of their children sniffed gas. Many more suffered from chronic disease. Stripped of culture, meaning, and hope, they killed themselves at a rate among the world’s highest. But their tragedies did not occur in a third world country. They happened in a country with a reputation as one of the world’s best places to live—Canada.They are the Innu. For thousands of years they roamed strong and free. They survived on one of the harshest lands on earth, the tundra of the great Labrador. After 50 years under white control in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, they struggle daily to survive Canada.
In 1993, the Canadian Human Rights Commission released a report condemning the Federal government’s treatment of the Innu. The report came to a shocking conclusion. It found the federal government had been in violation of the constitutional rights of the Innu for more than 50 years.
The Mushuau Innu: Surviving Canada explores the devastating impact these constitutional violations have had on the Innu and their future as a people.
Documentary Length: 46 minutes
Languages: English, Italian, Inuktitut, Mandarin and Portuguese
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ED MARTIN
for OMNI Television...................................DEAN OROS JOHN BONNELL GERRY DAVIS
KEVIN HANLON
JOHN BONNELL
ROGER MAUNDER
SCOTT PLANTE
CHRIS CORIVEAUJOHN BONNELL ED MARTIN BARRY NEWHOOK
BILL COULTASBOB PETRIE
BARRY NEWHOOK
JOHN BONNELLSHERRI LEVESQUE ANGE BENMORE
PETE WESTSHERRI LEVESQUE GINA SAUNDERS TERRYE HUNT CHRISTINE POKER,
THE INNU NATION
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATIONTHE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, GOOSE BAYThe documentary, The Mushuau Innu: Surviving Canada, was made possible with 100% funding from the OMNI Television Independent Producers Initiative. The $32.5 million fund is a seven year commitment created and made available for the independent production of third-language ethnocultural programming. The fund is not only dedicated to helping Canadian independent producers tell their stories in their language of comfort, but also to make sure that these stories are accessible to other ethnocultural communities through re-versioning in different languages. This is the industry’s first, and only, major source of funding for the independent production of non-official language programming.
More details on the fund available are at OMNI Television’s website www.omnitv.ca
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