Incident at Restigouche

"On June 11 and 20, 1981, the Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) raided Restigouche Reserve, Quebec. At issue were the salmon-fishing rights of the Mi’kmaq. Because salmon has traditionally been a source of food and income for the Mi’kmaq, the Quebec government’s decision to restrict fishing aroused consternation and anger. Released in 1984, this groundbreaking and impassioned account of the police raids brought Alanis Obomsawin to international attention. The film features a remarkable on-camera exchange between Obomsawin herself and provincial Minister of Fisheries Lucien Lessard, the man who’d ordered the raid. Decades later, Jeff Barnaby, director of Rhymes for Young Ghouls, cited the film as an inspiration. “That documentary encapsulated the idea of films being a form of social protest for me... It started right there with that film.”" - From NFB website

Call Number: 
E99 .M6 E93 2006 DVD
Title Responsibility: 
National Film Board of Canada.
Author Information: 
One of the most acclaimed Indigenous directors in the world, Alanis Obomsawin came to cinema from performance and storytelling. Hired by the NFB as a consultant in 1967, she has created an extraordinary body of work—more than 50 films and counting. The Abenaki director has received numerous international honours and in 2019 was named a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Production Place: 
[Montreal] :
Producer: 
NFB,
Production Date: 
c2006.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Mi’kmaq
Reviews: 

Prins, Harold. Review. (1988). American Anthropologist, 90(3), new series, 774-778. www.jstor.org/stable/678328.

Recommended For: 
Research
Catalogue Key: 
7078037
Law Subject(s): 
Resistance
Resource Law
Land Claims