We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice

It took one little boy, Jordan River Anderson, and his determined family to ensure that thousands of First Nations children can today receive the same standard of health care as the rest of the Canadian population. In Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the long legal fight against a system that caused injustices and suffering that resulted in the establishment of Jordan's Principle, which ensures First Nations children get the services they need when they need them.

Inspired by the life of the late teen activist Shannen Koostachin, children and community members from Attawapiskat created Shannen's Dream, a national campaign to provide equitable access to education in safe and suitable schools for First Nations children. Hi-Ho Mistahey! follows the grassroots movement from northern Ontario to the United Nations in Geneva, where the children's voices calling for a new school were finally heard, prompting a response back home in Canada.

As one of the 11 Numbered Treaties with First Nations in Canada, Treaty No. 9 covers a vast swath of northern Ontario. Trick or Treaty? details how the interpretations of this agreement between First Nations and the Crown can be vastly divergent. To the Canadian government, this treaty represents a surrendering of Indigenous sovereignty, while the descendants of the Cree signatories contend its original purpose to share the land and its resources has not been upheld. As enlightening as it is entertaining, Trick or Treaty? succinctly and powerfully portrays one community's attempts to enforce their treaty rights and protect their lands, while also revealing the complexities of contemporary treaty agreements.