Trick or Treaty? (2014)

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the infamous 1905 agreement wherein First Nations communities relinquished sovereignty over their traditional territories — to reveal the deceptions and distortions which the document has been subjected to by successive governments seeking to deprive Canada’s First Peoples of their lands.

Released

2014-09-04

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

85 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Alanis Obomsawin