Job's Garden
Job’s Garden (Cree language, English Sub-titles)
James Bay Quebec 1972
We decided to make a film in which the Crees were able to express how they felt about this monstrous project that was being built on their land: and the two people who agreed to work with us, Job and Mary Bearskin, were wonderfully expressive, wise and profound.
The film expresses the vision of the Crees. Nowadays, it is a valuable historical document that contains the opinions of a group of elders (including Samson Neacappo, David Cox, and Job Bearskin) who represent the wisdom of the Cree at its best. I think that's why the movie is still popular among the James Bay Crees.
Boyce Richardson
Note: Shot in 16mm, Job's Garden was lost for years, found by filmmaker Mark Zannis in the late 1990s; he transferred the original to digital format. A French-language version is posted on KZhead; a DVD is also available (see www.rtscanada.ca for more details)
A very good Canadian historical documentary. 16mm. wow. what great footage. Thank you so much for sharing!
I am so glad that this film was found. It honors these people and their love for the earth and their people. We should learn from this, not just to address the injustice, but to see a way to live in the world that does not kill it.
Unfortunately, it seems we have learned nothing. These types of injustices continue in Canada. True reconciliation will require remorse, restoration of the land and greater sovereignty for first nations. I hope it happens in my lifetime...
One day not so far away from now MOTHER EARTH will WIPE all these concrete work from the surface of the planet.
Sad to realize a humble and sovereign people to be affected this way...but corporations the world over won't stop their pursuit for more and more wealth until every water source is polluted,every tree is destroyed along with the existing.creatures and that is the reality that's happening in so many countries around the globe
Kiitos videosta, nykyään meillä mieluummin puretaan patoja kuin rakennetaan.
I am Michif . These are my people .
very soon no indian or white for that matter will be able to take ANYTHING from so called white society (which we have all benefited from for years, eg firearms, skidoos, quads, metal utensils, chain saws, boats and motors, clothing, canvas flour etc etc etc)...we HAVE TOO plan on being totally self sufficient, I can't emphasize this enough (especially food because tHEY plan on starving everybody including the white people being blamed here)...creator bless...your friend, doug
May the four winds bring you to the proper place
Renee Levesque argued that Quebec should be independent based on the right of "self-determination" so the Quebecois would masters of their own house. It is a loathsome shame that Premier Bourassa would not extend the right of self=determination to the Cree and abandon his grandiose Hydro Project. Do the Cree now have any right of sovereignty in the land they have traditionally occupied?
Its all about the money....It always is...
The Eeyou Nation (Cree) on the Quebec side of James Bay have done far better than any other First Nations. The Grand Council of the Crees are the law up there; they are the gov't for a vast swath of land, not the quebec gov't.
Money?! Not really. Cree stretch from Labrador clear to northern Alberta, but most Cree people are not part of the James Bay Agreement; just the ones on the quebec side of James Bay. The Cree on the ontario side of James Bay are amongst the most impoverished First Nations across the land (Kashechewan, Fort Albany, Attawapiskat).
As a white guy, I am profoundly embarrassed on behalf of the anonymous 'white worker' whose wisdom is immortalized in this modest and unassuming documentary. These people have every reason to shout for the injustice of being ignored and dismissed by hydro-quebec, but instead they speak quietly and rationally. If the roles were reversed, that 'white worker' would be screaming for vengeance so loud that even rob halford would acknowledge it.
Sad to see this. When you dam up the waterways millions of creatures of earth die. Bad to see this happening. Nothing comes from this. Pocketbook more important than life. There are better ways. Things too spread out. Who needs this?
The greed of the powerful will ultimately end humans.
There now doing this with windmills throughout Maine they say green power but when it chops up raptors geeseb and turkey vulture s all for Massachusetts crazy power consumption with no benefit to Maine
The white man is not a group with singular identity like a tribe. It is a diverse group with scattered orientations. The so called backbone is the current power structure. THAT is what rules territories.
get the gov out of there
The indigenous people have been subjected to all kinds of atrocities in Canada
I’d love to know the specs and maker of that canoe 🛶
Next time you visit a First Nations community, see if they have a Northern store, or NorthMart. They are both under the Northwest Company banner. Those stores order & sell them on First Nations across Canada.My late grandfather owned an 18 ft. canoe, the largest, I believe is about 24 ft. that can handle upwards of 30-40 HP outboards, and are still used in many communities.
Just Ask...
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Sad.
yeah the new times and its speed/desires of most people now are sickening to those who lived beside the nature/peace/harmony that once was. what is the lesson here?
Normal people 👍
Whin I see these things it saddens my heart an makes me ashame of the white blood that flowes in my vanes
Blood gives life, selfish blood takes life. Humanity has all types and my guess is 70% are selfish, you pick the country or race and it's going to be the same in my opinion. You sound like you don't have selfish blood so your not to blame for what selfish peoples do.
But we all came from africa. Then diferent enviroment formed us in different ways. But we are all coming from same family.
Ugh what an unbelievable thing to say...
I'm not even going to comment about what I think about you...
"When I see these things it saddens my heart an makes me ashamed of the white blood that flows in my veins." It isn't about your race or genetics, it's who you are as a person and the decisions that you decide to make.
Its so funny that we scream , inclusion and racial equality unless we want your land.
wrangler shirts using wire for snairs ?????????????
They have traded with white man since the first Vikings came. Trade is good but at first no one wanted the land just trade
Were there no reclamation plans for these projects? Surely the government did not just leave all that torn up ground?? SImply changing the white man word "Indian" with "First People" doesn;t solve any problems.
american wire co
They should of left it alone. Ruined a pristine land and a great peoples culture in the name of "progress"
Its ridiculous how we build these profit margins .... its nothing but a profit for corporate nations bull shit
First Nations still face troubles with Inuits, Metis, Europeans, And Far Easterners most of all
They are not Indians - they are from the upper part of the North American Continent called Canada. Indians are the indigenous inhabitants of India.
They are both Indians. Although the ones in north america are so called due to Christopher Columbus mistakenly believing that he had landed in India, it has since become the main term to describe the people and their descendants who lived in the American prior to European colonization.
STOP
What a shit show... Support to the natives!