Movie: Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises

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    Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises

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    Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, Alanis Obomsawin returns to the village where she was raised to tell her own people's history of prosperity, displacement, endurance, and revitalization.

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    2006-10-22

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