Agency:.Produced by the NFB with the cooperation of Télé-Québec. Agency - French program:.Studio Culture et expérimentation, ACIC.

Research, Lucie Ouimet ; writer, Lucie Ouimet ; director, Lucie Ouimet ; editing, Teresa de Luca ; director of photography, Carlos Ferrand ; sound, Diane Carrière, Richard Lavoie ; sound editing, France Dubé ; original music, Alain Bellaïche ; foley, Stéphane Cadotte ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; producer, André Gladu.

Participation, William Commanda, Roger Scott, Anthony Paul, Roy Lisk, Lucassie Ainalik, Ian Dewache.

Recorded 2000.

William Commanda, whose Algonquin name is Ojigkwanong, was born on the Maniwaki reserve in Quebec in 1913. The story of his early life is a familiar one: the loss of Indigenous culture, numbing poverty and escape into alcohol. In 1961 Commanda, then chief of his reserve, was terminally ill. He had a vision that would transform his life and those of his people. Imagining a Circle of all Nations, his first gesture was to reconcile the Algonquins and Haudenosaunee. Since then, he has devoted himself to the reconciliation of peoples and cultures. The message of this old sage is universal: healing is the main priority and can only be achieved through forgiveness and tolerance. In this, he shares much with other remarkable individuals who managed to wash politics clean of resentment: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. Ojigkwanong - an encounter with a remarkable man. In French with English subtitles.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).