Aboriginal filmmaker. Agency - English program:.Quebec Centre.

Original music composer, Francis Grandmont ; writer, Alanis Obomsawin ; director, Alanis Obomsawin ; editor, Alison Burns ; camera, Philippe Amiguet, Yoan Cart, Michel La Veaux ; location sound, Raymond Marcoux, Ismaël Cordeiro ; sound editor, André Chaput ; voice recording, Patrick Knup ; drawings, null Sgoagani ; research, Alanis Obomsawin ; animation camera, Pierre Landry ; music recording, Geoffrey Mitchell, Sylvain Cajelais ; re-recording mixer, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard ; producer, Alanis Obomsawin ; executive producer, Sally Bochner.

Voice, Arthur Holden, Tony Robinow ; narration, Alanis Obomsawin.

Recorded 2002.

It was the summer of 2000 and the country watched with disbelief as federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'kmaq fishermen of Esgenoopetitj, or Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? What happened at Burnt Church? Alanis Obomsawin casts her cinematic and intellectual nets into history to provide a context for the events on Miramichi Bay. Delineating the complex roots of the conflict with passion and clarity, she builds a persuasive defence of the Mi'kmaq position.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention - Category: Social Issues, 2003 Award for Best Documentary Feature, 2003 Award of Distinction - Category: Documentary Feature, 2003

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