Indigenous filmmaker. Agency - English program:.Northwest Centre. Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and the Native Communications Society of the Western Northwest Territories.

Director, Raymond Yakeleya ; producer, Raymond Yakeleya, Bill Stewart, Jerry Krepakevich ; executive producer, Cheeko Desjarlais, Tom Radford ; script, Klane King ; camera, Bill Stewart ; sound, Nora Jim ; editing, Joe Jr. Viszmeg, Bill Stewart.

Narrator, Don Rollans.

Recorded 1982.

This documentary records the passing of a tradition of the Shotah Dene of the Northwest Territories. For many generations, the Shotah Dene built mooseskin boats each spring, from dried hides and sinew, to carry their families and cargo down the mountain rivers to trading settlements such as Fort Norman. Gabe Etchinelle returns to the mountains of his youth to build one last mooseskin boat, now preserved in a museum in Yellowknife, a tribute to an earlier way of life.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Honorable Mention, 1984

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