Agency - English program:.Prairie Centre. Agency:.Co-produced by Zemma Pictures and the NFB with the participation of the Canada-Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office and Telefilm Canada.

Director, John Paskievich ; script, John Paskievich ; producer, John Paskievich, Joe MacDonald, Ches Yetman ; associate producer, Ellen Rutter ; cinematography, Joan Hutton ; animation camera, Raymond Dumas ; sound, Robert Hanchar ; editing, Jeff McKay ; sound editing, Clive Perry ; re-recording, Shelley Craig, Jean Paul Vialard.

Narrator, John Paskievich.

Recorded 1996.

If Only I Were an Indian... accompanies three Indigenous elders from Manitoba on a voyage to the Czech Republic as they relive their past through the native rituals and costumes adopted by their European admirers. Hesitation gives way to humour, fear gives way to friendship, and out of a common passion for the traditions of Indigenous Peoples in North America, a collective hope for the future is born.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Planete-Cable Award - with a cash prize of 10,000FF, 1997

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