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NFB series pack emotional punch

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After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

NFB series pack emotional punch

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After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

NFB series pack emotional punch

Page R10

After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

NFB series pack emotional punch

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After watching the national Film Board series Daughters of the Country in the mid '80s, a film reviewer commented that "not much has changed in 200 years." He was referring to the attitudes between white and Native society detailed in the series. It's been six years since that review, and sadly, still not much has changed.

Films on women inspired artist

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Artist Heather Shillinglaw never expected to be so moved by a film. But something asbout "Places Not Our Own," a film that chronicles the social ostracism

of a Metis family forced to live as squatters in the 1930's, touched a raw nerve.

The result was an artwork entitled "The Traveller," one of 14 emotionally turbulent works inspired by a series of films on Metis woman. "The artwork is my emotional response to the portrait of Metis woman as portrayed in the films," Shillinglaw said.

Films on women inspired artist

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Artist Heather Shillinglaw never expected to be so moved by a film. But something asbout "Places Not Our Own," a film that chronicles the social ostracism

of a Metis family forced to live as squatters in the 1930's, touched a raw nerve.

The result was an artwork entitled "The Traveller," one of 14 emotionally turbulent works inspired by a series of films on Metis woman. "The artwork is my emotional response to the portrait of Metis woman as portrayed in the films," Shillinglaw said.

Films on women inspired artist

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Artist Heather Shillinglaw never expected to be so moved by a film. But something asbout "Places Not Our Own," a film that chronicles the social ostracism

of a Metis family forced to live as squatters in the 1930's, touched a raw nerve.

The result was an artwork entitled "The Traveller," one of 14 emotionally turbulent works inspired by a series of films on Metis woman. "The artwork is my emotional response to the portrait of Metis woman as portrayed in the films," Shillinglaw said.