{"id":1230,"date":"2011-10-15T19:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2011-11-28T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T09:27:17","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-ledger-an-indian-view-of-the-hudson%e2%80%99s-bay-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/2011\/10\/15\/the-other-side-of-the-ledger-an-indian-view-of-the-hudson%e2%80%99s-bay-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of The Hudson\u2019s Bay Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nfb.ca\/enclasse\/doclens\/visau\/index.php?mode=view&amp;language=english&amp;filmId=10465\" target=\"_blank\">The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of The Hudson\u2019s Bay Company<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 70 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Filmed in 1972 through the National Film Board of Canada for their Aboriginal Perspectives film collection, directors Martin Defalco and Willie Dunn investigate an Aboriginal perspective of how Canada\u2019s indigenous people have been impacted by colonialism, how land was acquired by the Crown, the commodification of Aboriginal culture by the Hudson Bay Company and popular culture, how the treaty process emerged, and reasons why\u00a0a cycle of dependency\u00a0through poverty was created. The resulting loss of voice in decisions affecting themselves and loss of pride in their culture continue to affect Aboriginal people today. Narrator George Manuel, who was president of the National Indian Brotherhood at the time, also demystifies the level of compensation awarded to Aboriginal people who were registered inhabitants of a reserve.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nfb.ca\/enclasse\/doclens\/visau\/index.php?mode=theme&amp;language=english&amp;theme=30662&amp;film=10465&amp;excerpt=612074\" target=\"_blank\">3:00 excerpt<\/a> is also available and can be a sufficient classroom resource to support teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Other Side of the Ledger: An Indian View of The Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u00a0&#8211; 70 minutes Filmed in 1972 through the National Film Board of Canada for their Aboriginal Perspectives film collection, directors Martin Defalco and Willie Dunn investigate an Aboriginal perspective of how Canada\u2019s indigenous people have been impacted by colonialism, how land was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[649,388214,6405,388213,6226,388215],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-aboriginal","tag-aboriginal-perspective","tag-colonialism","tag-hbc","tag-nfb","tag-treaty-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}