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The Gift

Director Terril Calder (Métis)
Year 2011
Run Time 2min
Genre Animation
This stop-motion tale explores the historical question of whether smallpox-infected blankets were given by European settlers to Indigenous populations unwittingly, or as a deadly "gift." 

Director

Terril Calder (Métis)

Genre

Animation

Interest

Indigenous Filmmaker

Original Language

No Dialogue

Canadian Distributor

Vtape