Alanis Obomsawin's Trick or Treaty? considers recent events of the Idle No More movement with a look back at the 1905 agreement Treaty 9.
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Tell me about yourself,” says an off-screen Alanis Obomsawin to Randy Horne, the subject of her short documentary Spudwrench: Kahnawake Man (1997). This type of inquiry is, of course, essential to any
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