The Ballad of Crowfoot

Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canadas first music video The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn a MikmaqScottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew the first allIndigenous production unit at the NFB The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19thcentury Siksika Blackfoot chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy The IFCs inaugural release Crowfoot was the first Indigenousdirected film to be made at the NFB