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Action • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 1)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to action.
Alice in Big Noses' Land
This documentary follows filmmaker Nicole Giguere and her adopted Chinese daughter Alice, as they and many of their friends face the challenges of living in North America within a hybrid family.
Animals • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 1)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to animals.
Being Healthy • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 3)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to being healthy.
![The Boy Inside [43 min educational version with teachers study guide]](images/products/product_info/Adam underwater.JPG "The Boy Inside [43 min educational version with teachers study guide]")
The Boy Inside [43 min educational version with teacher's study guide]
Filmmaker Marianne Kaplan tells the personal and often harrowing story of her son Adam, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome.
The Boy Inside [47 min version]
Filmmaker Marianne Kaplan tells the personal and often harrowing story of her son Adam, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome.
Canoeing in the City • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 3)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to canoeing.
Castaways
This beautifully animated film sensitively portrays an experience of alcoholism in the family from a child's perspective. A stimulating and serious film for discussions on alcoholism and the children affected by substance abuse.
A Child's Best Friend
After all the adults have left the room, a little girl sits on the couch and confides in her teddy bear.
Clothing • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to clothing.
Colours • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to colours.
Coyotes in the City • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 3)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to coyotes.
Don't Be a Bully
Riley Inge, formerly on stage with the Motown group The Temptations, wrote and directed this short drama that educates both children and adults about bullying and violence.
Family • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 1)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to family.
Feast • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)
Nehiyawetan means "Let's speak Cree". This dynamic six part series combines live action and animation in an innovative approach to making the Cree language accessible to young children. It follows a group of Aboriginal children as they learn to speak Cree in the city. The approach taken reinforces learning through play, music, adventure and storytelling. Nehiyawetan: Let’s Speak Cree promotes language retention, offers a Cree perspective of the world and encourages smart choices about living in the city.Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to the feast.
Fun • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 1)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to fun.
Gender Blender: Dialogues of Hope
In this youth-driven documentary, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students at a high school in the town of Hope, British Columbia explore issues they face at their high school. The film project created a dialogue among students and the community as a step toward eliminating bullying.
Greetings • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 1)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to greetings.
Henry's Glasses
In this short drama, a young boy in a Japanese Canadian internment camp comes to understand how sharing something beautiful can help another to cling to hope in the darkest moments.
In the Garden • Nehiyawetan: Let's Speak Cree (Series 2)
Introducing Cree vocabulary to young children, featuring words related to the garden.
Labelled
The power and damage wrought by labelling children is front and centre in this short animation with puppets.
Little Boy Blue
This documentary blends startling statistics with expert testimony and a mock public service announcement to deliver a hard message to swallow about rising antidepressant use among children.
Made in China: The Story of Adopted Chinese Children in Canada
Made in China tells the story of several remarkable children from China between the ages of five and thirteen who make three regions of Canada-British Columbia, Québec, and Newfoundland-their new home.
