A Way of Living Developed over Millennia. Edmund Metatawabin

Description

This episode of The Green Interview features Edmund Metatawabin, a Cree leader and author who has radical lessons for anyone trying to quit an oppressive, wage-based way of life, and for an industrial society that is struggling to become sustainable. This Green Interview covers an enormous range of subjects, providing alternative views of work, the economy, the nature of community, land ownership, and a community's long-term values and its sense of time. Metatawabin also gives a candid and horrifying account of his time in residential school, where he and so many others experienced cruelty and life-altering abuse.

Runtime

98 min

Genre

Date of Publication

[2014], c2013

Database

Films on Demand

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