Toronto filmmaker and actress Michelle St. John’s searing documentary on First Nations issues cuts to the core of what it means to be Canadian. Colonization Road, airing tonight and streaming thereafter on CBC’s Firsthand, follows the history of Ontario roads and how they changed indigenous peoples’ lives. Anishinaabe comedian and activist Ryan McMahon takes us to his small hometown of Fort Frances, Ontario, northwest of Lake Superior. The town’s main thoroughfare is called Colonization Road, raising ancient memories of First Nations falling under the weight of “settler” culture and politics 400 years ago. St. John saw the sign on a trip...read more...
- 1/26/2017
- by Anne Brodie
- Monsters and Critics
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