Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises
(2006, 104 min.)
Director: Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki)

After nearly four decades chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, the filmmaker returns to the village on the Odanak Reserve where she grew up to craft a lyric account of her own people, the history and contemporary realities of the Abenaki.

Image credit: Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises. Abenaki basket-makers. © 2005 Musée des Abenakis d'Odanak. Alle rights reserved.; Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises. Abenakis children in traditional dress. © 2005 Alanis Obomsawin. Alle rights reserved.