Artist Profile: Angelique Merasty
Documents & Presentations
Description
Biography of famed birch bark biter.
Humourous animated short involves a ill-equipped European "discovering" the Inuit homeland and promptly planting flags everywhere as a sign of ownership and an Inuit hunter's response. Accompanying material: The Bear Facts: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 3:58.
Guide to accompany film, The Bear Facts. Target audience Grades one to three in the subject areas of History, Social Sciences, First Nations and Humanities.
Historical note:
Joan Beatty was the first Aboriginal woman elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature. Prior to this Beatty had a career in journalism and production, as well as management at SaskTel.