La Sawndr akwa Mawtoowin [DVD videorecording] = Ashes and tears : The Green Lake story

Title
La Sawndr akwa Mawtoowin [DVD videorecording] = Ashes and tears : The Green Lake story

Summary
In the summer of 1949, the Metis families living on a road allowance near Lestock, Saskatchewan, were promised land, jobs and social assistance by government agents on the condition that they move to an experimental co-operative farm in the northern community of Green Lake. These families travelled over 500 kilometers in the hopes of a better future, but what they found in Green Lake caused them to leave in a matter of months.

Other Title
Ashes and tears
 
Green Lake story

Year Published
2011

Physical Description
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject
Métis -- Saskatchewan -- Green Lake region -- History.
 
Métis -- Saskatchewan -- Green Lake region -- Social life and customs.
 
Métis -- Government relations.

Geographic Term
Green Lake region (Sask.).

Added Author
Robillard, Ruth.
 
Livingstone, Matthew.
 
Brown, Jenny.

Added Corporate Author
Friends on the Outside.
 
Campion College.

Summary
In the summer of 1949, the Metis families living on a road allowance near Lestock, Saskatchewan, were promised land, jobs and social assistance by government agents on the condition that they move to an experimental co-operative farm in the northern community of Green Lake. These families travelled over 500 kilometers in the hopes of a better future, but what they found in Green Lake caused them to leave in a matter of months.

Publisher
Regina, SK : Friends on the Outside, 2011.


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