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Summer of the Loucheux : A Portrait of a Northern Indian Family

Accession number: 
1983.0014

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Production Years: 
1983

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Length (feet): 
999 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
28
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University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta: 16mm.
"Portrays a modern northern Indian family returning to the nomadic ways of their ancestors. The family has set up a fish camp on the Arctic Red River and spends a month fishing, drying and smoking the fish in a traditional fashion. The grandmother explains the nomadic lifestyle when she was young and living in the area that stretched from Alaska to the Mackenzie River."

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS.
"SUMMER OF THE LOUCHEUX is the first documentary film to explore the culture of Canada's most northerly Indian people, the Gwich'in, formerly known as the Loucheux (Kutchin) of the Yukon and North West Territories. Focusing on 28-year-old Alestine André of Arctic Red River N.W.T., the film portrays four generations of the André family preparing dry fish at their summer camp on the shores of the Mackenzie River, near the Arctic Circle."