Kevin Alec

Directed by Beverly Shaffer · Starring Kevin Alec · 1977

An eleven-year-old boy on the Fountain Indian Reserve in British Columbia learns traditional skills from his grandparents, aunt and brother, from fishnet-making to hide tanning.

A gentle, intimate portrait of a First Nations childhood rooted in family knowledge and the land.

In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with his grandfather, and skin and tan hides with his aunt. He goes fishing wi

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