Some Natives of Churchill

Directed by Cynthia Scott · 1973

In Churchill, Manitoba, a grain-shipping boom reshaped life for Indigenous and Inuit residents; locals reflect on the changes and on why they chose to stay.

Frank, wry local voices offer a rare 1970s view of change in a remote northern town.

This short documentary zooms in on Churchill, Manitoba, on the western curve of Hudson Bay. The town boomed for a while after it became the railhead seaport for the shipment of Prairie grain. It also changed the way of l

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