Starblanket

Directed by Donald Brittain · Starring Noel StarBlanket · 1973

A portrait of Noel Starblanket, a twenty-six-year-old Indigenous chief in Saskatchewan, negotiating grants with officials, campaigning and settling his reserve's affairs.

Donald Brittain's sharp portrait of a young, savvy chief playing the government at its own game.

At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His

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