Our Home and Native Land

In 1992 the people of Canada had to vote Yes or No to a new constitution For the first time in their political history the Aboriginal people became part of the political process This film directed by Gil Cardinal himself a Metis half Cree half French Canadian follows Ovide Mercredi a charismatic and eloquent Cree Indian as he travels across the country cajoling explaining and sometimes confronting those who refuse to recognise the rights of his people in a reformed Canadian constitution