Join host, Tantoo Cardinal (Dances With Wolves), as she explodes the myths and traces the tragedy and triumph of being a Canadian Aboriginal on screen in the one-hour documentary Dream Makers.

Canadian Aboriginal icons including Tom Jackson, Gordon Tootoosis, Lorne Cardinal, Greg Coyes, Dakota House, Gerald Auger, Nathaniel Arcand, Graham Greene, Willie Littlechild, Murray Jurak, Jimmy Herman, Stacy Da Silva and August Schellenberg examine the offensive and narrow-minded portrayals in early Westerns, the groundbreaking 1970 feature Little Big Man, Kevin Costner’s Academy Award-winning film Dances with Wolves, the popular television series North of 60, Dreamkeeper, Into the West and many more.

Tantoo and her guests provide poignant insight into the pivotal moments in film and television’s depiction of Aboriginal people.