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Wind Energy/Run-of-River Hydro-electricity/Mapping Indigenous Plants: Episode 204

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This title is a part of the series Down2Earth Series: Season 2


Catalogue Number:  AP0020
Producer:  Aarrow Productions
Producing Agencies:  Aarrow Productions Inc.
Subject:  Canadian Social Studies, Documentary, Environmental Studies, First Nations Studies, Geography, Science, Social Studies
Language:  English
Grade Level:  9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  2013
Running Time:  21:00
Closed Captions:  Yes


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Wind Energy/Run-of-River Hydro-electricity/Mapping Indigenous Plants: Host Steve Sxwithul'txw travels to Manitoulin Island to learn how the M'Chigeeng First Nation became the first Aboriginal community in Canada to operate a wind-powered turbine. Then Steve heads to Tofino to visit the Tla-o-quiaht First Nation's Canoe Creek hydro-electricity project. Down2Earth's ethnobotanist, Leigh Joseph, travels to an island on the west coast of Canada to find out how the Songhees First Nation is mapping the plants in its territory.

Filmmaker Bio: Barbara Todd Hager is a writer, producer and director. Her family traces its Métis ancestry to Red River, Fort Pitt and St. Paul des Métis Settlements. In 1999 she launched Aarrow Productions and it has grown into one of Canada’s leading Indigenous-owned media companies.


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