Alanis Obomsawin

Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
	Obomsawin after recording Waseteg in 2010
Born	August 31, 1932
Occupation	Film director; musician (1973–1976); film producer; documentary filmmaker; visual artist; documentarian; film screenwriter; singer; creative director ;
Employer	National Film Board of Canada ;
Awards	Companion of the Order of Canada; Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts; Governor General's Performing Arts Award; Member of the Order of Canada; Order of Montreal; Prix Albert-Tessier; Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec; Edward MacDowell Medal; several honorary doctorates;
Position held	creative director (Mariposa Folk Festival, 1970–1976)

Alanis Obomsawin, CC GOQ (born August 31, 1932) is an Abenaki American-Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada, she has written and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations issues. Obomsawin is a member of Film Fatales independent women filmmakers.

Obomsawin relates that "the basic purpose [of her films] is for our people to have a voice [...] no matter what we're talking about whether it has to do with having our existence recognized, or whether it has to do with speaking about our values, our survival, our beliefs, that we belong to something beautiful, that it's O.K. to be an Indian, to be a native person in this country". Her best known documentary is Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, regarding the 1990 Oka Crisis in Quebec.

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