Reservation 5 Spring: Visions and Transcendence - DVD

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This cinema verité series follows a year in the life of a First Nations reserve in the interior of British Columbia. Eleven intermarried families form the population of the 550 Shuswap at Alkali Lake. Struggling under the paternalistic system devised by the Canadian Government, they have never signed a treaty formalizing their existence and are forced to live like interlopers on their own land. Ill-equipped for the modern word, the reserve is both their prison and their sanctuary?and perhaps, the best hope for the preservation of their culture.

The filming follows 14 major characters, revealing the complexity of reserve life with its vast web of community, its contradictions, its nepotism, its feuds, its lingering malaise of long unspoken sexual abuse, but, ultimately, its deep well of spirituality.

Part 5.
Spring: Visions and Transcendence
Mike is in hospital in Vancouver, very sick, but determined to get home. He tapes a final message for his funeral video. Norma and Ivy begin their ritual preparations for the May Vision Quest. Sioux elders arrive to supervise a dozen individuals who will spend the next four nights alone on a mountain without food or water. Megga discusses Mikes return with the Band?s nurses. Kirk has a big hockey try-out. Debbie has a healing circle with the man she is convinced is Kirk?s Father. At the base of the mountain Fred sings to a baby under the stars. After four nights on the mountain friends and relatives welcome the fasters emotional return to the world; Ivy makes up his her ex-husband?s Mother after seven years. Mike returns home and watches his funeral video. After his death he lies in state in a teepee covered by a shroud bearing the image of his hero, Billy Idol. His funeral cortege is accompanied by the flight of cranes and the ceremony brings the factions on the reserve together.

52 minutes

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