Jamie Sarkonak: The National Film Board’s race-based licensing regime – National Post

Sep 08, 2025

Non-Indigenous filmmakers need special approval to use archive footage of Indigenous people in commercial productions. It’s unfair

Many Fires and wife, Blackfoot, at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede in Alberta, circa 1920s. Many Fires’ horse, a pinto mare, was valued higher than any horse of another colour. Photo by Courtesy, Glenbow Archives, NA-667-96

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