Our totem is the raven

Duration: 21

Year Published: 1971

Creator: BFA Educational Media | Holt Rinehart and Winston | King Broadcasting Company | King Screen Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 16Feb72 · MP22401 (Jan-Jun 1972) Copyright holder: King Broadcasting Co

Description: Dramatizes the ordeal of an Indian boy in his endurance and ritual ascent to manhood. Shows how Indian customs clash with twentieth-century values, by giving some background into the Indian cultural heritage., Dramatizes the ordeal of a Native American boy in his endurance and ritual ascent to manhood. Shows how Native American customs clash with twentieth-century values, by giving some background into the Native American cultural heritage.

Complete Record: Dramatizes the ordeal of an Indian boy in his endurance and ritual ascent to manhood. Shows how Indian customs clash with twentieth-century values, by giving some background into the Indian cultural heritage., Features Chief Dan George in a contemporary tale of a young Indian boy's intitiation into manhood and his acceptance of his Indian heritage. Follows a grandfather and his urban grandson on a journey back to the tribal lands on the coast of the Pacific Northwest. Shows how the old man uses tribal customs to bring the unwilling teenager into an understanding of himself through the Indian's integrated vision of man and nature.