A 30-minute colonial heist where the real theft is the history books themselves.
During 1864 in the Cariboo Mountains, hostility mounts between the Tsilhqot’in tribe and encroaching settlers seeking gold on the Chilcotin Plateau. Klatsassin leads an insurgency and evades capture. However, he is eventually lured with the gift of tobacco, take prisoner, tried for murder, and hanged.
Direction
Stan Douglas stages history like a crime scene you're walking through.
Cinematography
Cariboo Mountains shot like they're judging us. Guilt in every frame.
Director
Stan Douglas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Chilcotin War is barely taught in Canadian schools; this film is practically the syllabus.
Douglas intentionally cast non-Indigenous actors to mirror how settlers performed and stole Indigenous identity—controversial, deliberate, uncomfortable.
CA
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