A Way of Life

Dorothy Mesher uses 10 photographs she cherishes and keeps in a metal box, which belonged to her mother, to share memories of her youth.

5 min 18 s

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2018

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In this brief but heartfelt black and white documentary we meet Dorothy Mesher, who grew up in the ever-changing Kuujjuaq of the 1930s and 1940s. Mesher uses 10 photographs she cherishes and keeps in a metal box, which belonged to her mother, to share memories of her youth.

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2018

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Indigenous peoples:

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Inuktitut, English

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English

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