Sept 20 In 2020, the Toronto International Film Festival named the winner of this year’s People’s Choice award. The honour went to “Nomadland,’’ a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand that tells the story of a woman travelling the American West alone in her van. Filmmaker Michelle Latimer had a double win for her documentary “Inconvenient Indian.” The adaptation of Thomas King’s non-fiction book picked up the People’s Choice Documentary Award, as well an Amplify Voices Award. Latimer said she planned to divide the $10,000 cash prize between five emerging Indigenous artists. Sept 22 In 1877, Chief Crowfoot signed an important treaty with the government of Canada. Crowfoot, feeling threatened by the deluge of unruly American traders in the area, put his mark on “Treaty Number Seven” which gave…
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