Is a provocative, high-energy journey through Aboriginal country showing you why we need to fix Canada's 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples; a relationship mired in colonialism, conflict and denial. With its energetic pace and stunning HD landscapes, 8TH FIRE propels you past prejudice, stereotypes and misunderstandings, to encounters with an impressive new generation of Aboriginal Canadians who are reclaiming both their culture and their confidence. 8TH FIRE recounts the history of Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples. It then goes past prejudice, stereotypes and misunderstandings, to encounters with an impressive new generation of Aboriginal Canadians who are reclaiming both their culture and their confidence and moving toward the future.

Date from disc surface. Title from CBC Learning website: 8th fire : Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & the way forward. Broadcast on the CBC television program Doc zone, 2012. Special features disc, includes: Intro with Wab Kinew, Metis identity, tragedy of Pikangikum, Lighting the 8th fire, six nations, how long these words last, REDress project, Sacred Heart Residential School, Nisga'a grieving, reunion.

Disc 1. Indigenous in the city / Written, produced and directed by Ryszark Hunka. It's time / Written, produced and directed by Neil Docherty -- disc 2. Whose land is it anyway? / Directed by Michel Philibert. At the crossroads / Directed by Paul Morin, Denis Paquet -- disc 3. Special features.