Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Upstream Productions
Lighting the 7th Fire on the Web:Official Website
Lighting the 7th Fire
WriterSandra Osawa
48 minDocumentary
Plot
A Chippewa prophecy foretells a time called the 7th Fire when lost traditions will be recovered. Native American filmmaker Sandra Sunrising Osawa examines how the Chippewa Indians of Northern Wisconsin have struggled to restore the centuries-old tradition of spearfishing — and the heated opposition they have encountered.
