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8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & the Way Forward is a Canadian broadcast documentary series, which aired in 2012. Featuring television, radio and web broadcasting components, the series focused on the changing nature of Canada's relationship with its First Nations communities.[1]

The television component aired as a four-part documentary hosted by Wab Kinew as part of CBC Television's Doc Zone,[1] while radio programming devoted to First Nations themes aired on a variety of CBC Radio series and the web component included content from a variety of contributors, including news coverage by CBC News reporters and a series of short films by 20 First Nations, Inuit and Métis reporters and filmmakers. The soundtrack for the documentary series was composed by Cris Derksen.

The series was a shortlisted nominee for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program, and for Best Cross-Platform Project, Non-Fiction, at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.

Episode

8th Fire Episode 1 - Indigenous in the City[2]

8th Fire Episode 2 - It's Time![3]

8th Fire Episode 3 - Whose Land is it Anyway?

8th Fire Episode 4 - At the Crossroads

References

  1. [1]
    "CBC series 8th Fire aims to dispel native stereotypes" Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, January 17, 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Indigenous in the City". curio.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  3. [3]
    "It's Time!". curio.ca. Retrieved 2021-10-19.


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