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A look at the lives of indigenous people around the world, plus Gaelic tales from right here in Scotland.

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On The Ice and Mesnak

The Last Dogs Of Winter (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2011; Director: Costa Botes; Stars: Brian Ladoon, Caleb Ross)

In 1976, Ladoon began a lifelong mission to protect and preserve the beautiful Canadian Eskimo dog – qimmiq – which is the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. This documentary tells Ladoon’s story and that of Caleb Ross, a young New Zealand actor who travelled to Churchill, Manitoba in search of adventure and stayed three years.

Mesnak (Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Yves Sioui Durand; Writer: Yves Sioui Durand, Louis Hamelin, Robert Morin, Yves Sioui Durand; Stars: Victor Turgeon, Eve Ringuette)

A young man goes looking for his birth mother and finds a troubled community in a land dominated by the turtle spirit.

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On The Ice (Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Writer: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Stars: Josiah Patkotak, Frank Qutuq Irelan, Teddy Kyle Smith, Adamina Kerr, Sierra Jade Sampson) , Official Site

After a fight in which their friend is killed, two Alaskan teenagers try to cover up what happened and keep their mutual secret.

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