Dancing Around the Table, Part One

Dancing Around the Table: Part One provides a fascinating look at the crucial role Indigenous people played in shaping the Canadian Constitution. The 1984 Federal Provincial Conference of First Ministers on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters was a tumultuous and antagonistic process that pitted Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and the First Ministers—who refused to include Indigenous inherent rights to self-government in the Constitution—against First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders, who would not back down from this historic opportunity to enshrine Indigenous rights. The conference was Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s last constitutional meeting before he resigned and the process was handed over to his successor, Brian Mulroney.

Cast

Pierre Nadeau

Narrator

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Self

Crew

Séraphin Bouchard

Assistant Camera

François Vincelette

Assistant Camera

Yvon Benoît

Location Sound Recordist

Maurice Bulbulian

Editor

Andrew Koster

Location Sound Recordist

Roger Lamoureux

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Sophie T. Lindsay

Administration

Jacques Tougas

Assistant Camera

Yves Gendron

Location Sound Recordist

Nicole Côté

Administration