October 10, 2014 NA 125 The film, Ikwe, was a part of a documented services titled, Daughter of the Country, directed by Norma Bradley in 1986. The film, Ikwe, features a young Ojibwa girl from the 1770s who is bargained off by her father to a Scottish fur trader. Ikwe leaves her home for the shores of Georgian Bay, which her now husband plans to establish a trading post. The union between Ikwe and the Scottish trader is beneficial for her tribe, in the form of guns and powder for protection and hunting. At first the union appears to be a good one although Ikwes visions tell of a tragic end. Throughout the film, Ikwe endures hardships and adapts to different customs. She bears three children to the Scottish trader. In the winter months Ikwe consoles her Scottish husband who is not used to the isolation that harsh winters can bring. As the years pass, more trade is established with the Indians who are now becoming accustomed to using the white mans tools and ways of hunting. There are Indians who have been taken as slaves to serve the traders and are kept in camps just outside the trading posts. Ikwe keeps remembering her vision of sickness and disease among her people. In the spring time, after the birth of her third child, her Scottish husband moves the family to a larger trading establishment. This is where they first come into contact with the disease that Ikwe envisioned. This is also the time when her Scottish husband sends her oldest son off to go to school. This was the turning point for Ikwe and her decision to leave the trading post and return to her people. Unbeknownst to Ikwe this was also the way sickness would travel to her village and kill most of the people. Once sickness took hold, Ikwe sent her daughter, who did not have any symptoms away to follow the river. In the end Ikwe knows this was the vision that be told a tragic end to the Indian people. Y, dXiJ(x( I_TS 1EZBmU/xYy5g/GMGeD3Vqq8K)fw9
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