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Ikwe is the title of the first film in the National Film Board's Daughters of the Country series. Set in 1770, the film traces the history of the fur trade in Canada through the eyes of a young Ojibwe woman living on the shore of Georgian Bay. A dream foretells the arrival of a strange man in her village. When the Scottish fur trader arrives in her village, Ikwe believes her life is destined. She marries the trader believing the union will prove beneficial to her village. But the isolation and her husband's lack of understanding prove to make life lonely and difficult for Ikwe. Devastation arrives in the form of smallpox and Ikwe is forced to send for child to safety. In this daughter lies the hope of a new people, the Metis. A DVD edition is also available.
