I'm well into research and writing on the representation of aboriginal subjects in English Canadian television series, anthology and specials and a Quebec colleague is looking at the same area in French for Radio-Canada. The early results look like we will have a touchstone for some of the cultural differences between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The CBC's Where the Spirit Lives has been sold to many countries and shown on PBS. It's about native residential Schools run by the Church in the 1930's and one young girl's resistance. Has anyone among our 417 subscribers seen it? Comments!. It also raises issues of cultural appropriation (no native writers, producers or directors, but made with wide consultation and with a native cast.) It's been repeated on the CBC four times. For you Canadians -- anyone remember the half hour anthology Cariboo Country (1960-67), the only Canadian Western, shot in the Chilcotin, set in the 1960's, not the 1880's and completely distinctive -- not an inflection of the TV Western that ruled the airwaves, but a whole other species. Any comment? You may remember Education of Phyllistine - a one hour special from that anthology that won prizes abroad, exposure on the BBC et al. Others from that period included Wojcek's "The Last Man in the World", Don Williams Death of Nobody (Winnipeg to the CBC net), Riel (GM presents - 2 parts) and Phil Keatly (Producer of Cariboo) producing and significantly shaping The Beachcombers which introduced the native character Jesse in the pilot and kept the motif of Salish/white interaction for 19 years. Another cluster is very recent -- Loyalties, Divided Loyalties, Justice Denied, Spirit (above) and Conspiracy of Silence: The Helen Betty Osborne Story. Comments Anyone? P.S. re p.c. Post Oka documents from specific "nations" like the Kwkieulth, of North West Coast BC use "aboriginal", "first nation", "first peoples", "native" and "indian" in the same paragraph. Indian is however not normally used by most of the native peoples themselves. Usage and self-perception is in flux up here. In Quebec Amerind is widely used. Mary Jane Miller Mary Jane Miller Dept. of Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. L2S 3A1 Phone (416) 688 5550, ext 3584, FAX (416) 682 9020, e-mail [log in to unmask]