Barbara Todd Hager

In her search to find the stories of her ancestors' origins, Metis/Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager travels to eight of the oldest Indigenous sites in the Americas to find a connection between origin stories and scientific research.

Tomson Highway: Permanent Astonishment, inspired by his award-winning memoir Permanent Astonishment, follows Highway's extraordinary life, from his birth in a tent in northern Manitoba and years at residential school to his groundbreaking plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which transformed Canadian theatre.

In her search to find the stories of her ancestors' origins, Metis/Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager travels to eight of the oldest Indigenous sites in the Americas to find a connection between origin stories and scientific research.

Tomson Highway: Permanent Astonishment, inspired by his award-winning memoir Permanent Astonishment, follows Highway's extraordinary life, from his birth in a tent in northern Manitoba and years at residential school to his groundbreaking plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which transformed Canadian theatre.

Tomson Highway: Permanent Astonishment, inspired by his award-winning memoir Permanent Astonishment, follows Highway's extraordinary life, from his birth in a tent in northern Manitoba and years at residential school to his groundbreaking plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which transformed Canadian theatre.