A PTN has acquired the docuseries Treaty Road, scheduled to wrap production across multiple provinces next month.

Directed and produced by Plains Cree filmmaker Candy Renae Fox from the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan, the 6 x 60 minute series explores the history of treaty signings between 1871 to 1921.

Métis writer-director-producer Saxon de Cocq of southern Alberta Region 3 hosts the docuseries with multidisciplinary artist Erin Goodpipe of the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation. He is also a producer on the series under 3 Story Pictures alongside Ell McEachern and Hannah Hermanson. The prodco operates in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Financial support for Treaty Road has been provided by the Canada Media Fund and Creative Saskatchewan. Doug Cuthand of Blue Hill Productions will executive produce the project.

Production on  Treaty Road began in October 2022 and will wrap in March. Principal photography has taken place across Treaty 1 through 6 territories in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, according to a news release. It is expected to air on APTN later this year.

Born out of de Cocq’s research into his Métis ancestry and the discovery that Manitoba politician James McKay was his ancestor, the docuseries delves further into McKay’s involvement in many of the Numbered Treaty negotiations, culminating in McKay’s ascent to Treaty Commissioner.

Fox said in a statement that the docuseries is a “tool for understanding… what the treaty relationship was actually meant to be.”

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