8TH FIRE is a 4-part, provocative, high energy journey through Aborginal country showing why we urgently need to fix Canada's 500 year-old relationship with Indigenous peoples. It's a relationship now mired in colonialism, conflict and denial. With an energetic pace and stunning landscapes, 8th FIRE propels you past prejudice, stereotypes and misunderstandings, and introduces you to encounters with an impressive new generation of Aboriginal Canadians who are reclaiming their culture and their confidence. The title for the series draws from the Anishinaabe prophecy that declares now is the time for Aboriginal peoples and the settler community to come together and build the 8th Fire of justice and harmony. Aboriginal people are the fastest growing population in Canada. More than half now live in cities. Those still struggling on reserves in Third World conditions are demanding a share of the vast mineral and energy resources in their midst. Hosted by the dynamic journalist and musician, Wab Kinew, from the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation, this 4-disc HD series is an encounter with fascinating, complex people--as diverse as Canada itself, 8th FIRE offers the way forward to a second chance to get the relationship right.

Indigenous in the city (episode 1): Introduces a diverse cast of indigenous characters living in the cities. They are united in a shared bond as Canada's First Peoples and in their determination to reassert their culture within a wider population of non-indigenous Canadians.

It's time (episode 2): The ancient Wampum belts hold a clue to the future. The Supreme Court of Canada now confirms the promises they hold as the truth. The First Nations of this country were not conquered. They signed treaties to share the land, and this means Aboriginal people must be consulted and accomodated when anyone wants to dig, explore or develop on their land--container.

Whose land is it anyway? (episode 3): There's no getting around it. Land is the biggest sticking point in the relationship between Aboriginal peoples in Canada and the "settler" population. Who owns it, benefits from it, gets to say when, if and how it gets developed? These questions are all the more crucial because the lands in dispute sit on a treasure-trove of resources, which the world is eager to buy from Canada. But don't despair. This episode...explores the creative ways of working this out--container.

At the crossroads (episode 4): A fascinating range of artists, activists and business people take us through ways to shed the colonial past, build new pathways in education and economic development. This is all in pursuit of a new relationship to replace 500 years of conflict and injustices--container.