complete the Crowfoot exhibit. In 2020, Crowfoot was one of eight finalists for the $5 polymer bills in Canada. The Ballad of Crowfoot Crowfoot was the subject of a ten-minute 1968 National Film Board of Canada documentary The Ballad of Crowfoot, directed by Willie Dunn. The film explores the situation of aboriginal people in North America through the story of Crowfoot, featuring a montage of archival photographs, etchings, and newspaper clippings, set against a ballad by Dunn, a Mi'kmaq singer and songwriter. Produced through the Indian Film Crew program, it was the first NFB film by an Indigenous director, and received several awards including a Gold Hugo for best short film at the 1969 Chicago International Film Festival. The Ballad of Crowfoot has sometimes been credited as the first known Canadian music video. Bibliography Hugh A. Dempsey, ISAPO-MUXIKA in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/isapo_muxika_11E.html. Allison Dempster, Chief Crowfoot's Regalia to Return Home to Alberta, CBCnews 2014, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/chief-crowfoot-s-regalia-to-return-home-to-alberta-1.2654211 References External links Watch The Ballad of Crowfoot at NFB.ca 1830 births Native American leaders 1890 deaths 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis Indigenous leaders in Alberta Siksika Nation people Tuberculosis deaths in Alberta Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Pre-Confederation Alberta people People of Rupert's Land Numbered Treaties