The film was the 2009 World Indigenous Film Awards Winner for Best Animation , and received the 2009 American Indian Film Festival Award , Best Animated Short . It received an award for Best Short Documentary at the 2009 Imagine Native Film Media Arts Festival , Toronto , and the TEUEIKAN Second Prize at the 2009 First Peoples ' Festival ( Land InSights ) , Montréal . The film was a finalist for the Writers Guild of Canada 2010 Screenwriting Award for Short Subjects
2009 American Indian Film Festival Award
American Indian Film Festival
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