Description from TIFF 2013 catalog by Thom Powers:

For more than forty years, legendary documentary filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin has given voice to Canada’s First Peoples in such films as Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Rocks at Whiskey Trench and Our Nationhood. Her new film Hi-Ho Mistahey! addresses another pressing issue affecting this country’s First Nations communities: the shockingly low levels of elementary school funding and basic maintenance from Canada’s federal and provincial governments. Focusing on the Attawapiskat First Nation’s years-long campaign to bring their demand for safe, properly maintained schools and culturally based, equitable education to the world — culminating in a delegation of six First Nations US ambassadors travelling to Geneva to present at the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child — Obomosawin’s searing yet inspirational new film is another vital entry in a great filmmaker’s epic, ongoing chronicle of her people’s struggles and triumphs.