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Original People, Original Television is the behind-the-scenes account of a little known revolution in Canadian broadcasting--a journey begun in 1922 with Nanook of the North, wending its way across generations and the width and breadth of the traditional territories of the Inuit, First Nations and M�tis; culminating in the 1999 launch of the world's inaugural Indigenous led broadcast, the Aboriginal Peoples' Television Network.

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Born and raised in Chapleau, a small community in north eastern Ontario, Jennifer David is a member of Chapleau Cree First Nation. She did a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism at Carleton University before starting her first job at Television Northern Canada (TVNC), made up of northern, mostly Aboriginal and Inuit broadcasters that distributed community-based programming across the North. When APTN launched, Jennifer became the network's first Director of Communications, based in Ottawa. She is currently the Vice President and Manager of Stonecircle Consulting, a First Nation management consulting company. She has written several nonfiction books and co-hosts a podcast called Storykeepers to talk about Indigenous books. Jennifer resides in Ottawa, Ontario with her family.

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