If you’re an Indigenous Canadian or a Francophone living outside of Quebec, chances are good that you won’t even find your story on screen, let alone be satisfied with it. It’s rare that culturally sensitive stories about people who have been missing for centuries end up as prime-time television documentaries. “Genesis” is a documentary directed by Kelly Saxberg about a group of passionate people going against the grain. It’s a wry look at the perils of telling history through film and the tribulations of those who have embarked on this journey.

Through the adventures of voyageurs and the fur trade, Le printemps des voyageurs explores the alliance of Native American and European cultures on which our country was founded.
The historians who participated in the productions come from Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Men, women, French-speaking, English-speaking, Blackfoot, American, Métis. The multiculturalism of the team reflects that of the voyageurs and their descendants who are at the center of the story. The
voyageurs and their Métis families are part of the immense cohort of ordinary people who receive very little attention from official history.