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Where the Spirit Lives is a 1989 television film about Aboriginal children in Canada being taken from their tribes to attend residential schools for assimilation into majority culture. Written by Keith Ross Leckie and directed by Bruce Pittman , it aired on CBC Television on October 29, 1989. [ 2 ]
Films set in boarding schools, schools where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of " room and board ", i.e. lodging and meals. See also: Category:Films about orphans
Year Title Author ISBN Notes 1988: Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School: Celia Haig-Brown: ISBN 0889781893: One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.
The film centres on Saul Indian Horse, a young Canadian First Nations boy who survives Canada's Indian residential school system to become a star ice hockey player. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The film stars Sladen Peltier as Saul at age 6, Forrest Goodluck as Saul at age 15, and Ajuawak Kapashesit as Saul at age 22; along with supporting roles by Edna ...
“The fictional Barton Academy of the movie is constructed from five different schools: Groton, Northfield Mount Herman, Deerfield, St. Mark's, and a very beautiful public high school called ...
Bones of Crows is a 2022 Canadian drama film, written, produced, and directed by Marie Clements.The film stars Grace Dove as Aline Spears, a Cree woman who survives the Indian residential school system to become a code talker for the Canadian Air Force during World War II.
We Were Children is a 2012 Canadian documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system. [2] [3] [4]Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk and written by Jason Sherman, the film recounts the experiences of two residential school survivors: Lyna Hart, who was sent to the Guy Hill Residential School in Manitoba at age 4; and Glen Anaquod, who ...
Sugarcane is a 2024 documentary film, directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn. It follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.