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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 ...
The Fallen Feather: Indian Industrial Residential Schools Canadian Confederation: Documentary feature: Randy N. Bezeau: A 93-minute documentary that provides an in-depth critical analysis of the driving forces behind the creation of Canadian Indian residential schools. [8] 2007: Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide: Documentary ...
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [b] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
WaaPaKe ("Tomorrow") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jules Arita Koostachin and released in 2023. [1] The film explores the intergenerational impacts that the Canadian Indian residential school system has continued to have on generations of indigenous people who were not themselves students in the system, but have still been deeply scarred by it because of its effects on their ...
Sleeping Children Awake is a Canadian feature-length, documentary video outlining the history of the residential school system and its effect on generations of First Nations’ people. The video was first released in 1992, to a premiere theatrical screening and broadcast on Thunder Bay Television. The documentary has a running time of 50 ...
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.
According to a 1953 survey, 4,313 children of 10,112 residential school children were described as either orphans or originated from broken homes. [32] The sole residential school in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was one such school, taking in children whom child welfare agencies believed to be at risk. There is an ...
Inendi is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Sarain Fox and released in 2020. [1] Created in part as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and the risk that the stories and experiences of Indigenous community elders could be lost if not documented, the film documents Fox interviewing her elderly aunt, Mary Bell, about her experiences as an Indian residential school ...