National Geographic film is an uncompromising interrogation of systemic abuse in the country’s residential schools
In the 1890s, the Canadian government devised a solution for what was chillingly termed “the Indian problem”. Children from indigenous communities were removed from their families and sent to church-run boarding schools, where they were made to learn English and practise Catholicism. Abuse — physical, psychological and sexual — was rife at these sites, at which some 3,000 children are known to have died in the century up to the last school closure in 1997.
The film focuses as much on the sharing of long repressed memories as on the official investigation into the schools. We hear testimonies of inhuman cruelty and crimes, as well as the shadows cast by these horrific experiences. Some of the interviewees discuss struggles with alcoholism and feelings of internalised guilt which stopped them from seeking help .
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