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‘Remaining Native’ Review: A Native American Takes Inspiration From Ancestors While Training for a Long-Distance Scholarship in Absorbing Doc
Paige Bethman’s absorbing documentary focuses on a Native American teenager inspired by his resilient ancestor to compete as a long-distance runner.
In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American children forcibly held in church- and state-run Indian Boarding Schools — ranging from the Taylor Sheridan-produced “1923” to the Oscar-nominated “Sugarcane” — for such historical overviews to comprise a subgenre. Indeed, as “Remaining Native” progresses, and the first waves of accounts about unmarked graves discovered at former Indian Boarding Schools hit the news, the horrors are exposed and the estimated death count escalates. One distraught Native American interviewee asks: “What kind of school has a cemetery?” That question is answered — repeatedly, in uncompromising fashion — as Yu and director Bethmann speak with survivors and their families about the physical and emotional scars that they continue to carry.
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