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In ‘Sugarcane’, “The Ghosts Come Home To Tell The Story” Of Indigenous Kids Abused At Indian Residential School – Contenders Film: The Nominees
Sugarcane, nominated for an Oscar, shined a light on the systematic abuse of Indigenous children at Indian Residential Schools.
“These were institutions that were actually founded in the U.S. with the idea to ‘kill the Indian and save the man,’ in the words of one of their original architects,” NoiseCat explained during an appearance with Kassie at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees. Kassie directed her attention to the St. Joseph’s Mission School in British Columbia, where Chief Willie Sellars of the Williams Lake First Nation had been pushing for an investigation into possible unmarked graves. And when you take the ladder up to those kind of [rafters] of the barn, what you find on the walls is etchings of children — dating back to 1917 — where they would mark their names, what reservation they came from, and in some cases they would count down the days until they could go home.”
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