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Leonardo DiCaprio & Appian Way Join ‘Nine Little Indians’ About Abuse At American Indian Boarding School
A decade in the making, the film will recount the story of schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at the Indian Mission School in South Dakota.
Almost a decade in the making, and currently in post-production, the film will recount the harrowing story of the nine Charbonneau sisters and their childhood schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota. Filmmaker Kring, best known for documentary End Of The Line: The Women Of Standing Rock, first turned her cameras on the story in 2016, when tribal members invited her to document the discovery of skeletal remains of missing children that had been unearthed during construction at the still-operational school. “We are delighted to partner with Tony Robbins and Shannon Kring on this profound film, which sheds light onto the egregious crimes that took place at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School,” Appian Way’s President Of Production Jennifer Davisson said.
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