For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones...
The carefree childhood existence of an Indigenous brother and sister is torn apart when the sister is forced to attend a Residential School far from...
On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in...
This Peabody Award-winning documentary from New Mexico PBS looks at the European arrival in the Americas from the perspective of the Pueblo Peoples.
Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.
In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who...
A young boy finds himself alone in the forest, fighting for survival, after escaping a residential school.
Young native Indian Shi-Shi-Etko will soon be taken away from her home to begin her formal western education at a residential school, which were...
The testimonies of the Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu women's committee punctuate this intimate short film about mourning and healing. Throughout the...
Filmed on the island of Haida Gwaii, this documentary depicts the ongoing resistance and resurgence of the Haida people and their culture against the...
Muffins for Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story of personal and cultural survival. McLaren tells the story of her own...
This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of...
