The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission has described this as a cultural genocide.
Its one of the most significant, foundational chapters in North American history.
And yet people have heard very little about it.
Evidence suggests the possible presence of human remains on the grounds of some of the institutions.
This is such a present history, Kassie said.
When she said that, I was completely shocked.
We screened at the Canadian Parliament, BraveCat noted.
We screened in the White House, which was incredibly, incredibly special.
It was actually in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House, which is obviously symbolically significant.
Sometimes they escaped abuse by climbing up to an attic area.
The kids were used as child labor …
They would be taken and strapped to poles and brutally beaten until they passed out, Kassie said.
The top of the barn is a place where kids would go hide out …
So, this was a place of both horror, forced labor and of refuge.
Ascending to that haunted space, Kassie said, It felt as if the world had broken open.
It felt as if the film was connecting what we were experiencing there was a portal to something else.
And that became an integral part to how we told the story ofSugarcane.
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