After Tuesday nights screening, the filmmaking team received a letter from Pres.
Biden in which he reiterated his condemnation of the boarding school system.
The evening was capped by an impromptu drum circle performed by Chief Sellars and NoiseCat.
A screening of ‘Sugarcane’ in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office BuildingLeigh Vogel/Getty Images for National Geographic
The White House screening is the latest in a succession of honors forSugarcane.
They won the directing award for U.S.
Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, whereSugarcanepremiered.
White House
The film explores intergenerational trauma inflicted by the boarding school system.
The [Indian Residential] schools operated for over 150 years across the North American continent.
BraveCats grandmother attended the St. Josephs Mission boarding school in British Columbia.
She gave birth to a son there Julians father, Ed Archie NoiseCat.
So yes, it is a really awful history.
