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RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SERIES (SET OF 3)
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RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SERIES (SET OF 3)
SURVIVORS OF THE RED BRICK SCHOOL
It is estimated that over 100,000 aboriginal children attended residential schools in Canada. Survivors of the Red Brick School is a moving tribute to the courage of the Baptiste Family and to all the families who survived the trauma of Canada s hidden shame. Travel back to Cranbrook, BC, with the Baptiste family ,Osoyoos Indian Band, BC, as they revisit the school that changed their lives forever. This moving story takes you into the minds and hearts of Virg, Cindy, Bugs and Lloyd when they return as adults to face their living nightmare
KUPER ISLAND- RETURN TO THE HEALING CIRCLE
They sit in a raised clearing in the woods - grandmothers and grandfathers, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. Between them passes an eagle feather, and as the feather reaches each of them they begin to speak, heads bowed, and voices barely audible above the rustling of the leaves. They speak of a place and time far removed from the tranquility of these woods - a place whose name is seared into the collective memory of their people, a time that most of them have spent their lives trying to forget.
They called it Alcatraz. It was the Kuper Island Indian Residential School, a huge, four stories, red brick structure built on a remote island off the east coast of Vancouver Island - built to provide education and training for the children of the Cowichan Indian Agency and adjacent Coast Salish groups on southern Vancouver Island. The government funded, Catholic-run institution operated from 1890 until the mid-1970's when it was closed and later destroyed.
For many former students, the memories of Kuper Island are almost too painful to bear. Some recall picking rat feces out of their food before they ate it. Others buried their babies near the school grounds, babies that were the result of sexual abuse at the school. Still others remember children who died trying to escape their Island prison in canoes or on floating logs.
Until recently, few of them talked openly about their ordeal. But, like thousands of other aboriginal people across Canada and the United States, the former residents of Kuper Island are now beginning to break the silence and to speak out about the trauma of their residential school experience. For them, the time for healing has come...
CHILDHOOD LOST - THE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Childhood Lost examines the experiences of four individuals who were sent to residential schools when they were very young. While their stories represent different generations spanning over fifty years, they share a common sense of loneliness, despair and trauma.
We learn how some are coping with the many years of sexual abuse and the effects it has had on their lives. Each story is intensely personal. At the close of the documentary, the individuals are brought together for a chance to share their experiences. In the talking circle they share memories of pain and humour.
For each of them this is a healing journey. This is a journey that may never end.
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Childhood Lost examines the experiences of four individuals who were sent to residential schools when they were very young. While their stories represent different generations panning over fifty years, they share a common sense of loneliness, despair...
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They called it Alcatraz. It was the Kuper Island Indian Residential School, a huge, four stories, red brick structure built on a remote island off the east coast of Vancouver Island - built to provide education and training for the children of the Cowicha
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Travel back to Cranbrook, BC, with the Baptiste family (Osoyoos Indian Band, BC) as they revisit the school that changed their lives forever...when they return as adults to face their living nightmare.
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