A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning.
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00:00I have felt dirty as Indian all my life in residential school.
00:19Look at that, it's all names.
00:24When you're brought up in an institution like the Catholic Church, you have strict rules
00:29and you went with their ethics.
00:34I've been trying to find out what happened at St. Joseph's Mission.
00:41Everything was so secretive.
00:45My dad was born there.
00:50How did it happen?
00:52It's not something that you want to open up, you know, it just keeps on damaging.
01:00For decades there were reports of neglect, children dying or disappearing from this facility.
01:06Two girls drowned, priests were moved around, why are they dying?
01:11Did they think we'd be stupid all of our lives, the rest of our lives, that nobody would ever
01:16find out these things?
01:28Being sorry for something is just the first step, you have to take action.
01:37We see the impacts in our community every single day and we need to continue to hold
01:42each other up.
01:47Julie and I ask you to open your heart, our people are going to stand up.
01:56Your story is someone who was abandoned, but also who abandoned.
02:02You do know what happened with me, right?
02:07I want to know the whole story.