Winner at the 2024 Sundance Festival, Sugarcane is a searing documentary about violence against Native American children.
Following the discovery of unmarked graves on the grounds of a Catholic school in Canada in 2021, many other sites across North America were brought to public attention.
Part of the colonial plan to eradicate Native American culture, Native American children were removed from their families and “educated” in a most brutal fashion in Indian Boarding Schools. One of the goals was to prevent children from speaking their own language. Another goal was to suppress their culture. Many of these children died in the care of their white oppressors, often at the hands of church employees.
We are still reckoning with these crimes against children and the attempted destruction of any Native American language and culture to this day.
I hope you have the courage to watch this important piece of North American history which opened August 30th at the Kan-Kan Cinema in Indianapolis.
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