Julian Brave NoiseCat's Oscar-nominated documentary
Sugarcane is about the mostly Catholic missionary boarding schools which Indigenous children, including older members of his family, were required to go to get "assimilated." Many were physically and sexually abused. While making the film and writing his new memoir, NoiseCat learned why minutes after his father was born, he was abandoned in a boarding school trash incinerator room. His memoir is
We Survived the Night.
Also, Grammy-winning Icelandic musician Laufey plays guitar and sings some songs for us.
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