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WATCH: Sugarcane

Sugarcane is the award-winning debut documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie. The film follows the Williams Lake First Nation’s community-led investigation of the former St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School in BC - one of the first such institutions in Canada, run by the Catholic Church from 1891 to 1981.

During its operation, many Indigenous children experienced abuse or went missing at the school. Notably, Phyllis Webstad, whose story inspired Orange Shirt Day, is a survivor of St. Joseph's Indian residential school.

Stream the documentary through the Library's subscription to McIntyre Media.