Julian Brave NoiseCat, co-director of the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary 'Sugarcane,' talks about telling his family's story and its connection to an Indigenous boarding school in British Columbia.
“ Sugarcane ,” an award winner at the Sundance Film Festival , will be shown as one of Sundance’s Local Lens free screenings.
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie celebrate for Directing U.S. Documentary “Sugarcane” at the Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony in Park City, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024.the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, “a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies.
A statue of Mary and Baby Jesus looks over St. Joseph's Mission, a former Indian residential school near Williams Lake, British Columbia, where a search for unmarked graves of former students is underway.As they began working on the documentary, NoiseCat learned more about his family members’ experiences at St. Joseph’s that he didn’t know before — particularly, his father’s background.
Ed Archie NoiseCat grapples with the shocking truth of his secretive birth at St. Joseph's Mission Indian residential school, in a moment from the documentary "Sugarcane." It’s a motif that’s prevalent in “Sugarcane” — the lack of conversation about these events. In NoiseCat’s family, it’s examined through the lens of three generations.
“The point is that if you’re looking in the ground, if you’re solely looking at the past, you’re missing a story,” he said. “It’s not something that we talk about, particularly here in the United States, there were over three times as many Native American boarding schools,” NoiseCat said. Lack of education on boarding schools, he said, is outrageous, adding, “this is a foundational story to North America.”
“This is really profound when you think about it, from an Indigenous point of view, we actually get to live our stories,” he said. “The stories that we choose to tell are ones that we choose to witness or ones that we choose to be a part of.”
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