Ed Archie NoiseCat sitting outside and looking solemn in Sugarcane
The Big Picture In the opening scene of Sugarcane, a radio broadcast features a woman talking about the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a Residential School in Kamloops in 2021. She discusses how this "reopened old wounds for Indigenous families torn apart." But for those directly impacted by this system, these wounds were never healed in the first place.
Throughout Sugarcane, investigators Charlene Belleau and Whitney Spearing lead an investigation into the happenings at St. Joseph's Mission, Chief Willie Sellars fields hateful emails and talks to well-meaning politicians, and Chief Rick Gilbert travels to the Vatican to hear an official apology from Pope Francis.
Furthermore, there are no talking heads in Sugarcane, where subjects sit in front of a camera and talk the audience through their stories. Instead, we learn this information organically as the investigation unfolds into the cruel history of St. Joseph's Mission. We sit with the survivors in their grief as they confide in each other about the horrors they experienced, and we feel the pain of the investigators as they pore over documents detailing the unspeakable abuses.
'Sugarcane' Deserves To Be Seen by All Canadians We're often taught to look back on history as something that we simply shouldn't repeat, rather than something that trickles down through generations and continues to cause incredible pain. However, Sugarcane will not allow the past to be forgotten, and shows the resilience of Indigenous communities in Canada.
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