The story follows investigations around Indigenous killings at federally-funded boarding schools
In a scene from the documentary “Sugarcane,” Chief Willie Sellars digs a grave for a community member who took his own life on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. In 1894, the Canadian government established segregated boarding schools and forced indigenous children into them, in the words of one of the film’s opening text cards, “to get rid of the Indian problem.”
“Sugarcane” follows residents of the Sugar Cane reservation in British Columbia as they mourn the systematic assault, abuse and killing of Native American students in boarding schools that began nearly 130 years ago. Today, the effects of those heinous acts still reverberate throughout the community. Much of the film focuses on William Lake Nation’s investigation of St. Joseph’s Mission and the community’s response to these developments.
Prominent interviewees — including Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars and former chief Rick Gilbert, show the different ways people approach injustice and strife. The film is dedicated to Gilbert, as he passed away before wide distribution of the film.
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