Fly on the Wall: Canada’s Residential School Legacy

November. 04,2021

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Indigenous Environment Social Justice

Trailer Synopsis Cast

For more than 100 years, thousands of Indigenous children died while in Canada’s residential school system. Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones survived, but he, like many others, experienced years of beatings and sexual abuse. The scandal has finally brought the Indigenous rights struggle into focus, none more so than at Fairy Creek, an area of forest on First Nations land that protesters are desperately trying to prevent from falling into the hands of logging companies.

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