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"The Thick Dark Fog" Official Trailer

2012-06-04T15:02:05.295Z

Award winning documentary - The Thick Dark Fog.

Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were not allowed to be Indians – to speak their language or express their culture or native identity in any way at the risk of being severely beaten, humiliated or abused. What effects did these actions cause?

Many Indians, like Walter, lived with this unresolved trauma into adulthood, acting it out through alcoholism and domestic violence. At age 58, Walter decided to write and publish his memoirs as a way to explain his past abusive behaviors to his estranged children. But dealing with the memories of his boarding school days nearly put an end to it.

“The Thick Dark Fog” tells the story of how Walter confronted the “thick dark fog” of his past so that he could renew himself and his community.

For more information visit: http://www.thickdarkfog.com

Report: Indigenous Children Abused in Canada

2012-03-13T06:54:12.398Z

"They Came for the Children" is the title of a new report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which describes how Indigenous children were abused at residential schools set up by the government from the nineteenth century until the 1970s. i

Clip 3 Healing The Hurt and Shame Of Native Residential Schools

2010-09-20T05:16:51.862Z

This dynamic and heartfelt video documents the devastating effects of the Naive Canadian and Native American Boarding Schools that dramatically shattered aboriginal cultures, children, families and communities throughout North America. Viewers join Native American participants from Canada and the United States, during a four-day, culturally-based, healing process for understanding and recovering from this type of traumatic experience.

For information on how to obtain a copy of the Healing the Hurts Viideo please send an email to 4worlds@uleth.ca or call 1-604-542-8991

Remembering Residential School

2010-05-31T13:50:45.481Z

Four elders recount and discuss their experiences in residential schools.