Sugarcane | LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE S2 Ep. 5

On this episode of LANDBACK FOR THE PEOPLE, Nick Tilsen invites filmmakers Julian Brave Noisecat (former NDN Collective Media Fellow) and Emily Kassie, directors of the award winning documentary SUGARCANE, to have the conversation on Indian boarding schools (known as residential schools in Canada) and its relationship with land back.

Boarding schools and education were weaponized in order to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream society. We’re asking our allies and accomplices to share this episode with your families and communities because it’s important to understand what has happened historically to our people. It is important to understand the trauma that still exists and how that has a direct correlation to the challenges that we face today.

SUGARCANE is NOW STREAMING on DISNEY+ and HULU.

About Sugarcane

A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life – SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie – is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. Set amidst a ground-breaking investigation into abuse and death at an Indian residential school, the film empowers participants to break cycles of intergenerational trauma by bearing witness to painful, long-ignored truths – and the love that endures within their families despite the revelation of genocide. (from: https://sugarcanefilm.com/about)

✊ Want To Learn More?

• Visit the SUGARCANE website
• Follow the film on Instagram

This episode was recorded on September 7, 2024.