'Sugarcane' documentary spotlights Indigenous resilience amid dark residential school history

"This is one of the foundational stories of North America," NoiseCat told ABC 13. "This is what happened to First peoples." The history of the residential schools is crucial to understanding Indigenous experiences today.

"This is how the governments that inherited this land attempted to separate us from our cultures and to separate us from our land," he said. The documentary emphasizes the systematic effort to erase Indigenous identities.

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