ABOUT THE FILM
Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Shannon Kring’s wrenching, vital documentary tells the story of a family’s decades-long fight for acknowledgement, justice, and healing after the abuses they suffered in the American Indian boarding school system. In 2008, the nine Charbonneau daughters sought restitution for the appalling physical, emotional, and sexual abuse that they had endured decades earlier at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota—one of many such American Indian residential schools that proliferated in the U.S. and Canada from the early 19th through mid-20th centuries with the explicit goal of assimilating Native American children to white Christian society and culture.