Initial release June 2008 | ||
Directors Chip Richie, Gayle Ross, Dan Agent, Karl Tipre Crew Chip Richie, Gayle Ross, Dan Agent, Karl Tipre Similar The Trail of Tears: Cherokee, Black Indians: An American, Where the Spirit Lives, The Canary Effect, The Only Good Indian | ||
Our spirits don t speak english indian boarding school
Our Spirits Don't Speak English (2008) is a documentary film about the Native American boarding schools, which youths attended chiefly from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. It was filmed by the Rich Heape company and directed by Chip Richie. Native American storyteller Gayle Ross narrated the film. Ross is a descendant of John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Nation in the Trail of Tears period.
The film deals with both the schools run by Christian missionaries and those run by the United States' Bureau of Indian Affairs. It addresses the schools' role of forcing cultural assimilation of the resident children into the ways of the majority culture of European Americans.
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