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‘Sugarcane’ Filmmakers Still Have Questions About Infant Deaths At St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School – Contenders Documentary

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Filmmakers uncover horrors of abuse and deaths at Canadian residential school, but government still conceals crucial records.
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  • Sugarcane directors Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat expose cases of infants thrown into incinerators and buried in unmarked graves at St. Joseph's Indian Residential School.
  • Despite the film's revelations, the Canadian government continues to withhold important documents that could provide more answers about the atrocities that occurred at the school.
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Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat, National Geographic Documentary Films, Sugarcane
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