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A century of genocide in the Americas : the residential school experience
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2002
Video > Film
Related Schools
Kamloops (BC), St. George's (BC)
Contributors
Gibbons, Rosemary; Thomas, Dax; Oleman, Gerry; Native Voices Public Television Workshop; No Damn Eagles Productions; Quatica Films
Description
"This film tells the story of Native American children being taken from their parents and forcibly sent to residential schools in Canada and the United States. The film includes a quotation from the Genocide Convention which prohibits forcibly taking the children away from their parents because of their race."

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Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
Statement of Responsibility
a film by Rosemary Gibbons.
Publication Information
[Place of publication not identified] : No Damn Eagles Productions; Quatica Films, 2002
Physical Description
1 videocassette (18 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Notes
Title from cassette label. Includes bibliographical references.
Native Voices presents a film by Rosemary Gibbons and Dax Thomas.
Narrated by Gerry Oleman, survivor of Kamloops R.S.
Projected image (pgr); videorecordcing (vid); VHS tape (vhs).
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