Leonardo DiCaprio And his banner Appian Way is supporting a new documentary that digs into one of the darkest corners of American history, abuse in the Native American collars.
The film is entitled Nine little Indiansand is directed by Shannon Kring And it was almost a decade in preparation. It is now in post-production and what is ready to reveal is heartbreaking.
At the center of the story are the Charbonneau sisters, nine brothers who, together with their childhood schoolmates, have undergone years of trauma at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, in the South Dakota.
The documentary traces their legal battle of almost 20 years against the Catholic Church, asking for responsibilities for abuses, cover -ups and lives lost silent.
Jennifer DavissonThe president of Appian Way’s production says that the company is all in telling this story: “We are pleased to collaborate with Tony Robbins and Shannon Kring in this deep film, which sheds light on the striking crimes that took place at the Indian mission school of St. Paul.
“We hope that this documentary honors the surviving victims and those who tragically died of the hands of the people who should have protected them more.”
Nine little Indians It also includes interviews with two former school nuns and the abbot who supervised the priests accused of rape and murder. One of the most heartbreaking stories is that of Geraldine’s son “Gerri” Charbonneau, conceived through rape and subsequently lost.
Kring began to document the story in 2016, after the tribal members asked her to film the discovery of the remains for children found during the construction at the school still active.
Kring has said: “In the last two decades, I have been entrusted to me hundreds of hours of burning testimonies on the effects of colonization. The most tragic stories can be traced back to the Indian boarding school system-a large American land socket and therefore a tool of genocide. It is time that we as a nation for this non-anti horror.
Nine little Indians It also includes a sub -tray following a surveyor of the northern cheyenne cemetery that seeks more tombs not marked at school. Tony Robbins, who spent time with survivors, Sahred:
“It is an honor to produce this film together with Shannon Kring and Leonardo DiCaprio, and having spent time with the Charbonneau sisters and their classmates in South Dakota.
“Their stories outraged me and are a testimony of the courage and resilience lined up of the original inhabitants of our country. I hope that Nine little Indians It inspires you as much as the survivors of the Indian school of St. Paul have inspired me. “
The American Indian colleges were a time for forced assimilation tools, which operate from the mid -16th century to the 20th. Their brutal inheritance has only recently started to be recognized in the media and view in series as 1923 and indie movies like The only good Indian.
A project like this could finally give voice to these tragic stories.
Source: deadline
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