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Indigenous Peoples’ Month is the time to celebrate and raise awareness around Native American Peoples and their histories, cultures, and resilience through time.
The Hebron Academy Respect Team will be sponsoring a movie night screening: Dawnland. This film explores the devastating impacts that the state of Maine Child Welfare system has had on the Wabanaki people of North Eastern Maine. The movie also depicts cultural survival and resilience of the Wabanaki people.
More about Dawnland:
Dawnland is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people. The Wabanaki are the people who are there to greet the light, “the people of the dawn,” and their story brings to light how getting to the heart of the truth can offer a flicker of hope.