Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle (1998)

This moving docu-drama explores the destructive effects Kuper Island Residential School had on the hundreds of Indigenous children sent there by government agents for almost a century. Now, twenty years after the school was closed, survivors of Kuper Island are embarking on a spiritual journey on Vancouver Island's Tsartlip Reserve to begin healing the deep psychological wounds inflicted by their residential school experience.

Released

1998-01-01

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

44 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Peter C. Campbell, Christine Welsh