Movie
Native Silence
2013
A quiet, heavy documentary that sits with painful memories and asks you to listen rather than look away.
- Directed by
- Jane Wells
- Overview
- Native Silence is a solemn account of the legacy of forced adoption on Native American children, torn from their tribal communities and placed in foster care and boarding schools. Joyce, a recovered drug-addict and now mental-health worker, and Paulette, a mother who 'doesn't associate' with the Natives in her town, were two such children. Their stories reflect the struggle that they and many others faced growing up as Native American within larger non-Indian culture.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, bleak, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Trauma, identity, family, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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