"Home From School" Documentary Screening

Description

Please join us for a community screening of Home From School: The Children of Carlisle. This will be the first time the full documentary film will be screened! Doors open at 5:30pm for this first come first serve opportunity to see the film. The film will begin at 6pm and a short panel and moderated Q&A will take place from 7-7:30pm. For health and safety of all attendees the CWC Theater will be at limited capacity and masks are required with COVID-19 vaccinations recommended. Thanks to Wyoming Humanities for making this event possible. For more information about the film: www.homefromschoolfilm.com https://www.facebook.com/events/2865757047017338?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man” was the guiding principle of the U.S. government-run Indian boarding school system starting in the late 19th Century. The program removed tens of thousands of Native American children from their tribal homelands, and through brutal assimilation tactics, stripped them of their languages, traditions and culture. The students were forced through a military-style, remedial education. Most children returned emotionally scarred, culturally unrooted with trauma that has echoed down the generations. Many students never returned home, having died at the schools. Home From School: The Children of Carlisle dives into history of the flagship federal boarding school, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and follows the modern day journey of the Northern Arapaho Tribe as they seek to bring home the remains of three children who died at Carlisle over 100 years ago. To move forward they need to heal from the past, and in doing so they forge the way for other tribes to follow.