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We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice
UNITED STATES · 2016

We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice

Alanis Obomsawin
Indigenous rights government discrimination child welfare human rights complaint federal funding
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Synopsis

The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which charged that the federal government's woefully inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children constituted a discriminatory practice.

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