My Auntie survived residential school. I need to gather her stories before she’s gone
As the pandemic threatens elders, Anishinaabe artist Sarain Fox sits with her auntie Mary Bell, a residential school survivor and family matriarch, to record the family's stories.
An intimate, urgent act of preserving an elder's memories and truth before they are lost.
With a pandemic threatening to take our elders, Sarain Fox gathers stories from her auntie and matriarch, Mary Bell, who holds the family’s history: the legacy, the trauma, the truth. #CBCShortDocs #AloneTogether #Inendi
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