Dawnland Screening and Panel Discussion

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Sterling Law Buildings (SLB), 127 See map
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identities. Can reconciliation help heal the scars from childhoods lost? Dawnland is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people.

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