Connect with immediate support options below and explore additional resources for survivors, educators and audiences who want to learn more.
RESOURCES
HOST A WATCH CIRCLE
We invite you to host a watch circle – an informal group viewing of the film where friends, family and community discuss and process together. Find tips and suggestions below for talking about the film, getting support and taking action.
Let us know you’re watching by sharing a pic of your group on Instagram and tagging @sugarcanefilm and #SugarcaneFilm. (Don’t have Instagram? Share your photo with us at [email protected]
We want to hear from you: Take our audience survey here.
If you need support, the following resources are available:
CANADA
The National Indian Residential School Crisis Line provides 24-hour crisis support to former Indian Residential School students and their families toll-free at 1-866-925-4419.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis seeking immediate emotional support can contact the Hope for Wellness Help Line toll-free at 1-855-242-3310, or by online chat a hopeforwellness.ca.
In British Columbia, contact the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) Lamathut Crisis Line: 1800-721-0066.
UNITED STATES
Call or text 988 or visit www.988lifeline.org to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Visit the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) website for US-focused healing resources.
NEW ZEALAND/AOTEAROA
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand: Free call or text 1737 for support from a trained counsellor, anytime. It’s completely confidential.
Te Hiringa Mahara (Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission): Kaitiaki of mental health and wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Health New Zealand: The Access and Choice programme provides free mental wellbeing support services. If your thoughts, feelings or actions are negatively impacting your health and wellbeing you can contact a provider.
Māori health – Hauora Māori: Working to transform our health system, because every person deserves to receive quality care that meets their needs. For too long, Māori have been left behind. A more equitable system will uplift the health and wellbeing of not only whānau Māori, but of all New Zealanders.
- Access support – there is 24/7 support available for survivors of residential schools and their loved ones. Access US resources | Access Canadian Resources
- Share your experience with the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Oral History Project, which is building a permanent oral history collection.
- Host a community screening of SUGARCANE, with supportive resources.
- Learn about this history – view interactive maps and histories from the United States and Canada, as well as federal reports and relevant reading. For the United States: National Native American Boarding School Coalition | For Canada: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Educate yourself about the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act, which would establish a federal commission to conduct a full inquiry into the assimilative policies of U.S. Indian boarding schools.
- Bring this history into your classroom by screening the film for your students.
- Access lesson plans and other curriculum materials about Canadian residential schools and US boarding schools.