WS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Finding Dawn
23 Oct 2016
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What is it about numbers: finding dawn class discussion. The 2006 documentary finding dawn by metis filmmaker christine welsh is landmarked with places in which the legacy of colonialism meets the experience of the modern indigenous woman. Critically investigates the social and political conditions of the missing and murdered indigenous women and the cultural climate that fosters such crimes. Uses interviews with family members, didactic exposition and specific narratives about a few of the victims, welsh is able to put a human face on those effected by this complicated atrocity. The experience of watching this film was acutely emotional. Welsh seemed intent on forcing her viewers to confront their assumptions about. Canada, to be replaced with an unsettling reality. The missing and murdered indigenous women have been growing in numbers in the aftermath of the last 1996 residential school closure. Emphasizes the historical catalysts that led the indigenous peoples to the epidemic of missing and murdered women and girls.
