Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture : Kuper Island Film
13 Dec 2012
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Hs 1002a - class 14 - tuesday, oct. 23. Questions on film kuper island: return to the healing circle". The film kuper island: return to the healing circleexplores the intergenerational impact of residential schools (igirs) on aboriginal peoples of canada. Specifically, it illustrates the destructive effects that the kuper island. Residential school had on the hundreds of aboriginal children who were forced there by government officials for almost a century. In this film, twenty years after the school was closed, survivors of kuper island embark on a spiritual journey to vancouver island"s tsartlip reserve to begin healing the deep psychological wounds inflicted by their residential school experiences. Through this journey, the film reveals a number of connections between the multiple burdens of colonization, the. Igirs and the health (mental, physical and spiritual) of aboriginal individuals, families and communities.
