Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle
MovieTitle | Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1998 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Peter C. Campbell , Christine Welsh |
Production country | US |
Production companies | Gumboot Productions INC. |
Run time | 44 min. |
This moving docu-drama explores the destructive effects Kuper Island Residential School had on the hundreds of Indigenous children sent there by government agents for almost a century. Now, twenty years after the school was closed, survivors of Kuper Island are embarking on a spiritual journey on Vancouver Island's Tsartlip Reserve to begin healing the deep psychological wounds inflicted by their residential school experience.