Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Richard Cardinal died by his own hand at the age of 17, having spent most of his life in a string of foster homes and shelters across Alberta. In this short documentary, Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin weaves excerpts from Richard’s diary into a powerful tribute to his short life. Released in 1984-decades before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-the film exposed the systemic neglect and mistreatment of Indigenous children in Canada’s child welfare system. Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the 1986 American Indian Film Festival, the film screened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2008 as part of an Obomsawin retrospective and continues to be shown around the world.
Directed by Alanis Obomsawin - 1986 | 29 min
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This video is heartbreaking. Makes me want to be a foster parent so I can still love the children in the system and let them experience a real childhood. Rip Sweet Richard Cardinal.
There's a very short Do path between Want and Act. Perhaps, you will choose it for the next step of your Journey.
I am appalled that some of these so called "foster parents" would only get native children as free labour 😡 So many things I had no idea about in this documentary. A must see for all Canadians.
Heartbreaking. Unification with their parents should have been the main goal, and if it wasn’t attainable, then the siblings should have been adopted. Tearing native children away from their parents, family and siblings is genocide.
Made me cry :( I can feel the pain he had not been with his real parents to feel their love and enjoy the freedom of being a kid full of laughter. RIP Richard, you're in a good hand now with our God almighty.
Actually it was the Christian beliefs that did that poor boy in.
Christianity is Satanic
fyi
Powerful, cautionary documentary. I use this video in my child welfare class as a warning. "Could this happen today, why or why not?"
It's happening right now
It is still happening. Government CYA culture and a lack of initiative and resolve from band and community leaders. Many chiefs are now part of the blame for doing nothing except collecting pay cheques and neglecting to stand up for their people
RELIGION is the Problem
@@andrexadoh both governments conservatives n Liberals where both responsible then n now.
@@andrexadoh the government makes money off these children, not the band. Child welfare system is a billion dollar industry. That's why they did very little to return the child to his ppl.
And how much money did the fostering individuals pocket? Seems the Crothers, the Smiths, and the Keslers would have actually allocated it for Richard's needs and benefit, but what of the other 15 fostering individuals? The social worker who Richard had the misfortune of being a "client" or more likely "case load" of is also to blame. It is right to be angry with those fostering individuals who abused Richard, it is also right to be angry with the social worker, it is more tangible to be angered against them than it is against policies and practices. But the writers of those policies and practices, and the politicians who are supportive or complicit are also to be angered with.
Im in a child and youth care program they showed this video in class. The video was so heart breaking. I wanted to cry in class. I really had to hold back my emotions. But then after i felt stronger, stronger and want to help my FN children.
Chris, the biggest problem is a total lack of security, due to never being placed in a loving stable home. While First Nations people have an identity, Métis do not, as they belong to neither culture.
Granted I grew up mixed in the states, but the only thing I know for sure about my mothers adoption is that two catholic boarding school students stayed with my grandparents, and one had a miscarriage & the other had my mom.
However, my mom's mother by adoption was a Métis woman from Wisconsin, and my mom's father by adoption was a Prussian Jew. There is an inherited sorrow, which both of my mom's parents had for obvious reasons. This inherited sorrow & lack of belonging will probably be the biggest problems you will face when helping children...
"My FN children" is a problematic way to refer to the First Nation/ Indigenous youth living in your proximity. You do not own them, they are not yours.
Religion is a curse to humans
1:31 that’s a chilling image. He was so young, still a kid. Very sad. RIP🙏🏾
Sending a kid away forever cause they wet their bed... Speaks volumes. I suspect that wouldn't be the case if he was their birth child.
The people who were interviewed clearly did care. They asked for help but the system failed both Richard and the foster parents wanting support.
Religion is the bane of human existence
@@CPgrtthey didn't care enough
@@amandadeardorff5731He was cared for. I knew them. They asked for help not to have Richard removed.
@@CPgrt So sad , I wish they would have got help
You try to push European teaching and living on the natives that’s what’s wrong
its just boring who watch this boring documentry
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Yeah, but who asked? No one cares about your opinion.