Truth and Justice: Documentary Fiction about Canada's First Nations with James Bartleman and David Adams Richards
Hosted by Saint Laurent Academy's Richard Forsyth
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As Long as the Rivers Flow casts an unflinching eye on the self-destruction that often befalls residential school survivors and their children. . . . Impressive.
Two of Canada’s most gifted storytellers shed an intimate light on the unpleasant and inescapable treatment of our First Nations.
From James Bartleman, the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit. As Long as the Rivers Flow tells the story of a girl from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is “stolen” from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school.
When a terrible accident unsettles the peace in a small, tight-knit community, who will pay the price? Searing, brilliant and tension-filled, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, is a foreboding tale about truth, lies and justice.
