Monumental: A Space for Healing
An uplifting short film about a group of residential school survivors who reclaimed part of their former high school grounds for a Monument and Commemorative Gathering Place. Together they built a unique place to learn, to get together, and to remember the over one thousand young people who were sent to Assiniboia Residential School in Winnipeg.
Featuring:
Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine
Elder Mabel Horton
Elder Betty Ross
Toni Kipling
Morgan Fontaine
Andrew Woolford
Herbert Enns
Please connect with the Legacy Group if you would like to host a screening of this film.
Please connect with the Legacy Group if you are a former student of Assiniboia Residential School and you are interested in sharing your stories on video. The Legacy Group is building an archive of interviews with former students that can be shared through future educational and outreach projects.