‘Coming home’ to Aboriginal roots (fwd link)

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‘Coming home’ to Aboriginal roots

Written by By Lisa Charleyboy, Contributor
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Canada

Tuesday afternoon at a York University theatre – just how busy could it be? The
Price Family Cinema was more than 50 percent full on March 17 for the Canadian
premiere of Pelq’ilc (Coming Home). Hosted by the York Centre for Education and
Community, the high turnout  was perhaps due, in part, to the film’s timely
topic of Indian residential schools. Pelq’ilc (Coming Home), a collaboration
between York professor Celia Haig-Brown and her niece Helen Haig-Brown, stemmed
from Celia’s research about the students of the Kamloops Indian Residential
School. The film explores how the first and second generations of students who
attended this school are regenerating their culture and language. Helen is an
award-winning director from Tsilhqot’in Nation, which is located near Williams
Lake, B.C. Although the film covered the Secwepemc peoples, the subject was
close to home for Helen as Kamloops, B.C. is only 300 kilometres south of her
home territory.

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