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We Were Children is a 2012 Canadian documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools, where they suffered years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult lives.
Oct 2, 2012 · We Were Children is the testimony of 2 survivors: Lyna Hart and Glen Anaquod. In 1958, Lyna was taken from her family to a school in central Manitoba, while Glen, who was orphaned, entered a school in Saskatchewan, part of 7 generations of children who were betrayed, broken and abandoned.
Mar 20, 2020 · Two attendees - Lyna and Glen - recount those horrific days, memories of which continue to haunt them in their later years. Watch 'We Were Children' a film which shows the story of two...
As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools. The trauma of this experience was made worse by years of untold physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult lives.
Two aboriginal Canadian children endure abuse at a boarding school.
- Drama
Oct 19, 2012 · Both heartbreak and healing emerge from We Were Children, a docudrama screening at the ImagineNATIVE film festival that tells the story of residential school survivors.
