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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 ...
Summary: This powerful video is based on the diary of a Native child who was put in foster care and was subsequently shuttled from family to family throughout his short life. Abuse and neglect by both his foster families and the child welfare system characterized much of his treatment and, eventually, Cardinal committed suicide. His death became the focus of a successful campaign to reform ...
A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. He had been taken from his home at the age of four because of family problems, and spent the rest of his seventeen short years moving in and out of twenty-eight foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta. A sensitive, articulate young man, Richard Cardinal left behind a diary upon which this film is ...
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child. 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.
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Film Description: "A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. He had been taken from his home at the age of four because of family problems, and spent the rest of his seventeen short years moving in and out of twenty-eight foster homes, group homes and shelters in 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 ...
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child is one of them. It starts with his words, words he wrote in his journals as he tried to make sense and meaning of being a foster child within the so called child protection agencies that have let so many of our children experience the most horrific lives. Alanis Obomsawin couldn’t look away ...
