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Please join us at the Buttonwoods Museum on October 10, 2024 for a viewing of the film Dawnland.There will be two showings on October 10th: at 11 am and again at 7 pm.
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 and 2021, reaching more than two million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults.
"Dawnland is a film that everyone should see. Removal of Native children isn’t just something that happened far away and long ago, but to Wabanaki communities in Maine in the late 20th century. Watch and be outraged, heartbroken, and hopeful as the Wabanaki labor to protect and heal their most precious and vulnerable members, and some of their non-Native neighbors struggle with the challenge of moving from the role of occupiers to neighbors." — Cedric Woods, Ph.D., (Lumbee) Director of the Institute for New England Native Studies at UMass-Boston
This programing is made possible by support of Cummings Foundation grant and the Griffin-White Foundation grant.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
240 Water St, Haverhill, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01830
