EPISODE · Feb 4, 2025 · 21 MIN
Sugarcane
from The Ponca Poet's Podcast · host Cliff Taylor
Have you had a chance to see Julian Brave NoiseCat's documentary Sugarcane yet? It's about the Indian Boarding Schools and was recently nominated for an Academy Award. It's powerful, not easy to watch, but beautiful too. On this episode, I read a poem I wrote the day after I watched Sugarcane, titled 'The Undoing Shame Sonnet,' and then I wade into all of that difficult subject matter that is still tearing through many of our Native people's lives, including my own. Be strong, relatives, and reach out for help when you need to. None of us needs to be alone with happened to us. It's time to tell our stories, be there for each other, and create a way forward that's rooted in healing and hope. "Indigenous people are still dying from residential boarding schools. And still living, despite them." -Julian Brave NoiseCat
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Have you had a chance to see Julian Brave NoiseCat's documentary Sugarcane yet? It's about the Indian Boarding Schools and was recently nominated for an Academy Award. It's powerful, not easy to watch, but beautiful too. On this episode, I read a poem I wrote the day after I watched Sugarcane, titled 'The Undoing Shame Sonnet,' and then I wade into all of that difficult subject matter that is still tearing through many of our Native people's lives, including my own. Be strong, relatives, and reach out for help when you need to. None of us needs to be alone with happened to us. It's time to tell our stories, be there for each other, and create a way forward that's rooted in healing and hope. "Indigenous people are still dying from residential boarding schools. And still living, despite them." -Julian Brave NoiseCat
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