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Uploaded by on Nov 29, 2010

Produced by Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara Counties, Inc.
Funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture. Western New York Native American communities are presently attempting to heal the wounds and break the cycle inter-generational trauma resulting from the boarding school experience. Unseen Tears documents testimonies of boarding school survivors, their families, and social service providers.

Unseen Tears won best documentary at the SUNYWide Film Festival 2010 and was an official selection of the Lights Cameras Help film festival

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  • DVD's of Unseen Tears are available through NACS

    nacswny.org

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  • wtf is this nonsense

  • Taken from their lives of savagery? Let's re-define savage.

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