2010 | Canada | Documentary

My Legacy (2010)

  • English - 3 mins
  • Director | Helen Haig-Brown
  • Writer | Helen Haig-Brown
  • Producer | Helen Haig-Brown

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Director Helen Haig-Brown wonders whether her inability to maintain relationships might be connected to the traumas her mother suffered – along with much of the Canadian First Nations population – in the residential school system. In My Legacy, she sets out to understand her mother’s experience, deepening and complicating their relationship, bearing witness to the hardships endured by the women in her family while celebrating their beauty and strength.

Intergenerational Trauma Residential Schools Mother-Daughter Relationship Indigenous Identity Healing Forgiveness
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