We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice (2016)
The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which charged that the federal government's woefully inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children constituted a discriminatory practice.
- Date of release
- 2016-09-01
- Runtime
- 2h 43m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Alanis Obomsawin
Interesting facts
We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice is a 2016 Canadian documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin about the First Nations activist Cindy Blackstock and her court case against the federal government of Canada for underfunding social services to children living on First Nations reserves.
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