'Dawnland'

Join us for this Indie Lens Pop-Up community film event and a short discussion afterward. Brought to you by Indie Lens Pop-Up, ITVS, Rocky Mountain PBS and Independent Film Society of Colorado.

Our special guest speaker is Jeff Lujan. He is a clinical social worker who provides workshops on compassionate approaches to working with traumatized youth with a focus on those organizations providing care to First Nations youth in Canada. Join us for a discussion after the film!

Dawnland (2018)
Native American children are more than twice as likely as non-Native children to be taken from their families and put into foster care. In Maine, a group of Native and non-Native leaders came together to acknowledge and address the abuses suffered by Native children in the hands of the child welfare system. Dawnland is the story of the historic Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and illuminates the ongoing crisis of indigenous child removal.