TIFF20 REVIEW: Inconvenient Indian [2020]

Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. As author Thomas King states near the end of Michelle Latimer‘s feature-length documentary inspired by his novel of the same name, Inconvenient Indian: “The problem has never been ignorance, but arrogance.” White, Christian colonialists can only say that their ancestors didn’t know any better so often before the words prove meaningless. Whether of not their actions towards the indigenous populations of North America were malicious in intent becomes inconsequential once the case for the pain and suffering wrought is made.…

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