The Spirit Has No Colour: Film Screening Q & A

• Main Authors: Lavallee, Rick, Adams, Jerry, Edelson, Nathan
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Kendall; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/20037

The Spirit Has No Colour is a film produced by Norma-Jean McLaren and Nicholas Kendall. The film was initiated as a project by Norma-Jean to create a training film for B.C.’s municipal police recruits on the relationship between police and Aboriginal peoples. A training film for B.C.'s municipal police recruits on: the history of Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples), particularly in B.C.; the role of police in the enforcement of laws of Canada that today are deemed to have been damaging to the Aboriginal peoples; the experience of the Aboriginal peoples showing what police will see on the streets and in the communities today, both the powerfully positive and the profoundly negative; the consequence of generations of children being taken from families and entered into the residential schools of this country; and finally, connecting issues of drug and alcohol abuse, family disintegration and loss of identity to the sexual, psychological, physical and other abuses common in the schools.