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A story of healing intergenerational wounds and the fight to undo the horrors of the past, Drew Nicholas’ film Blood Memory refuses to shy away from the truth of history. America’s Indian Adoption Era may not be widely discussed in present-day society, but its ramifications are clear. During the era, Native children were stolen from their families and forced to assimilate, the process itself designed to wipe out generations of culture, language and communal connections. As a member of the stolen generation, Sandy White Hawk spent half of her adult life reclaiming her Sicangu Lakota heritage. Today, Sandy is helping heal the still very much present wounds of her community. Meanwhile, there’s Mark Fiddler, a Twin Cities-based adoption attorney and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, who is working to dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act - a law passed in 1978 to halt the removals of Sandy’s generation and keep Indian children connected to family and culture.
Director Biography
Filmmaker Drew Nicholas co-founded In Medias Res, a Pittsburgh-based film collective which produced the micro-budget feature film I’m A Stranger Here Myself. In addition to independent filmmaking Drew also works as a Location Scout/Manager on industry productions including the Netflix Original Series Mindhunter and Annapurna’s Foxcatcher. Blood Memory is Drew’s feature film directorial debut.
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