Internalized Racism In The Film 'Places Not Our Own'
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Throughout the centuries the treatment of Métis people has been poor at best. Métis people have struggled with racism, loss of lands and loss of identity. Internalized racism due to being sent to schools where they were taught their people and their cultural heritage was wrong and something to be ashamed of. The purpose of this paper is to show how the Métis people in the film “Places Not Our Own” were treated within the white community and will also touch on how racism affected the Métis in their everyday lives. This paper will also show the internalized racism that greatly affects the path of the Lesbronce family. The film “Places Not Our Own” is set in Manitoba in 1929 it follows A Métis family through the Canadian west as they look to settle in a new town and a new home. The film starts with flora a young Métis girl who sees the world as it is and tries to navigate through it as her father has taught her to, while keeping in mind the lessons of her mother.…show more content… Rose (floras mother) believes the world is fair and will be just, if you behave according to societies standards. In the opening of the film flora says “my mother, she thinks were in a storybook with a happy ending, it’s not like that” throughout this film this statement rings true many times as the Lesbronce children are treated differently and as the film goes on it shows over and over again that behaving the way people want you to will not change their opinion of you if you are