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Students at Sherman Indian High School document their experience living and going to school on the Sherman boarding school campus in Riverside. They speak to the benefits of meeting youth from other Native American Nations and learning about their own culture in high school. On the flip side they reflect on the personal difficulties of being far away from home for most of the year and strategies for coping.
"Looking back now, I am so glad I was involved with this project. I learned more than I ever thought I would about Native American issues and culture, filmmaking and editing, teaching and working in a classroom setting, and how to work with youth. The skills and experience I have gained as a result of this project will stay with me in the future. I think this project gave me an interesting perspective on filmmaking in general. In the past, all of the filmmaking I’ve done has been individual and narrative but this collective and documentary style of filmmaking was drastically and excitingly different."
- Hannah Adelstein