I am the Warrior: A Residential School Story
5.5
2021
0 hr 8 min
Fantasy
, Animation
, Drama
"I Am the Warrior: A Residential School Story" depicts the struggling relationships between a mother and daughter fox after the mother has suffered through residential school and has passed the trauma on to her daughter.
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