Opening People's Minds

Re: 'Mohawk Girls' Documentary

Recently I had the pleasure of partaking in a short film where native students were taken advantage of by clergy teachers. Native children in other films are seen as glue sniffers and their parents as permanent alcoholics. I learned that a number of films had already been made showing the downside of native societies in Quebec, not necessarily on the south shore. So much attention has been down on their going to drugs, never being able to make in the big world that most of us have developed misconceptions about natives being unable to compete with their white colleagues. Isn't it time to pull the plug on this perennial negativity?
Now advertising Mohawk plight is the first step, then concerned citizens should make an effort and bridge the ties between the reserve and the city. It's time to permanently remove the associaition we have of Kahanwake as just a place to pick up cheap smokes and where teenage girls do nothing more than get pregnant. More opportunities should be made available to Mohawk children so that the bubble isolating form the city in their view is removed.