‘Dear Georgina’ tells one of many stories about injustice to Indigenous children
The short film about one woman s childhood in northern Maine shines a light on widespread abuse with lasting effects.
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Georgina Sappier-Richardson, taken from her home at age 2 and raised in a series of foster homes in northern Maine, is the subject of a new documentary, “Dear Georgina.”
Photo by Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), courtesy of the Upstander Project
As a young girl growing up in foster homes in northern Maine, Georgina Sappier-Richardson often went hungry for lack of food, but picked potatoes before going to school – and then was forced to turn her paychecks over to her foster parents.