Please save the date to join us in the sanctuary to view Sugarcane, the poignant documentary describing a family's experience with a Native Boarding School. 

Winner, Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.  

Dr. King 1963

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race.  Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy.  We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.  Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful  episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.”

Please join UU's and others around Philly in observance of Martin Luther King Day  for this documentary of a groundbreaking investigation into an Indian residential school. This urgent and timely film brings the hidden story of cultural genocide to light while celebrating the resilience of Native people as they work to overcome cycles of intergenerational trauma.