Sugarcane Documentary: Why did the Williams Lake Band suppress crucial facts about Antoinette Archie?

More native lies, deception and grifting but this time on a global scale.

A scene from the documentary Sugarcane filmed when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller visited Williams Lake on March 30th, 2022 to announce $2.9 million dollars in funding for the investigation on the Sugarcane Reserve

Most Canadians have not yet heard of the Williams Lake Indian Band's pseudo-documentary Sugarcane. It has been heavily promoted at film festivals and limited screenings throughout Canada and the US since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 20 January 2024, but was only released for streaming in Canada on 26 December 2024.

The documentary purports to be a 'ground breaking investigation', and triumphantly proclaims in its closing scene that 'The ongoing investigation at St. Joseph's Mission has uncovered a pattern of infanticide', i.e. babies fathered by priests and tossed into the school's incinerator.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The documentary does not produce any verifiable evidence that infanticide ever occurred at St Joseph's Indian Residential School.

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