I just watched THROUGH THESE EYES on TVO. I caught it halfway through a while ago and remember thinking how I really wanted to see the whole thing but never looked into it.
It's about a course taught to elementary school children in the US in the 60s and 70s. Children saw footage of an Inuit tribe in Canada and learned how the tribe lived. They then discussed the rituals and lifestyle of the tribe in comparison to their own lives. The children's minds were stimulated into questioning the way they and their associate contemporaries lived their lives. Then American beaurocrats and hick assholes ruined the whole fucking program and went up to Pelly Bay and Christianized the Inuits and gave them snowmobiles and ruined their lives too.
I mean, I don't want to live in an igloo, but give kids and Inuits some credit.
For more on assholes ruining beauty and art, check out the stories of ANDRES SERRANO (who was persecuted by a Republican for taking a photograph of Christ on a cross in a vat of his own urine, which is an incredibly beautiful and spiritual photograph) and CHRIS OFILI (whom Rudy Giuliani persecuted because he used balls of elephant dung to prop his paintings up in galleries, and one of his paintings was of the Virgin Mary).
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