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Plot. Three intersecting stories are told centered on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and the adjacent town of Cloquet in the Arrowhead Region of northeastern Minnesota. The answers to the outstanding questions in these stories are all hidden in the secrets from a generation ago at the now abandoned Catholic boarding school on the reservation.
Older Than America: Directed by Georgina Lightning. With Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning. A Native American woman is haunted by visions that compel her to seek the truth about a residential school.
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Three intersecting stories are told centered on the Fond du Lac Reservation and the adjacent town of Cloquet in northeastern Minnesota. In story one, native Americans Rain O'Rourke and Johnny Goodfeather, a teacher and a police officer on the reservation respectively, have been living together for ten years, off the reservation despite Johnny's ...
Mar 7, 2008 · The film, "Older than America," is an uncompromising drama about Indian boarding schools. A movie shot around the Fond du Lac reservation in northern Minnesota will gets its first public...
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Dec 8, 2006 · "Older than America" is a Native American story, as told by a Native American company. One of the scenes shot this week took place at the Carlton County Historical Society, an old Carnegie...
- Bob Kelleher
Apr 4, 2008 · 'Older Than America' hits home for audience in Cloquet It touched Margaret Roth of Cloquet. Her grandparents had both attended boarding schools, and they constantly told her father what they had learned—he was worthless, he was nothing because of his American Indian heritage.
Apr 3, 2008 · A deeply engaged audience saw "Older than America" in an advance screening Thursday at Cloquet's Premiere Theatres, near where it was filmed on and near the Fond du Lac Reservation last...
