If you haven't heard of the tragic story of Chanie Wenjack, a First-Nations child who died while trying get home from a residential school in Northern Ontario, please follow this link.

Gord Downie, of the Tragiclally Hip, and collaborators have put together a beautiful, haunting and poignant movie about his story. As much as it is a testament to the fate of one child, it is a call-to-attention and action to the lives of hundreds of thousands of First-Nations families across the country, who have suffered - and continue to suffer - from the multiple waves of trauma inflicted by the racist policies and practices of the dominant, colonialist culture.

As Jesse Wente of the CBC suggested, watch it, reflect on it, and urge at least two other people you know to do the same.