By Sam Laskaris Writer The advocacy work of a Six Nations member is featured in one of the films at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. The film titled Red Girl Rising tells the story that Six Nations’ Joyce Jonathan Crone is doing in Huntsville, the Muskoka town she has been living in for the past two decades. Crone is the president and founder of Hope Arises Project Inc., a charitable organization she helped launch after news of the remains of 215 children were discovered at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. in 2021. “We felt compelled to do something, to take action,” Crone said in Red Girl Rising. “So, we purchased orange ribbons and we decided to write the names of children…
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