By Sam Laskaris Writer The advocacy work of a Six Nations member is featured in one of the films at this year\u2019s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. The film titled Red Girl Rising tells the story that Six Nations\u2019 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. \u201cWe felt compelled to do something, to take action,\u201d Crone said in Red Girl Rising. \u201cSo, we purchased orange ribbons and we decided to write the names of children… <\/p>\n
By Sam Laskaris Writer The advocacy work of a Six Nations member is featured in one of the films at this year\u2019s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. The film titled Red Girl Rising tells the story that Six Nations\u2019 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. \u201cWe felt compelled to do something, to take action,\u201d Crone said in Red Girl Rising. \u201cSo, we purchased orange ribbons and we decided to write the names of children... <\/p>\n