Critically reflect on Caleb G Abram's Presentation

The Canary Effect Reflection
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The Canary Effect Reflection
The canary effect film is a film which is in a documentary form that is majorly based on the way the indigenous people of the united states are living in a life that is very abusive and very terrifying. It looks into the effects the residents of the united states and the policies that have been put place have on the American indigenous people. It gives into details the united states government genocidal practices on the Indian country and their effects to the present day. In this paper I am going to reflect on the film using the Towards the ‘tangible unknown’: Decolonization and the Indigenous future a paper written by Aman Sium, Chandni Desai and Eric Ritskes.
To begin with, I will relate decolonisation as written in the paper with the film. Decolonisation involves when those that see themselves as superior and hence dominating the others remove their heavy hand upon those that they are colonising giving them their rights and freedom gradually (“Sium, A., Desai, C., & Ritskes, E.”, 2012). In the paper, they explain that there cannot be decolonisation work without the framework that gives the indigenous life the privileges that they require. Though in the film it shows how the decolonisation has not taken place because the indigenous life are not given the privileges that they deserve. The Indians are portrayed to be living in the reservations where the facilities are very poor. They access water that is very dirty that is brown, there is a lot of depression, most of the people are alcohol dependent, and the suicide trend is very high. For example, it shows that many school going kids attem...