Name: Bones of Crows
Released: 2023-09-20T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Joshua Odjick, Grace Dove, Phillip Lewitski

TV Show · Drama

Cree code talker Aline Spears survives her traumatic past in Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight against systemic starvation, racism and sexual abuse.

2023 · 43m

Starring Joshua Odjick, Grace Dove, Phillip Lewitski

Director Marie Clements

EPISODE 1

To Be Starved

Cree piano prodigy Aline Spears and her siblings are taken from their family home as children and forced into residential school; Spears, now a World War II code talker, and her husband, Adam Wallach, confront the spectres of their pasts.

43m
EPISODE 2

To Be Separated

Aline reconnects with her sister, Perseverance, which resurfaces memories of a daring attempt to escape residential school and its irrevocable consequences on all four Spears siblings.

42m
EPISODE 3

To Be Denied

Aline struggles to support her family; Adam's veteran pension gets denied and he is cast adrift; when their children, Jake and Taylor, take action against a local priest, Aline experiences a crisis of faith.

50m
EPISODE 4

To Let Go

Advancing her work on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs, Taylor returns to her childhood home; a tense Thanksgiving dinner between the family spurs Jake to reach out to his father's family.

44m
EPISODE 5

To Be Here

Taylor and Aline travel to the Vatican, where confronting the past sparks a pivotal discovery; Jake joins his family's work and a concert becomes an opportunity for reconnection and healing.

47m