Parents' Guide to Yintah

Parents need to know that the documentary Yintah contains significant scenes and discussion of violence, as well as positive female role models showing courage and perseverance in defending native lands against corporate encroachment. The film has repeated use of "f--k" (and "s--t"). Clashes between protestors and police get violent, and people draw guns, fight, and destroy property. There's discussion of past mistreatment of First Nations peoples, from forcible removal from land and families to internments in camps and residential schools (including mention of the "Sixties Scoop" of children away from their homes, and the recent discovery of unmarked graves found at these schools). A person calls the founding fathers of their nation "thieves and murderers out to annihilate" native peoples, a history that has led to their own self-annihilation through massive numbers of suicides and disappearances. Red dresses hang in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and there's mention of "man camps" set up by workers that ultimately lead to violence, especially against women. Hunting scenes include pulling animals out of traps, and one scene where an animal is killed and skinned alive while kids drink blood from its carcass in a traditional ritual. A teen mentions getting into alcohol and drugs. A woman smokes a cigarette.

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