Bones of Crows

47min

Drama

Cree Matriarch Aline Spears survives Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. The story unfolds over one hundred years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.

Production Companies

Ayasew Ooskana Pictures

Eagle Vision

Episodes

Cast

To Be Starved

1. To Be Starved

44min

20th Sep 2023

Cree piano prodigy Aline Spears and her siblings are torn from their family and forced into residential school. Now a WWII code talker, Spears and her husband, confront the spectres of their pasts.

To Be Seperated

2. To Be Seperated

44min

27th Sep 2023

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.

To Be Denied

3. To Be Denied

50min

4th Oct 2023

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

To Let Go

4. To Let Go

44min

11th Oct 2023

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.

To Be Here

5. To Be Here

47min

18th Oct 2023

Taylor and Aline travel to the Vatican, where Aline confronts her past - and inspires a pivotal discovery. Jakes joins his family's work and a concert becomes an opportunity for reconnection and healing. Through art and music, the entire Spears family comes together.

First air date

20th Sep 2023

Last air date

18th Oct 2023

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks