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Birthright

by Constance Lindsay Skinner, adapt. Joan Bryans

In the British Columbia frontier in 1905, missionary Robert Maclean has an ever-increasing foothold of power and influence. Into the swirling melee of shifting allegiances steps Precious Conroy, Maclean’s adopted daughter. She is unaware that she was sent away for schooling to avoid the shame and discrimination which would occur should the secret get out that she is part Native. The son of the local chief, himself a product of a mixed marriage, is in love with her but so too is the son of the house. What will happen when, as it must, the secret of her parentage gets out?

“What a fantastic find. Watching Birthright is like reading your great-grandmother’s private diaries. And like most intimate family records, the script presents a puzzle of conflicted sensibilities, all of which inform our own identity…. At its best, Birthright approaches the work of Henrik Ibsen, the father of naturalism… this work is part of our political and cultural birthright…”
—Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

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