Film Short Abstract:

The policy of assimilation or de-indigenising communities by placing their children in residential/boarding schools has been increasingly disproved and abandoned, most publicly throughout North America, Australia and Canada since the 1980s.

Abstract:

The film explores the same policy in Odisha, India. This history and its dangers are little known, with relatively little awareness of how they are being replicated among many of India’s Adivasi/Indigenous communities. Extraction education has evolved more slowly in India but has now reached a larger scale than in any other country. Schools like KISS in Odisha, India not only receive large amounts of funds from companies which wrest control over tribal lands, but have emerged as nodal agencies for extractive corporations and Hindu nationalist organisations to socially engineer and organise indigenous identities to suit and justify India's fastest growing 'development story' and not a means for achieving social justice for marginalised communities.