How Reservation Dogs’ brilliant use of ‘gibberish’ portrayed the horror of residential schools

December 5, 2023

When Cree-Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet found out she’d be directing an episode of Reservation Dogs that dealt with the trauma of residential schools — or boarding schools, as they’re known in the U.S. — her biggest concern was how to tackle it the right way. “It’s such an intense topic and one that I’ve dealt with in my previous work…