In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American children forcibly held in church- and state-run Indian Boarding Schools — ranging from the Taylor Sheridan-produced “1923” to the Oscar-nominated “Sugarcane” — for such historical overviews to comprise a subgenre. Such eye-opening depictions of 19th and 20th-century atrocities, much like the contemporary accounts on the issue of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women, are not merely instructive, but necessary. Trouble is, that wealth of resources means an exceptional documentary like “Remaining Native” runs the risk of being passed over by viewers who assume there’s nothing more to be said on the
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