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Robin Charboneau is a young divorced single mother of two, an Oglala Sioux woman living on the Sprit Lake Reservation in North Dakota.\u00a0 We first meet her as she walks home in subzero weather after twenty days in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse and its causes \u2013 extreme sexual abuse form a young age. Once home she invites a tribe elder to come and bless the house and purify it. Her next task is to regain custody of her two children, Darian, 12, and Anthony, aged 9.<\/p>\n
Robin\u2019s father was not involved in her life, instead there was a long line of her mother\u2019s boyfriends. At about age 3, after the first assault, she was put in foster care and then adopted. The abuse did not stop.<\/p>\n
As Robin tried to unify her family after rehab, she applies to college and establishes a home for herself and her children and gets a part time job.\u00a0 But Robin is beset by financial problems and a legal struggle with not only Tribal Affairs and custody issues but with her daughter\u2019s revelation that her father had sexually abused her as he had another young relative. The FBI becomes involved as well. Robin realizes she must work to protect her daughter at all cost and all the while she attends AA meetings and struggles to stay away from alcohol. She does.<\/p>\n
\u201cKind Hearted Woman\u201d may seem like a Lifetime drama but it is a deliberately told story of a woman\u2019s journey from brokenness to becoming a whole person, to becoming all she can be and she is not finished yet. Her goal in attending college is to become a social worker, to become an advocate for abuse victims on the reservation because no one there wants to talk about the plague of childhood sexual abuse as well as other forms of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n
Throughout this quietly intimate film I was impressed by the stark simplicity of Robin\u2019s emotional narrative, her way of consoling, cajoling and teaching her children, and her drive to make positive choices for herself, her children, and in a new relationship with a man, Darren, who comes into her life. When moments are especially difficult, she utters short prayers and reminds her children that God does love them.<\/p>\n
I have to admire the filmmaker, too, for his perseverance in following Robin and her family and for the family\u2019s willingness to participate. It was a very brave thing to do, to allow a camera crew into their lives at a most vulnerable time. I wondered if it was not too intrusive, but then I thought of the courage this might give others to do something to stop sexual and domestic abuse by education and prevention.<\/p>\n
I watched \u201cKind Hearted Woman\u201d during Holy Week and it seems to me that it is the perfect film to tell the Easter story today because it is about suffering, spiritual death, and resurrection. At five hours in length, this documentary film by David Sutherland (The Farmer\u2019s Wife<\/em>, Country Boys<\/em>), matched the pace and voice of the Reservation, reminding me of the 1998 film \u201cSmoke Signals\u201d based on the book \u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven\u201d by Sherman Alexie.\u00a0 Sutherland, too, relies on the Reservation\u2019s radio for weather reports as a kind of Greek chorus, but also for glimpses of God and grace transformed by a mother\u2019s love.<\/p>\nRobin Charboneau is a woman on a hard, long journey of hope for herself and others. Today she travels to tell her story, to teach parents and teachers and other professionals about protecting children and having the courage to teach children about boundaries and safety. She is also back on Spirit Lake Reservation, working with her people to make a difference, to give them a voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cKind Hearted Woman\u201d is an Easter woman, rising to become all she can be for love of her family and her people.<\/p>\n
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