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- Butterfly Monument documents the creation a public memorial dedicated to the late Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree education advocate from Attawapiskat First Nation, Moskekowok territory. Through personal stories shared by Shannen's immediate family we learn about who Shannen was and what motivated her passionate crusade for equitable access to education for Indigenous children and youth. The film also documents director Jules Koostachin's efforts to lead the community campaign that made this public monument to her young relation a reality. Shannen was a trailblazer with Canada's largest youth-led activist group when she sadly passed away at the young age of 15. Her legacy is kept active by Shannen's Dream, a national campaign for improved First Nation schooling. The Butterfly Monument, Canada's first public monument honouring a Cree youth is located on the traditional territories of Timiskaming First Nation, in the City of Temiskaming Shores, Ontario.
- A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there starts to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the tenement dwellers are stealing bonds from the bank. When they are about to be caught, they try to frame the girl and her boyfriend, and the bank employee attempts to force himself on the girl. All comes right in the end, and the banker decides to build new apartments for the tenement-dwellers instead of a factory.