Citation :
« With its retrospective narrative structure, compelling imagery, and persistent questioning of the treatment that Richard received the film [Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child] reveals the systemic inadequacy and racism of child welfare policies. »
-- Zuzana Pick

Source :
PICK, Zuzana. « Storytelling and Resistance: The Documentary Practice of Alanis Obomsawin » , dans Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, sous la direction de Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow et Janine Marchessault, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999. [en anglais] (p. 87)