Leonardo DiCaprio Is Backing New Native American Documentary ‘Nine Little Indians’

Leonardo DiCapriois gettingback into the business of documentaries. Today, Deadline has revealed that the Academy Award-winning actor and his production company, Appian Way, have joined ranks with filmmaker Shannon Kring for her project, Nine Little Indians. The investigative production, which has been in the works for nearly a decade, uncovers the harrowing tale of horrifying abuses that took place at a U.S. boarding school for Native American children. At the center of the story are the nine Charbonneau sisters and several of their schoolmates, all of whom endured inhumane circumstances at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota.