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of yes of book what our bothers that they say could speed up recovery and stop young people from turning to cry. i am a decrease al jazeera, my degree nigeria. now video shot by had drones is giving a birds eye view of the devastation caused by the volcano in the canary islands. this week, another vent cracked open, sending out more ash and lava. these are live pictures now coming from there. the airport remains shot due to the build up of ash and daybreak, and people have been warned that rain could soon cause mudslides. ah, a picture of the headlines here on al jazeera israel says it will bound the entry of all foreigners for 2 weeks after the emergence of a new covey. 19 variant. once approved, it will be the toughest travel ban announced anywhere in the world. since all micron was identified,
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israel so far confirmed only one case at the very end or we force it has more from west drusilla's will. it's the result of a late night emergency meeting of the corona virus cabinet, which took place late on saturday evening after a brief announcement from the prime minister natalie bennett, that israel needed to act very quickly in the midst of all this uncertainty and not risk the progress already gained against the current of iris pandemic. and so the measures announced are extremely stringent. all foreign travelers into his ro will no longer be allowed in that is quite soon after a foreign tourism was allowed again towards the beginning of november and on the crown has been detected in more parts of europe. the dutch government believes several cases are among dozens of travelers who have been isolated after arriving from south africa, which 1st identified the variant. many nations had imposed travel bombs on south africa and its neighboring country. meanwhile, to africa,
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as government is complaining about the way it's been treated since alerting the world about the very end, it says country shall be applauding. instead of punishing it. france says it's open to discussions about its overseas territory of guadalupe running more of its own affairs. there has been unrest on the caribbean island of a compulsory covered 19th, vaccinations, and other restrictions, australia's deploying more soldiers and police officers to the solomon islands in an effort to restore com. after several days of writing, at least 3 people have died. some estimate say more than 50 buildings in the capital, honey ira were burnt down and dozens of people have been placed under arrest. so those were the headlines and is continues here now to 0 after foot lives statement. thanks for watching bye for now. on counts in the course, count japan's new prime minister, tackle income inequality plus will the world trade organization health book
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countries to secure po with 19 vaccines will be speaking to the w t. o is new director general counting the cost on al jazeera a move one of one day, someone just came here to the house and just took it away. and you never saw your parents. and i never told you why. oh, she was only 9. and my grand daughter's will be here soon. so thinking back, lou toggles her mind that this happened and what had to go through
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a digital group of canada. cisco is 751 unmarked graves. and beside them, a former residential school indigenous leaders, according as a crime against humanity. a 2nd such discovery in less than a month. the indigenous people from canada. they always knew it was there. they said, you need to look to our neighbors to the south of us in the u. s. who things like that happened here. got a modern brush of the side. oh, fleet states barry, hopefully it's not brought out. they open that we've had those kinds of atrocity separate us here in the united states. i've talked to elders who tell me that all the children in the village had to leave. and there was an ear required in the village. there is no sound of the children.
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the headmaster wept my bear back with the rubber hose. i couldn't breathe, couldn't catch my breath. i passed out a little boy said they had to hold me up for one more whip. i stood it to be heard. this finance knew united history has to be told me or oh. ringback ringback ringback ringback a very capable student. ringback who speaks raise your mother's friendly manner?
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wondering parents, a little jimmy and blocking the rain. when we 1st heard about the children married in kamloops, canada, that brought back a flood of memories for myself and many and my generation of our own experiences in morning was just kind of writing under the surface of our consciousness. here's my dad, my mom and me when i was a baby. when my dad passed away, we became of interest to the bureau of indian affairs. ready and it wasn't very long before the social workers, and for my 1st my mom to make a decision, give your children up for adoption or send them to boarding school.
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she chose to send that to morning shop. with the idea that at least we will be together in the summer time when school was out on our way to the airport. our mother made a big apology saying that she, sorry, ran out to have you go to boarding school. this was in the fall of 1955. we were taken to the town of wrangell into this huge kind of government and closed on claim county rose out of the mountains and trees. as wrangell institute. we were not quite sure what was going to be and our future. oh ah ah ah
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ah, the government said that it was becoming too expensive to continue killing indians . but educate them, let's assimilate them. he was a rabbit assimilationist. so it was, let's kill the indian them man said the man the whole basis for his boys schools was to get them as far away from the culture as he could forced assimilation and force christianity the work ethic and a complete military style format. ah, no one had ever asked the federal government, my boys will say ran no one ever asked the churches, how many bodies will they ran? so i decided to dedicate as much time as i could to research how many boys schools,
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when the united states, just recently i've come up with 406 o at the school. the 1st place we went to in the moist arm was i a large, open area, a concrete floor. and there we were ordered to get completely undressed. many of us did not know each other. and here we are, were standing in this receiving room and some children who did not understand the commands to get undressed. ringback some matrons were frustrated enough, they ran over to that low guy and just literally car his shirt are off his body and partially pulled up his pants. busy curse the child
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was in tears was frightened. there was a lot of eerie silence among the other kids who were watching this the little things that we had brought with hesper were basically confiscated and we'd never seen them again. and we were ordered to get in line each kid was assigned a 2 digit number, and that 2 digit number was written with indelible ink on our clothing. i. here's one from 1960. my number was 68 at who is very d humanizing. and to the, to the extent that some matrons were found them only re referring to aspire number . we were hand the government issued clothing. and then we were marcia to our dorm rooms, which is basically
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a military style barracks. we got settled in for the night. that's sometimes hard to cry. it started off with little whim parish, a little supple. but it caught on all it took was for one little child start crying and then another one and then another. and then another to a point where the entire door room of little chiz were just wailing into the night . and we all cried ourselves to sleep. waking up the next day, our eyes are swollen, shut in, the process was repeated over and over and over until the middle of the school year . i don't think any child cried any more because no one's gonna come and get me or hold me. told them, but they're loved the buildings were
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cold, they were under heated. the kids were hungry and they were half worked to death. the discipline was, was horrific. a kids were killed. they got killed working in the barn. i work in the fields. they were overcrowded. so they died if t b missiles, they died of typhoid pneumonia and the flu had a reporter asks me, i say bother history. a boy's school was written on the books and i said, well, is never written in. it's not in any history books for more than a century, the interior department was responsible for operating the indian boarding schools
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across the united states and its territories. at no time in history, have the records or documentation of this policy been compiled or analyzed to determine the full scope of its reaches and effects. we must uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences of the schools. when they started reporting on the missing children in canada, it brought back memories of carlisle, pennsylvania in the school there. ah, this is my grandmother. my grandmother's e to sister was mary kenneth some time in the sixty's. grandma said to mom, sister mary went to school and she's buried there. when you hear words like that,
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you don't know to ask other questions because you're shocked by the words that you just heard. we all grew up with quicken me, mom. always wonder what that mean. so in the late sixty's she started doing some searching for what happened to mary. she had this photo captioned william, karen, oak and daughter take around 19 o 3 and we both discussed. could this be barry? it's hard to know. does she look like a 9 year old girl? chill click a little girl. but they took marian 30 others children from southeast alaska. and in 19 o 3 they went from a temperate rain forest where there's lots of trees to a country that's flat and has trees been on like home. so it had to have been so
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much they had to adjust to to huff lot ask a little children, hit to last as for adults, songs a days to figure what's going on. once they got to carla pennsylvania, it was an immediate transformation into becoming westernized out ingles to govern carlo indian students and our patrons. pupils are placed in families to learn english and the customs of civilized life outings are under the guise of teaching people how to do housework. how to learn how western culture
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works in the household. but it was kind of like free labor. here was the 1st evidence that mary had gone to an outing. mom was trying to find any information because she knew she died with carlyle stay of alaska department of health and welfare of 1967. 1985. it took a long time. this was over several years that she was writing back and forth trying to figure out who has what information. 1993. june 2008. 0, very cute. she finally found those 2 pieces of paper that said she had been there and she got sick and died. confined to bed in hospital for past 2 weeks. irregular temperature weekdays animation. my cousin said family medicine doctor. when he read that, he said she must have had t b just by that little bit of
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a description. when i 1st went to carlisle and went through all the names on the stones, i was overwhelmed with so many children. there was no. mary 14 graves had markers unknown. in this call cemetery. we figured she must be worthy unknowns. they moved to the cemetery to where it is to day. in the records were not good. they can't keep track of children. that's when i got my 1st anger about the people not knowing what we've gone through the
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door and board school time. they did start that cemetery over there. there's a lot of old graves there. lot of kids died from disease that was going to born school here, meningitis pneumonia, flu. this used to be dormitory at one time when it was more than school. little boy and a half years. my dad eugene senior. he went to school here as a more school student. he had bad experiences. it was catholic school in there were suppressed, he was suppressed in speaking his language. he said, dearest,
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i am said he was punished for being caught speaking language and they get disciplined. he was traumatized by that may impact on from born schools with language loss, even cultural loss. right. even here elders, one time kids at one to carlisle or one off to different born school. they come back in years like they were incense, they were changed like they didn't want to speak their language like they didn't want to do their cultural ways. i the overwhelming thing the whole matrons looked down as far as to make sure that no child spoke their language. they had a thing called the gauntlet and a child in your rack up some merits as sometimes those mirrors were for speaking
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your language. and during that, got many children who had these to merits were 1st to become completely undressed and walk and run naked down a line of children who were on both sides of them using their belts against their fellow student. and sometimes some kids use the, the buckle, and some of these kids hit pretty hard because they didn't, they would have to go to the got met. besides the physical punishment there was psychological abuse. then of course, sexual abuse. wrangle seemed to attract peter files and a lot of boys in the boys were sexually molested. you know, when i was about 10 years old, i had written home and i was writing about some of the abuses, ice,
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a saw and experienced. and my mom didn't do anything with when i wrote her about so i thought she didn't care. but when i learned when i was much older and she happened to remember was she said when i got your letter, there is large parts of the letter that was black, bel, i used to day recall that being redacted. so a lot of the things i talked about my mom could never have known abroad because i was just black bout this renews at wrangell. right. the i was 13 at the in the 10 years. and i was in warning for i knew everything about the world, but i didn't know who i was what
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happened in voiding schools as a cultural genocide and after finding my dad's record, i just broke down and just sobbed and sobbed to think of this 9 year old boy whipped away from everything he knew and he said it as a professor that i wanted to do a qualitative interview study of financial survivors. how they were themes that came out. number one of course was the loss of identity. loss of language, loss of culture, loss of ceremony as traditions self esteem. there was extreme loneliness. there was loss of their parents and the sense of abandonment. then there was abuse. there was corporal punishment forced to child labor. they were hungry, mel,
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nearest, and there was sexual and mental abuse. there was out on miss alt grief that intergenerational trauma has. some has been handed down to her to even those that didn't go to boarding school. ah ah ah, let's go through our exercise of introducing yourself at those say, nan nan and off monday. without in language, she won't have a culture. my dad and mother talked about how they were raised and award and school, especially language. they said we're gonna teach our children english. we're not
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going to speak our language to them because we don't want our kids to go through the same teen. we did this intergenerational trauma. oh, it does something to you appear. it seems like carries on into the next generation. i don't say are florence speakers are really low and not? i've been working in earnest, trying to find ways of trying to work ways to get this language out to the kids. and i don't know. ah no, but who taught me was my mother and my grandma, my dad's mother that she talked us in or apple on my dad wasn't there. what we're saying there are not saw and as, oh my people look at your flag,
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it has been raised. it is raised and fly in the wind. oh, this flag song. i used always sing that song when i was a little kid. oh and my mother was in the kitchen. she heard me. then she said, i'm gonna teach you the proper words. so she did a, i always kept that song in my head. she told me the meanest of the words well hey, near dawn there. why jane? that was a rap poll nation flag song. well hey, the up go to ne hall not sometimes i tell. okay. you guys are gonna grow up, are you going to start families to keep us language in this culture live as being wrapped long after me by he in
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a song obey him? prior to not forget, try to remember me. the sar language that keeps the rappel blood going, keeping the light at not at all with ah, i asked now what are we being shield from? what has been the problem? is it just curious on from generation to generation, from the traders that disruption in our language and our culture? i don't speak english because my parents both believed in. we would never progress the western culture unless we spoke english. mom i it's now for a family lies. so that's why she would go out and try to put the picture together
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to say, who are we? why are we scattered? why do i not know this part of my family were helping her? ah ah. so paul william and martha never returned and that's a big hole in your family. but that was the goal of the school and the churches was to cut family ties and that's at mom. worked hard to have was the close knit family i think for mom, the beginning of our, the healing of our family was to find out where our relatives are, who's very important to her.
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it's important for me to finish mom's journey. to have mary so far away is saying no, we need to bring the family home. mom was trying to find all the gods, put it all together, make the story complete is to bring her home. this is part of our hurt that we need to figure how to start healing that hurt
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