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the price each native person a $5.00 for a piece of scalp for indian male $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve not part of canada. the never be part of

the was in school years technicians and terrible people. ah. it's impossible to forget what app ah we always shy but tobacco?

we call dish. wonder rock and it's a very sacred rock here, and it's a big, big rock and we call it a grandfather rock. we thank the grandfather for looking after us and taken care of us as we travel they tried to tell us that this was savage. this was a pagan way of doing things here that's with

the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years old. just too high for me. so somebody to put me in the chair and my feet are up, can even touch the floor and they turn the power on electricity, then you can't. when the electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go through you. you were tortured like that. ah, ah, they make a cell phone because they want an airline. will they broke their children? what did i go?

did this or do anything? i was just the child. ah. 5 with 30 below cold

edmond. our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario in fort albany. canada has more than 2000 reserves like this one they were set up in the late 19th century by the indian act. the law governing the indigenous population this racist build, made them 2nd class citizens separate from white people. ah, today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then they were savages. i am designated asked indian oh lives inside i reserve to separate the we are

hidden. people of canada here and here the government wants the color reserve for the i call it my grandfather's land. the indian act is still applicable today. it was introduced in an attempt to settle and thus better control and nomadic people, along with their territory and resources. the reserves were run by nuns and priests, and their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them while we're building a garden the for pictures from the school. so this one is good. this is where the students girls been months. and these are the brothers.

are blake brothers, and hope that prisoners are here. it's hard to resist. at that time, very hard to resist. ah, ah, when from the age of 4 or 5 children were torn from their families and handed over to missionaries to be educated. ah, they were sent to what were referred to as residential schools. ah, the system was mandatory under the indian any families refusing to release their children or persecuted oh and denied the meager state allowance

because i had long hair and i put it in rate. so somebody comes behind me, cuts my brains off my hair falls over, it looks like this. ah . as soon as the children or anything that identified them as indian was eliminated, their clothes were burned. they were forbidden to speak their own language. ah, they were issued with a uniform and a number is going to be the 1st is that's right. we have to be ready for the aimless to make them good little white children. and good little christians. i mean

edmond and his cousin spent their childhood at saint em's the school on their reserve. our building they didn't leave until they were 15. i remember my 1st day. i remember looking at my mom to other were walk in love. she was very quiet. and if somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom leaving unto us . she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. and the you cried, you all are in slow, little while losing your mom. you're losing your losing your mom

is come up on the car for 8 years. the 2 cousins suffered cruelty and ill treatment. it was an experience that marked them for life. even though the escape, the very worst of the abuse the rapes cost o a dead sea brother broadway. and be using a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor. brought him down to the basement. and that's where you have time to go. your bathroom usage with put down i had the year the whole to they were like the butterfield i could never sleep because i always knew there was something there somebody, i could hear somebody moving around or was it?

it was the worst part for me was always waiting. i really just like there was somebody there that's gonna grab you. that's no place to be for any child. ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation. ah, well saint dan's is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens in, in a little over a century, 150000 children attended these institutions. ah, 4000 of them lost their lives. the last residential school closed down in 1996. we take the children when you eliminate all

their knowledge of their history, their culture, then you're basically killing the people that grew up on these lands that knew the land that were connected to the lab. and that's what these policies were. to take the indian out of the bush to take the indian away from the bush, milan and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing people, but way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian. ah

ah. so i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down fire took it by accident. we don't take me to court. i don't know, only the fire knows are happy, the missionaries are gone and now we can do our own. find our own way.

we don't need to poop. we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with a school. it's right here. bigger 3 stories building is again a for a 200 students with you know what we never gave the missionaries. we never show them our tears. we never cried. he can be slapped around like this, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, right, right on your head and face, slap, slap, slap, slap, slap, and kneel on the floor and eat your vomit electrocution. but i'm still here. i'm still standing up, but they're gone. ah,

ah, the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay, just follow me. i'll make a trail here. it's an infamous spot. a place nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts were the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. pat. spirits here. rather la, used to run over here after your bish somebody and ran here and she kept solution in a weapon south. there's a whip. punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i did it again. now,

i guess he was running all the time to to the cabin here. sir brittany or something happened? ah, abandoned since the late 1996, the huts are almost intact. blue. time has stood still ah, the ghosts are all that remains of the trauma that haunts edmond and the 1st nations peoples every single day. ah, that's how i grew up in it is really hard to to get over that. how do you get over that? when they wake up in fail,

thank who in cold drives everyone from the sidewalk. they are the only ones left st. indians, the image of the dying people tempted by a better life. first nations, a youth flee the poverty of the reserves and end up here at the end of the road. in

thunder bay, a daily grind of alcohol and drugs that the life of misery that no one pays any attention to any more in the frozen down sounds st. you survive anyway, you can. a now 48, a survivor, a veritable miracle, like the rest of his family. he belongs to the last generation, taught by nuns and priests. for a long time, drowned his pain in alcohol, like almost half the men in his community.

for you. this music is kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years now is 1112 years old man going to voice code excursions, priest bacon, c. name ralph roy. you know, you know, are all for took advantage of a lot of a lot of lot of us there was a winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line. and we couldn't go back because we're already we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time, the police decided to come and sleep said me and why my sleeping way

towards the night air and zip my unzip, my my, my sleep in wage. grab the gym. man, there's a guy that i can he some of them are my relatives and didn't make it jigging themselves to death over doses. suicide, man, you know and i've done that before. i put a gun there before. stick a needle in my arm to hoping to overdose. and i've been to jail in all good drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife,

being out my girlfriends. and as with that it's, it's hard for her 3rd, the scary thing to talk with. in his plight, otto has been able to count on his hand. yeah, coffee. i think i know his lucky star coffee, grady cocker. i'm from the baron plan. you said it was my grandmother, she always said to me, i never go to bed with dirty dishes on the table because little people walk around at night, spit on things as to why people get sick. she says, that's what i don't. i usually try and do my dishes before i go to sleep. all the time. i know suffered

a lot too. when the residential schools it is a memory she still finds hard to talk about. well, i have when i had my grandson here, so i can say he's 20 here. what i had to say. so natalie say now it is mad. coming in late talking about it. but yeah, what it made me, it made me the person i am today because i'm a beta i don't give up with anything

i know has always wanted to break the vicious circle of trauma. she remained silent on the subject to protect her grandchildren. bear them the fate to befalls most of the communities youngsters. ah, unlike their loved ones, they have not experienced residential schools. ah, yet all seem to carry the burden. and 43 percent. the 1st nation youths between the ages of 12 and 24 have addiction issues. women are the biggest victims. in canada, indigenous women are 7 times more likely to die or to be killed than white women.

the victims of the violence inflicted by men, whether white or indigenous, broken by the inherited trauma of colonization, we are targeted as easy prey who this time aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study. oh i i am a product of the residential school. i was raised by a priest when i was young on my reserve. i was raped by 2 police officers here in

thunder bay, one of 20012014. i've been beaten by men by my partners. really bad where my doctor, my doctor file is but that sick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my face. broken bones. no more stolen sister is a with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years, a phenomenon rooted in the country's history ah,

in ah, yes, absolutely. well, with the free heater when enough to shut down can we generally not sure somebody who can wash

some stuff with any more money. so my, you're what's up with, to deal with with a minute to look it up here at the office with they don't finish with

a a lines are right now. here. we're not into national ammonia spreads over the city of don, yet sculpture and attacked by ukrainian troops on our local brewery. as we understand, leaving at least one dead and 2 injured parties, crew witnesses the aftermath of the shell, who were the 1st to arrive at the site and got into a puddle of ammonia and almost suffocated. the ammonia tank was damaged, which could threaten an environmental disaster. concerns mount is the u. s. approved yet another package of military aid to ukraine made revelations washington .