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is a price on each native person for $5.00 for a piece of scope of indian male. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve. not part of canada. never decided so i was in school years, physicians terrible people. ah,

it's impossible to forget what app is there. we always put tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a shaker to rock it here and it is a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we sank a grandfather for token after us and taken care of us as we travel

they tried to tell us that this was a 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. first too high for me, so somebody put me on the chair and my feet, they're up. i can't even touch the floor. and they turned power on like tricity.

when the cat, wendy electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't my go for you, you were tortured like ah, they made a book because they went to their land. so they broke their children. why did i go, did this or do anything i was just a child with

me. ah ah, ah ah. 30 below cold edmond, our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario or fort albany. canada has more than 2000 reserves like this one. ah,

they were set up in the late 19th century by the indian act. the law governing the indigenous population. this racist bill made them 2nd class citizens separate from white people. to day they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then they were savages. i am designated asked the indian oh lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada here and here the government wants to call and preserve for the i call it my grandfather's land. the indian act is still applicable to day it was introduced in an attempt to settle

and thus better control a nomadic people along with our territory and resources. the reserves were run by nuns and priests. their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them our building a karen over with her pictures from a school. so this one is good business her the students girls and months and it her the brothers blade brothers. and that prisoners are here. it's hard to resist at that time, very hard to resist. ah,

ah, in from the age of 4 or 5 children were torn from their families and handed over to missionaries to be educated. 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 brain 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. this is that's way we ought to be ready on the aim was to make them good little white children and good to the christians. i mean edmond and his cousin spent their childhood at saint dan'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 walking mom. she

was very quiet. and so somebody else took me by them. but by then i was overwhelmed with the the school. i didn't see my mom living until she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door and the you cried, you know her and slow. luke, while losing our mum. you're losing your losing, your mom is come up on for ears. 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. can be using

a child and to them from the dormitory and the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked a girl your group after message whether you're fema t that i had the year she whole look to provide you they were like oh butterfield i could never sleep because i always knew there was something there somebody, i could hear somebody moving her own or just it was the worst part for me was always waiting. i relate just like there was somebody there that's gonna grab you. that's no place to be for any so

ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation. well see, dance is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens in a little over a century. 150000 children attended these institutions. ah, 4000 of them lost their lives in the last residential school closed down in 1996. i think 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 lamps 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 that way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian mm . with ah ah

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fire took it by accident. we don't know take me to court. i don't know, only the fire knows for happy the missionaries are gone. 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. ah, the school was right here. figure 3 stories building is big enough for 200 students with, you know what we never gave missionaries. we never show them our tiers. 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, the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay, this 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. father law warriors to run over here after a dish. somebody and ran here and she kept solution in a weapon south. there's a whip there. punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i did it again. now because he was running all the time to to that cabin here. sir brittany or something happened? ah, feel abandoned since the late 1990 s. the huts are almost intact. 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 jail, got thank who with

cold drive everyone from the sidewalk, they are the only ones left street indians, the image of the dying people tempted by a better life. first nations, the youth flee the poverty of the reserves and end up here at the end of the road. in thunder bay, a daily grind of elk home and drugs, and a life of misery that no one pays any attention to any more. in the frozen downtown streets you survive anyway, you can a

now 48 october is 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 all these years. now is 1112 years old man. going to worse code excursions, priest vacancy named ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full of. took advantage of a lot of

a lot of us there was a winter boys walking on the ice, going to the trap line, who couldn't go back because we're early. we cross the lake going in the bush and night time. the police decide to come and sleep, say me and why my sleeping way towards the night and zip my that my my my sleeping way. grab the in, learn this and go, i can hear

some of them are my relatives didn't make it jerking themselves to death over doses through 3rd 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'd been to jail and all good drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife from being out my girlfriends and that's it's, it's hard for her. sorry. the scary thing to talk with in his plight, otto has been able to count on his and yeah, coffee it, i know his lucky star covering brady carter found them the best plan for 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 this when they build, i usually try and oh, my dishes before i go to sleep. yet all the time i know suffered a lot too. when the residential schools it is a memory she still finds hard to talk about i have when i had my grandson here, so i can say here what i have to say, sir natalie say, now it is mad. plainly

talking about it. but you know, i did make me it made me am the person i am today because i'm afraid 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 and spare them the fate that befalls most of the communities. youngsters. ah, unlike their loved ones,

they have not experienced residential schools yet all seem to carry the burden. 143 percent, the 1st nation youths between the ages of $12.24 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, [000:00:00;00]

a man. i am a product of the residential school. i was raped 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 partner's really bad where my doctor, my doctor file is about that thick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my

face. broken bones. no more stolen, sisters. no more storm sister. no lights don't live there with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years i. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history with with ah

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roughly all band on youtube with a hasn't been very good to indigenous women and girls who have been missing or found murdered because of structural racism, history. the corneal history, that canada has worked, indigenous people and communities. and it's a shameful history and a history that canada doesn't like to talk about not until just into those election in 2015 with a to booze of colonization finally shuddered. oh ah. and being elected prime minister, the young head of state give

a message to the 1st nations community working together timely the government of canada. sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them. so profoundly have to apologize into residential school victims. the prime minister tackled the scandal from us for many decades. indigenous women and girls across canada have disappeared, suffered violence or been killed. it is shameful. it is absolutely unacceptable and it must end