tv Documentary RT August 12, 2022 3:30pm-4:01pm EDT
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easy orders given by human beings, except where such order is a conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to create truck rather than fear a take on various job with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with a robot. let's protect your own existence with what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even fantasia and let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time. time to sit down and talk.
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we always shy but 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 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. ah
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here that's with in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years old just too high for me through somebody to put me in the chair and my feed her up can even touch the floor. and they turn the power on like tricity. when the cat, 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 tortuga.
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ah ah ah ah, ah 30 below cold edmond, our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario 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 bill made them 2nd class citizens separate from white people. ah.
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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 to call and preserve 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, a 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. we're building
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a garden over the for pictures from the school. so this one is good business where the students girls been months. and these are the brothers are blade brothers. and hope 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 and their families and handed over to missionaries to be educated.
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they were sent to what were referred to as residential schools. oh, 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,
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they were issued with a uniform and a number is going to be the 1st is that's right. we have to be ready on the aim was 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, 2 of the were walk in loan. she was very quiet. and somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living anteaus.
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she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. and oh, you cried. lowered and slow, little while losing her mom. you're losing your losing your mom is come up on this account. 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 post or a dead sea, rather broadway can be using a child. and to them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement. and that's where you have time to grow. your group after we finish with that i had the year the whole look here
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and 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 just it was the worst part for me was always waiting every night 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. ah, well say downs is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens in,
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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. 0, you take the children and 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 the way from the bush milan and assimilate him indoctrinate them with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing people, the way of killing a culture,
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becomes the advocate an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves well the part we choose to look so common ground news organ trio roughly where the scores burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know. ah, take me to court. i don't know, only the fire knows for happy the missionaries are gone and now we can do our own find our own way. we don't need to poop.
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we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with the school is 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. with
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the last traces of the missionaries presence start to be found nearby in the reserve. okay. just follow me. i'll make a trailer 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. bad spirits here. father le warriors to run over here after bish somebody and run here and she kept solution and no weapon south. there's a whip to punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i did it again. now,
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i guess he was running all the time to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something i have been ah. abandoned since the late 19 ninety'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,
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and end up here at the end of the road. in thunder bay, a daily grind of alcohol and drugs and the life of misery that no one pays any attention to any more. in the frozen downtown streets you survive anyway, you can oh wow. a now 48. october is a survivor veritable miracle. like the rest of his family. he belongs to the last generation, taught by nuns and priests with for a long time drowned his pain in alcohol like almost half the men in his community.
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for you. this music has kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years now is 1112 years old. i'm going to worst code excursions. priest, i can say name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full. took advantage of a lot of world. moto was it was the winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line and we couldn't go back because we're early, we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time the police decided to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night
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a friend zip, my zip my my, my sleeping wag. grab the man this and go i can hear some of them are my relatives didn't make it jigging themselves to death over doses, suicide manual. 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,
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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 and yeah, coffee office, if i know his lucky star coffee, grady cocker i'm from the barrack 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
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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. came in late talking about it. but yet it made me, it made me the person i am today because i'm a beta i don't give up with anything
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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 of 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.
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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 raped by a priest when i was young on my reserve. i was raped by 2 police officers here in thunder
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bay 182-001-2014. i've been beaten by men by my partners. really bad, where my doctor, my doctor file is about that sick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my face. broken bones no more stolen sisters. with no more. it's stolen with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. i. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. with
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