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ah there 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 8 years. physicians, terrible people. it's impossible to forget what out there.

ah we always put tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a shaker rock. it 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 in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years old 1st too high for me, so somebody to put me on the chair and my feet, they're up. i can't even touch the floor. and they turn the power on electricity. then the cat, when the electricity goes, you can like goal. cuz the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go to you. you were tortuga. ah,

they make it because they want to the airline. will they broke their children? why did i go did this or do you do anything? i was just the child. ah for ah ah ah ah,

ah 30 below cold. ah, edmond, our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario, hulu, 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 citizens separate from white people. ah. today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then,

they were savages. i am designated as indian all 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 to day. 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 our building. hey, garden, over with her pictures from

a school. so this one is good business her the students, girls and months. and these are the brothers are 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 great. 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 is going to be super easy. that's way 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 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 walk in love. she was very quiet. and a, somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living 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 know, we're in slow little while losing our mum, you're losing your losing. your mom is come up on this account. no for ears. the 2 cousins suffered cruelty and ill treatment. it was an experience that mark them for life, even though the escape, the very worst of the abuse the rapes post o, a dead sea brother broadway can be using a child and to them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor brought them down to the basement and that's where you talk to grow your group after research where they only got to put down i had the u. t whole look to provide you they were like, oh,

but if i 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 every night. this 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 dance 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. 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, the think the indian away from the bush milan and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people the way of killing a culture, a nation killed in. mm

hm. so what he got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offensive, 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 lou in louisa, come to russian state total narrative. i've stayed as i'm phoning most landscape div, asking him then i can also send up for a group in the 55 when. okay, so mine is group. i was speaking with ben in the european union,

the kremlin. yup. machine. the state on russia for date and c r t spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube and pinterest and with me, ah, oregon trailer roughly where the school with burned down fire took it by accident. we don't know. i take me to court. i don't know warner,

the fire knows perhaps 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 is right here. figure 3 stories building is big enough for a 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 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 with the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. bad spirits here. father law used to run over here after your bish somebody and run here and she kept solution and no 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, 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 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 with dish with ah mum, 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, 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 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, i was raised, you know, 48 october is a survivor, a veritable miracle. like the rest of his family people. most of 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. for youth, this music is kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years now is 11. 12 years old. i'm going to worst code excursions, priest like and c name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full of took advantage of a lot of laura. laura was there it 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 priest decided to come and sleep beside me and why my sleeping way towards the night he went zip my vip my my, my sleeping bag and grab the man. there's a guy that i can he some of them are my relatives and didn't make it drinking 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. it, i've been to jail, you know, got drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife being of my girlfriends. and as with that it's, it's hard for her. so the scary thing to talk. what in his plight, otto has been able to count on his and yeah, coffee market. i know his lucky star coffee creek hacker i'm from the bare 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,

and that's where they 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 have to say certain that we say now it is mad. running late talking about it. but yeah, i did make me. it made me 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 grandchildren and spare them the fate that 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 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 partners. 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 stores. no more stone with stolen sisters more than 4000 of them in 30 years. ah, it's

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go out hours nice. oh boy festival. to go on what the on this for? she my and new other i'm all i can send more. oh said mom. good. so you don't the you, you will not put them out that they give us a very shabby canada. hasn't been very good to indigenous women and girls who have been missing or found murdered because of structural racism and history. the quality of history that canada hardwood indigenous people, communities. and it's a shameful history and a history that calendar doesn't like to talk about not until just introduce election in 2015 with it to boost colonization. finally