ah there's a price on each native person for $5.00, for a piece 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 missionaries, terrible people. it's impossible to forget what happened there.

alyssa, but tobacco. we call dish and wonder rock. and it's a british sacred rock. it here and it's a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we thank the grandfather for knocking off chris and taken care of us as we travel they tried to tell us that this with 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. it was too high for me, so somebody put me in the chair and my feet, they're up can even touch the floor and they turn the power on electricity. then you can't. wendy electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. if you can't like, go through you, you were torture with because they went to their land, they broke their children. why did i go,

did this or do anything? i was just the child. ah. 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 bill 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 an indian o 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 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 for pictures from the school. so this one is good business,

so 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 and their families and handed over to missionaries to be educated. 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 stayed allowance? i had long hair and i put it in re 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 the 1st is that's right. and we have to be ready for 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 if they didn't leave until they were 15. i remember my 1st day. i remember looking at my mom to other were walking loan. she was very quiet. and 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, it's like luc while losing her. mum, you're losing your,

losing your mum? whisk him up on this is canceled. no 4 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. and be using a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. and as where he attack your girl, your letter bathroom usage, where they are and i seem to put down i had the year she whole look, cheer voyager. 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 every night 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. 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. 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 them. there were done a failure. there was the way of killing a people that way of killing a, a culture, a nation killed indian. mm

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yes, this is such as that is, is this is possible to see a human at the russian who works well with you at the watch with no, i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know, i take me to court. i don't know. only 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 the school was heard 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. ah, the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay, this follow me omega 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. bad spirits here. father le warriors to run over here after a bitch somebody and ran 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, i guess he was running all the time to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something happened? ah. abandon since the late 19 ninety's, the huts are almost intact. time had stood still. ah, the ghosts are all that remains of the trauma that haunts edmund 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?

one day you wake up in jail got thank ah, cold drives 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, dental 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 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.

for you. this music has kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. now is 1112 years old then going to voice code excursions, priest the like and c name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all for took advantage of a lot of a lot of us there was no 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 said me and why my sleeping way

towards the night he unzipped my unzip, my my, my sleeping bag and grab the in man this and get i can hear some of them are my relatives and didn't make it jerking 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, you know,

got 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. so the scary thing to talk with in his plight, otto has been able to count on his hand. yeah. coffee. just i know he's like a 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 do. 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. oh, i have when i had my parents are 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

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. 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 fam aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study ah, a with 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 182-001-2014. 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. sister is a bill with stolen sisters more than $4000.00 of them in 30 years. i. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history with

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