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tv   Documentary  RT  November 20, 2022 5:30pm-6:00pm EST

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i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such short or is it conflict with the 1st law? show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is to place trust rather than a very job with artificial intelligence. real. somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with with
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a price on each native prison for $5.00 for a piece of scalp indian mail. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail to call it
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a reserve is not part of canada for the pilot. i was in school years. physician terrible people it's impossible to forget what happened there.
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we always shy but tobacco? we call dish. wonder rock and it's a bit shaker to rock it here and it is a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we think a grandfather for looking 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
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. that's it. ah. the next school i was electrocuted. twice. i was only 7 years old 1st 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. when the cat, wendy electric, they go, if you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it, she can't like go through you. you were tortured like that. ah, they may get broken because they want to learn
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will they broke their children? what did they do? did this or do anything? i was just a child with
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the blow cold. yeah. ah 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 class citizens separate from white people. today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then,
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they were savages. i am designated asked 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. we're building a garden over the for pictures from the school.
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so this one is good. this is so the students girls than months. and it are the brothers. i'll 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,
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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 is going to be the 1st he's is that's right. and these are to be very from
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the aim was to make them good little white children and good little christians. ah edmund 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 home. she was very quiet. and so somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with 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. they and the you cried, you know,
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over and float luc while losing your mom, you're losing your, losing your mum. missed him up on the current. no, 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 ditzy brother boy abusing a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. and that's where you attack your girl, your group bathroom usage, where they are in a rush, amity put down. i had the year she whole tier 2 voyager. they were like, oh butterfield,
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i could never sleep because i always knew there was something there. somebody, i could hear somebody moving our owner because it was the worst part from you 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, st. dan's is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens in a little over a century, 150000 children attended these institutions. ah,
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4000 of them lost their lines. the last residential school closed down in 1996. i think the children can 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 lab 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. there were genocide, i guess there was the way of killing of people the way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian yet. mm ah ah
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ah small boy, is this the best of both? no issue. my for them all the when you annual g d p per capita is about $4000.00 euros. a lot does that. we've got drugs calling in a mold, a washing machine of man. i asked the seal, i'm quite sure any kid for me please, will you find him on the line with a thought they would have thought of unemployment is off the chance. moldova territorial integrity and sovereignty. we respect a country which enjoys financial support from the u. s. envy you is constantly roth by political and corruption scandals,
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but all that didn't stop moldova or obtaining your candidate status in 2022. ah ah ah news, i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know.
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i 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 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,
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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. ok. just follow me. i'll make a trailer here. it's an infamous a place. nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts were the priest's summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here.
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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 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 too. for that cabin here, sir brittany or something happened? ah. abandon since the late 19 ninety's, the huts are almost in tack. time has stood still. ah, the ghosts are all that remains of the trauma that haunts edmond and the 1st
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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 in
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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, the 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,
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a veritable miracle. like the rest of his family. he belongs to the last generation, taught by nuns and priests with for a long time to drown his pain in alcohol. like almost half the men in his community for this music has kept me alive, kept me alive all these years now is 1112 years old man 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 it was
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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 unzipped my that my my, my sleeping wake and grab the manners and go i can hear some of them are my relatives didn't make it jerking themselves to death over doses,
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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 that's what that's 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. a i know is like a star coffee creek cocker. i'm from the barrack plan. failure to my grandmother, she always said to me,
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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 in here so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say . so natalie say, now it is mad. came in late talking about it,
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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,
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yet all seem to carry the burden. and 143 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. this fam aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study ah, with
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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 sister is a with
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stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history a ah, the elections are almost completely removed from day to day lives to the american people. and so the american people, i believe it provided good information left to their own devices. we come to far more reasonable foreign conclusions and are coming to about world events, right? a
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while we have which are ours, we may, you know, not know, let you to really, you care about me and if you care about to play, i wish somebody could just tell me black their hair, lynching the beating poverty why supremacy is disgusting. and the people in mississippi voted on a fly, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and flag our purpose is to to plan a good name. it's a better help because of these monuments that you see everywhere or not. they're not monuments to the confederate government. they're monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the battery. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything. oh,
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a very taboo. canada hasn't been very good to indigenous women and girls who have been missing or found murdered because of the structural racism history, the corneal history, either canada hardwood indigenous are people and communities. and it's a shameful history and a history that calendar doesn't like to talk about not until just into those election in 2015 with a to booze of colonization. finally shattered.

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