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tv   Documentary  RT  November 20, 2022 7:30pm-8:01pm EST

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ah, ah ah ah, ah ah l 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
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conflict with the 1st law? show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point obviously is too great truck rather than a barrier shop with artificial intelligence, real, somebody with a robot must protect its own existence with ah
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ah there's a price on each native person for $5.00 for a piece of sculpt. indian male. $15.00 for women, $15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve is not part of canada. never decided
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so i was in school years missionaries, terrible people. it's impossible to forget what happened there. we always shut tobacco. we call dish. i wonder rock and it's a shaker rock. it's just, it's here and it's just, it's a big,
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big rock and we called it the 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 with 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,
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was too high for me, so somebody put me on the chair and my feed her up can't even touch the floor. and they turn the power on electricity. when the cat, wendy electricity goes, you candidly goal? cuz the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. she can't like go through you. you were tortuga. ah, they make it because they want to their land. will they broke their children? why did i go, did this or do anything? i was just a child with
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30 below cold edmond or host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario
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to 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 asked indian oh lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada here and here the government wants to
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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 for pictures from the school. so this one is good business. so the students girls, the man's and these are the brothers ah blade brothers.
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and that prisoners are here. it is 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
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because i had long hair and i put it in rates. 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 way? we have to be ready for the english 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
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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 alone. 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 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 luke while losing her. mum. you're losing here. losing your mum? whisk him up on is the council?
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look 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 broadaway 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 attacked a girl. yogurt, bathroom usage with that i had the year, the whole tier 2 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 was it? it was the worst part for me was always waiting every night. like
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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 downs 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,
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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 the way 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 a culture, a nation killed indian yet. ah ah ah ah ah
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ah to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally and getting to disease. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, is very critical time time to sit down and talk now. so i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down.
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fire took it by accident. we don't know a 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 is right here. because 3 stories building is big enough for 200 students with you know what we never gave missionaries. we never show them our tears. we never cried
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. 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, ah! the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay, just 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.
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spirits here. father law warriors to run over here after ya, bish 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, i guess he was running all the time too. for that cabin here, sir brittany or something happened? ah! abandoned since the late 1990 s. the huts are almost intact. time has stood still. ah,
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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 fail, thank who in
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cold drives everyone from the sidewalk. they are the only ones left st. indians, the image of the dying people tempted by a better life. first nations hughes, 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 a
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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 pin 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 bacon, c. name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full of took advantage of
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a lot of a lot of lot of us burglary winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line. we couldn't go back is we're already we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time the priest decided to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night a friend, zip my and my my my sleeping bag and grab the man. this and go i can hear some of them are my relatives
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didn't make it jerking themselves to death over doors. his 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. 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 it's, it's hard for her. sorry. the scary thing to talk. what in his plight, otto has been able to count on his and yeah, coffee. just, i know his like a star, coffee. grady cocker i'm
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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, and 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.
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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,
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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. oh i
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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's, my doctor file is about that sick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my face. broken bones no
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more stolen, sisters a with stolen sisters more than 4000 of them in 30 years. i. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. ah, no. when i was showing wrong, when i just don't hold any world, yes to shape out becomes the advocate and engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart,
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we choose to look so common ground in only 41 percent of usaa does have enough savings to cover a $1000.00 emergency. we have record numbers of americans who are on the verge of having their cars repossess more than a 137000000 americans are facing financial hardship because of medical that in america we do have a welfare system in place to help people who are struggling financially, but it's a conditional system you have to prove to the government that you truly need help. the simplest way, like explain a basic income, is that it's like social security for the rest of us. a basic income would be a monthly payment that would go to everyone, does it? there are some dollars a month, no strings attached about. i don't know, i just won't go crazy. the reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it.
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