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price. each native prison $25.00 for a piece of scalp for indian mail. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. they put me in their legal jail, valid reserve. not part of canada. never be part of the was in school years technicians and terrible people. ah. it's impossible to good afternoon. ah.

we always shy but tobacco? we call dish. wonder rock and it's a bit shaker. rock it here and it is a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we thank the grandfather fro token after us and taken care of us as we travel

into school. they tried to tell us that this was 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, just too high for me, so somebody put me in the chair and my feet, they're up can't even touch the floor. and they turn the power on electricity. when the cat, wendy electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen,

the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go to you. you were torture like ah, they make it because they want to their land feel they broke their children. why did i go, did this or do anything i was just a child with

a blow. 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 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 line. 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 a garden the for pictures from the school. so this one is good business. so the students, girls and lance. and these are the brothers ah blade brothers. 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 meagre 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 person who's that's right. and we want to be ready for the aimless 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 to little were walking loan.

she was very quiet. and somebody else took me by then but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living until us. she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door and the you cried lower and slow. little while losing her mom. you're losing your losing your mom is come 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 over a dead sea, rather broadaway 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 bathroom usage with put down i had the year she whole to 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 wealthy 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 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

with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing of people the way of killing a, a culture, a nation. killed indian. mm oh the western countries are very concerned. the china might be sending russia missile weapons as a way to help brush us military campaign in ukraine. personally, it's my just personal view. i'm very suspicious of that, but i don't buy doesn't fit, contradicts to what i see. the basic logic of behavior puts on the phone, the chinese state. ah

ah well, emily and not of course you go, we use and i made it salem, but i seen you chaslek now which was vocal more of neat and clean. so keep, i keep them up recorded, requested in even fee for me from all you, all out of them when they were children, medi medicare, for this whole you can throw this up here. i think a coil. you just want to get a better puzzle. now the key for table, thread watson is the voice i big, but as it books you don't put up with somebody about a fire that you don't want gold. and i guess i need to match the sided. so genia

a cause of the game, be wild immanuel good for us, the nick is off, but i was hoping that came the way to waste oil by fabrics in your cheerios. i was on saw vanda capital children. i spoke with shantell, assuming in the modem, which would really seem cool. ah, i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know. a 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. we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with a school. it's 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 . 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 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. bad spirits here. father law warriors to run over here after bish

somebody and ran here and she kept solution in 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 that 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, coal 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 and a 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, 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 worse code excursions, priest, i can see your 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 police decided to come and sleep beside me and by my sleeping way towards the night he went zip my unzip, my my my sleeping bag and grab the man there's a girl i can hear some of them are my relatives and 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, you know, got drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife, being out my girlfriends. and 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 hand. yeah. coffee. it, i know his lucky star coffee creek cocker. 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. that's why people get sick. she says, and this what i 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 parents in here so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say . so that we say now it is mad. plainly talking about it.

but yeah, it may me, it made me am the person i am today. because i'm a painter, i don't give up with anything. ah, i know has always wanted to break the vicious circle of trauma. she remained silent on the subject or she just to protect her grandchildren and spare them the fate that befalls most of the communities. youngsters. ah, unlike their loved ones, they have not experienced residential schools 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. 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 a

man, 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. so i don't know what's going on with

stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. i, it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history for ah, with the discovery of the new world, at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantic slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had

laid the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america, there were 5 who died while captured during transportation, and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this ruthless people tre practice by the leading european countries, took away tens of millions of african lives. the organisation of united nations classifies that trans atlantic slave trade as one of the gravest human rights abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of

people ever seen by mankind. ah ah ah, last year the world's 9 nuclear arm states spend over $82000000000.00 collectively on their nuclear arsenal. now that is a dramatic increase from the previous year.