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of millions of ordinary chinese room with a price on each native person for $5.00 for a piece of scalp for indian mail. $15.00 for women.
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$15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve is not part of canada, never decided so i was in school 8 years. physicians, terrible people. it's impossible to forget what happened there.
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ah we always try but tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a british sacred rock. it gets here. 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 with a savage dis, with pagan way of doing things here
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that's with in the 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 are up, can even touch the floor and turn the power on electricity. when the cat, 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 tortuga.
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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 touched, the child. ah with
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30 below cold edmond, our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario 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 class in separate from white people. ah,
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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, but i call it my grandfather's land. the indian act is still clickable 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,
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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. this is so the students, girls, the nuns, 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.
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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 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,
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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 break he's is that's right. and these are to be ready for the aimless to make them good little white children. and good to be christians . i 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 somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living until
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she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. and the you cried over and float blue while losing her. mum, 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 or a ditzy rather broadaway abusing 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 younger bathroom usage with the quote that i
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had the year she whole to washer they were like, oh butterfield, 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 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.
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well say 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. 0, you take the children, then 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, the lamb and assimilate him. indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing of people, but way of killing a,
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a culture, a nation killed indian. mm hm.
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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 by now, and we don't need to poop. we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with the school has started here because 3 stories building is big enough for 200 students with you
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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 are to be found nearby in the reserve . okay. just follow me. i'll make a trailer here. it's an infamous a place. nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts were
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the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here, bad spirits here by the law warriors to run over here after ya. bish somebody and ran here and she kept solution in no weapon self. there's a whip, punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i did it again. now again, he was running all the time to to that cabin here, sir brittany or something i have been ah. abandoned since the late 1990 s. the huts are almost intact.
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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 fail, got think with
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in cold drives everyone from the sidewalk, they are the only ones left street indians, the image of a 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,
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i was raised even do 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 this music has kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. now is 1112 years old ran going to voice code excursions, priest the like and c name ralph roy, you know, you know,
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are all for took advantage of a lot of a lot of lot of us it was winter boys walking on the ice, going to the trap line and we couldn't go back because we're only way to cross 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 unzip, my my my sleeping bag and grab the in man, there's a guy that i can he
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some of them are my relatives and didn't make it jerking themselves to death. over doses. through 3rd 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 as with that it's, it's hard for her. so the scary thing to talk about in his plight. otherwise, been able to count on his and yeah, coffee. okay. i know his lucky star covers greedy cocker.
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i'm from the berry plan. you said it was my grandmother. she always said to me, i never go to bed with dirty dishes on the table cuz 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 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 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. fare them the fate befalls most of the communities. youngsters. ah,
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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 time aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study ah,
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[000:00:00;00] a 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 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
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face. broken bones no more stolen, sisters, a stolen sisters more than 4000 of them in 30 years i. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history in rec center, and i'm here to played with you whatever you do. you do not watch my, your show seriously. why watch something that's so different. my little opinions that you won't get anywhere else, work of it please, or do you have the state department, the c, i a weapons, bankers,
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