tv Documentary RT March 5, 2023 6:30pm-7:01pm EST
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ah we always shy but tobacco? we call dish. wonder rock and it's a very sacred rock. it gets here and it's 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 savage, this was a 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. just too high for me. so somebody to put me in the chair and my feet are up, can even touch the floor and they turn the power on electricity, then you can't. when the electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't like go through you. you were tortuga. ah,
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30 below cold edmond. our host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario, home 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,
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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 call and preserve for the i call it my grandfather's line. 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
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building a garden for pictures from the school. so this one is good business, so the students girls been 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.
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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 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,
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they were issued with a uniform and a number is going to be the 1st is that's right. 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 school on their reserve. our building they didn't leave until they were 15. i remember in my 1st day, i remember looking at my mom to little were walking mom. she was very quiet. and somebody else took me by then 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
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run back or go after her, they closed the door. and the you cried, you know her inflect, luke while losing her. mum, you're losing your, losing your mum? whisk him up on the car now for 8 years, the 2 cousins suffered cruelty and ill treatment. it was an experience it mark them for life. even though the escape the very worst of the abuse the rapes post o a dead sea brother broadway can be using a child and took them from the dormitory and the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked the girl, your group after usage where they are and i see mckee put down i had the year the
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whole year to year 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 around or this 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 so ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation. well, citizens is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens. in
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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 and 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 the way from the bush milan and assimilate him indoctrinate him towards the side. i guess it was the way of killing a people, but way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian ah
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could thousands of poles in valeria, in a diabolical ethnic cleansing process. the murderers were particularly horrific and brutal villages were burned and property looted. valinda massacre is without doubt one of the bloodiest episodes in polish ukrainian history. why are ukrainian politicians still reluctant to talk about these events? how to modern day ukraine and poland view this tragedy of the past? and why does the memory of belinda still divide people ah ah, ah ah,
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the missionaries are gone. 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. it's right 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,
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but they're gone. with the last traces of the missionaries presence start to be found nearby in the reserve. okay. just follow me. i'll make a trailer here. it's an infamous spot. a place. nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts with the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. bad spirits here. rather le warriors to run over here after your bish somebody and run here and she kept solution in no weapon south. there's a whip there. punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school.
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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. 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?
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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 raised in. do you know, 48 october is a survivor veritable miracle. like the rest of his family people. most of the last generation taught by nuns and priests, with for a long time,
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drowned his pain in alcohol. like almost half the men in his community. for youth, this music is kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. now is 1112 years old man going to worst code excursions. priest, i can see raw fruit and all you know are all for took advantage of a lot of laurel marana was 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,
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the priest decided to come and sleep said me and why 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't hear some of them are my relatives and didn't make it drinking 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,
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good drug charges. i got a domestic violence beating up my ex wife, being out my girlfriends and as well 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 and yeah, coffee and i know his like a star, coffee creek 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 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
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. 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 had to say. so natalie say, now it is mad. running late, talking about it. but yeah, what it made me, it made me the person i am today because i'm
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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 143 percent of 1st nation youths between the ages of 12 and 24 have addiction issues. women are the biggest victims. in canada,
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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 time aside, phenomena was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study. oh i i am a product of the residential school. i was raped by
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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 bought. that sick with pictures of you couldn't even recognize my face. broken bones. no more stolen sisters. no more stores. no more. it's dawn lynne with stolen sisters more than 4000 of them in 30 years. it's
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