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scott's, i'll, i'll be back again at the top of the hour with all the latest news news analysis writes here on oxy, thanks very much for watching. ah
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there is a price on each native person for $5.00 for a piece of scope of indian male. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve. not part of canada. never decided so i was in school 8 years. physician, terrible people it's
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impossible to forget what happened there. ah we always shy but tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a british shaker rock. it gets here and it's a big, big rock. and we call it a grandfather rock. we sank a grandfather for looking after us and taken care of us as we travel.
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they tried to tell us that this with a 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. first 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,
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then you can't. wendy electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't like go through you. you were tortured like that. ah, ah, they make us a book and because they want to learn they broke their children. what did they go? did this or do anything i was touched, the child i
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think i think with 30 below 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
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they were set up in the late 19th century by the indian act. the law governing the indigenous population. this racist build, made them 2nd class citizens separate from white people. ah. today they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then, they were savages. i am designated ascii indian old lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada. here and here the government wants to call and reserve for the i call it my grandfather's line. the indian act is still applicable today. it was introduced in an attempt to settle
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and thus better control, a nomadic people, along with their territory and resources. the reserves were run by nuns and priests. their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them. we're building a garden for pictures from a school. so this one is good business. so the students girls, the nuns, and these are the brothers ah blade brothers. and that prisoners are here, it's hard to resist at that time, very hard to resist. ah,
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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 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
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. 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 proof is that way we ought to be ready for the aim was to make them good little white children and good little christians. i mean edmond 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,
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2 of the were walk in love. she was very quiet. and if somebody else took me by then 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, we're in slight blue while losing our mum, you're losing your losing your mum is come up on this council 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 post
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o a dead sea brother broadway can be using a child and to them from man to dormitory. and the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement. and that's where you talk to grow. your group after we finish where they are and i say mckee put down, i had the u. t whole cio version they were like, oh but if i i could never sleep because i always knew there was something there. somebody, i could hear somebody moving around 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
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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 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 lands 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, the think the indian,
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the way from the book, the land and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people the way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian ah ah,
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i am extension and i am here to plead 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. welcome, but please, if you have the state department, the cia weapons makers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations, choose your facts for you. go ahead. i change and whatever you do. don't watch my show, stay mainstream, because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact, but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way in thing ah, but they really are not going to go. we use and i made it failed, but ideally chaslek knowledge was focal, more of neat and clean. so key ikea. i'm of course this, of course the thing to be that the for me from all to you. all i don't know when he
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was i was children, medi medicare for this, or you can throw this up here, but i keep getting a call when you just want to get up on my bill. now. the key for david perez watson, give me a buzz, if you will, please send me the income when i came on here with a fuck gold plan. family for me. do not need the inside. and so gina, i don't home on by the time to see to deal with the game, reviled immanuel good. come for us, the details of what i was on the way to waste oil by fabrics in your cheerios. i was going to them saw xander capital childrens spoke with lucy shantell griffin, assuming you a new modem,
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which we think will 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
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a school us 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, 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
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. 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 the priest's summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. pat. spirits here. father 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 there. 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 the cabin here, sir brittany or something i have been
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ah! for 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? one day you wake up in jail, got thank with
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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, the youth flee the poverty of the reserves and end up here at the end of the road. in thunder bay,
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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, i was a raised university now 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.
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for youth. this music is 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, are all for took advantage of a lot of a lot of lot of us there was no winter boys walking on the ice, going to the trap line. and we couldn't go back because we're early, we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time, the police decided to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night a can zip my zip my my,
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my sleeping wag. grab the manners and go, i can hear some of them are my relatives and didn't make it drinking themselves to death over doses. 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, sorry,
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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. greedy carter anthem the bear of 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 in best when they do it. 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,
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i have when i had my grandson here so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say. so natalie say now it is mad. running late talking about it. but yeah, did make me it made me the person i am today because i'm afraid i don't give up with anything i know has always wanted to break the vicious circle of trauma. she
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remained silent on the subject to protect grandchildren and spare them the fate that 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 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. dictums of the violence inflicted by men, whether white or indigenous, broken by the inherited trauma of colonization,
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we are targeted as easy prey. this time aside, phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study ah, with 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
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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 a with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. ah
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ah ah, for the west is self centered egotistical and very unaware. this is particularly true when it comes to conflict in ukraine. the west ukraine is some kind of moral crusade for the rest of the world. ukraine is a crisis created by the west, and they don't want to have anything to do with with
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ah, to prevent the destination of a permanent businessman claim. it was planned by the same ukraine based group that killed civilians in the nation. brown's collegian last week. process strikes, ukrainian forces, withdrawing from the 50 voc moves also know that the film of which is almost completely surrounded by rushes of. wagner forces both in the program and car considers dropping a deal with the u. s. of a buying f. 16 jet in favor of russian and chinese equivalent that's as the earthquake stricken country reviews expenses almost 80.

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