tv Documentary RT April 3, 2023 3:30am-4:00am EDT
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ah we always shy but tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a bit 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 in the school. they tried to tell us that this with a savage. this was a pagan way of doing things
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here that's with 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 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 coal edmund or host is the former chief of this remote community in northern ontario, a 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 build, made them 2nd citizens, separate from white people. ah. today
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they are known as 1st nations peoples. back then, they were savages. i am designated ash indian all 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 land. the indian act is still applicable today. it was introduced in an attempt to settle and thus better control and 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
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a good number the for pictures from the school. so this one is good business, so the students girls and months. and these are the brothers are blade british and hope 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. 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 have 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 way? we want 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 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 other were walk in love. she was very quiet. and so somebody else took me by then but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living unto us. 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, we're in slow blue while losing our mum, you're losing your losing your mom is come up on this account for ears. the 2 cousins suffered cruelty and ill treatment. it was an experience that 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 that's where you talk to go. your whatever bathroom ethridge, whether you're famously put down i had the u haul or not to provide
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you 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 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. well, st downs 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. i think the children, when 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 predict the indian out of the bush, that the, the indian, the way from the bush, the land and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people, but way of killing a, a culture, a nation killed indian mm
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may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries the united states of america is different. wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with you little bit about it all ready? basie, so the city draw, you look at the book, they incentives of each cigarette feel. color revolutions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them on to the
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help of u. s. western economic interests. people in sadie, i didn't that needed to go by the democrats. yeah. during the training class. so no, we just say low their soft power to the final goal of these seem revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. oh, in 2022, the italian government approved a package of military a to ukraine coordination with nato to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euro as well. i make a week even i told me bombs are hearing on the same nato and the u. s. and the one that people will die just for make money. the one
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that i have done, yes. because why you mess you got few on it. if you go through my sheets are complete, i mean is with on to get, i won't put them in there. we'll talk more sammy, my show pezora tool tool. a for opa exec leila, lesser opinion show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. calander can confront with the date for that last or if i don't it let's. yeah, we don't have a scared out and go home and do not. she then toward the, the daily desperate. wonderful, i, lucille, my food bought a lot. you this food because i'm running fun theater. that layout. ah
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we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with the school is 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 nail on the are and eat your vomit electrocution now. but i'm still here. i'm still standing up,
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but they're gone. the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve. ok, this follow me omega trail here 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 to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something happened? ah, abandon since the late 19 ninety's, the huts are almost intact. time had stood still.
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in 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, a youths 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, dental life of misery, that no one pays any attention to any more. in the frozen downtown streets you survive anyway, you can oh wow.
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a 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, i feel drowned his pain in alcohol, like almost half the men in his community. for youth, this music is kept me alive, kept me alive. old years now is 1112 years old. then 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 us it was the 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 priest decided to come and sleep say me and why my sleeping way towards the night a wednesday may and zip my my my sleeping bag and grab the in man. this and go, i can hear
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some of them are my relatives didn't make it jerking themselves to death over doris's 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 in all good 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 market. i know his lucky star, coffee creek hacker i'm
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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 as to why people get sick. she says, and this 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, i have when i had my grandson here so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say certain that we say now it is mad
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only talking about it. but yeah, i 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 remained silent on the subject to protect grandchildren and spare them the fate that 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 fam aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study
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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 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. no more. so no more. it's don't with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history with us is a danger to the world as it is. and because it has all this economic power that it uses for the military. these are sick and twisted people that care about nothing but money and power. i, it's not even, hey,
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i think i think they're indifferent. they just want money and power and they don't, they're indifferent to who dice and as long as they can get that money and power a, i will ensure that joe biden does not receive for more years. do you believe trump as a general rule? no, never. we must conduct a top to bottom overhaul to clean out the festering rod and corruption of washington d. c. o. by did is pushing us to world war 3. i mean, i a, you have to consider that. that is the worst. i mean, we should never be in a the u. s. has no business in ukraine. ah
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you have to figure out this thing because the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground with ah, we start with breaking news. a russian war correspondent has been killed in an explosion in saint petersburg with at least 31 more people injured, including
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a 14 year old girl. we spoke to a victim of the attack junior point, i was talking to my competitive bloodline to, to our school. i managed to ask him a couple of questions and then the blast. a woman is suspected of bringing the bomb into the cafe before the last took place. to say she handed the explosive device.
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