well, that's all for this off. i'm on any of those stories, those oil coach lou with a price on each native person for $5.00 for a piece of indian male $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children.

they put me in a legal jail to call it a reserve it not part of canada. never did so i was in school for people. it's impossible to forget what happened there.

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 for looking after us and taken care of us as we travel they tried to tell us that this was 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. just too high for me, so somebody to put me on the chair and my feet. they're up can't even touch the floor. and they turn the power on electricity, then you can't. wendy electricity goes, you candidly goal? because the gen the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go who you you were torture. i got ah,

they made us because they went to their land. 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 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 build, 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 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 land. the indian act is still applicable to day 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 while we're building a garden. this her pictures from the school.

so this one is good. this is her, 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. 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 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, 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 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 if they didn't leave until they were 15. i remember my 1st day. i remember looking at my mom, 2 of the were walking mom. 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 she was gone. and then when i tried to run back or go after her,

they closed the door. then the you cried. lowered inflect. luke, while losing her mom, you're losing your, losing your mum? him up of this is canceled. no 4 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 on the 3rd floor. brought him down to the basement. and as where he attack ago, your whether bathroom ethridge, whether you're famously put down, i had the u haul or not to provide 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 was it was the worst part for me was always waiting. i relate 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 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 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 lands . 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, that they the indian, the way from the bush milan and assimilate him indoctrinate him. there were dennis, i guess there was the way of killing people, the way of killing a, a culture, a nation killed indian. mm

. i 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 a little bit about it all ready? basie, sorta city and draw. you look at both a incentives and we've still got a few color. reverend notions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the help of u. s. weston economic interests. people in sadie,

i didn't that he did to everybody did them. okay. yeah, getting returning clack date. so no, we just say low their softball, m a cat. the final goal of these thing revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah ah,

we don't need to tell us what to do with a school is right here. it's 3 stories building is big enough for 200 students with you know what we never gave the 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 . ok, this follow me. i'll make a trail 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. pat. spirits here. father law warriors to run over here after you abuse somebody and ran here and she kept solution 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 because he was running all the time to to the

cabin here, sir brittany or something happened? oh, ah. abandon since the late 19 nineties, 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,

gut thank been 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 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, dental life, misery that no one pays any attention to any more. ah. in the frozen downtown streets you survive anyway, you can 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. for a long time, drowned his pain in alcohol like almost half the men in his community. for

you. this music has kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years. now is 1112 years old man. going to boys code excursions, priest bacon, c. name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all for took advantage of a lot of oral laura was there was a winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line. we couldn't go back because we're already we crossed the lake going in the bush and night time. the police decide to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way

towards the night a friend zip my unzip, my my my sleep in wage and grab the in minutes and go i can hear some of them are my relatives and didn't make it jigging 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 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 3rd, 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 cocker. i'm from the baron plan. you said it was my grandmother. she always said to me, i never would of 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 this where they 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 are here, so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say. so that we say now it is mad only talking about it. but yeah, i did make 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 grandchildren and spare 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, 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 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 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. ah, it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. ah,

what are you crazy? yes. or 2 and i lost most of my friends. but i was broke and i wasn't able to save anyone. i get nothing that i met wilson, 2030 god. what's really in my way to make me start talking to willy waiting for me to them and i'm happy that trying to find is really little john. you can go to sleep. mama may become my new friend. the one was not going to die or

i was he is, i would stay alive. it was they next to me. if i'm not crazy enough. i'm not gonna make it. oh, just a sheep out. disdain becomes the african and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground with

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