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tv   Documentary  RT  April 3, 2023 7:30pm-8:00pm EDT

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ah, some nations 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, we can meet with you little bit about it all ready? basie. so the city draw you look at the book they incentives of each cigarette. color. reverend notions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them on to the help of u. s. weston economic interests. people in sadie. i didn't that he did to everybody
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did them. okay. yeah. yeah. you returning clack they so no, we just say low their soft power to the final goal of these seem revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. oh, who needs to come to the russian state will never be tied up on the nose on steve. i'm not getting close, i'll some stuff with. okay, so my niece group i'm speaking with will van in the european union? the kremlin? yup. machine. the state on russia for date and c r t spoke that given our video agency, roughly all band on youtube was she did you say
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a request to check the news? oh the
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price. each native prison $25.00 for a piece of scalp for indian male. $15.00 for women. $15.00 for children. they put me in a legal jail regarded a reserve. not part of canada. never be part of the the years ignition terrible people. ah
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ah, it's impossible to forget what app with we always shy but tobacco we call dish. wonder rock and it's a very shaker rock. it gets here and it's 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
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they tried to tell us that this was 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 in the chair and my feet are up, can even touch the floor and turn the power on electricity. then you can't.
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when the electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go to you. you were torture. i got ah, they made it because they went to the airline. will they broke their children? what did i go? did this or that didn't do anything. i was just a child 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
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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 as indian oh 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 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
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. 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 the for pictures from the school. so this one is good. this is her, the students, girls, the nuns. and these are the brothers. ah blade brothers and the prisoners are here, it is 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 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
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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 1st day is that's way maybe ought to be baby from the aimless to make them good little white children and good little christians. i'm with the, the school. i didn't see my mom living here losing your mom in this account for 8 years, 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
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o a dead sea brother broadway. and be using a child. and to them from man to dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked the girl your letter bathroom usage where they are and i seem to put down i had the u haul or not to provide you. they were like the butterfield 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.
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ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation wealthy dance is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens in, in a little over a century. 150000 children attended these institutions for 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 lamps that knew the land that were connected to the lab. and that's what these policies
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were predict the indian out of the bush, that the, the indian, the way from the book, the land and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people way of killing a culture, a nation killed indian mm ah ah
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ah, i can assure you roughly where the school is burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know. ah! take me to court. i don't know, only the fire knows are happy 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
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the school is 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 nail on the or indeed your vomit electrocution in. but i'm still here. i'm still standing up, but they're gone. the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve.
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ok, this follow me. i'll make a trip here. it's an infamous spot. a place nobody comes to any more. these abandoned huts were the priests, summer residences. it's too dirty. you don't want to be here. pat. spirits here. father le warriors to run over here after a bitch somebody and ran here and she kept solution and no 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 i have been
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ah, for abandoned since the late 19 ninety's. the huts are almost intact time had stood still ah, the ghosts are all that remains of the trauma that haunts edmund and the 1st nations peoples every single day. ah, that's how i grew up. ah, it is really hard to to get over that. how do you get over that? when they wake up in jail, got thank with
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cold drugs everyone from the sidewalk. they are the only ones left st 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,
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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, 48th october is a survivor, a veritable miracle. like the rest of his family people. most of the last generation taught by nuns and priests. ah, for a long time, drowned his pain in alcohol, like almost half the men in his community.
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for you. this music has kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. now is 1112 years old then. going to voice code excursions, priest the lake and c. name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all for took advantage of a lot of who are of more of us it 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 decided to come and sleep said me and why my sleeping way towards the night a friends of mine unzipped my my
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my sleeping wage and grab the young man, there's a girl, i can't he some of them are. my relatives didn't make it jerking 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 in all good 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 her 3rd,
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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 cocker. i'm from the barrett 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 billed, 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,
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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 certain that we 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. the 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. inflicted by men, whether white or indigenous, broken by the inherited trauma of colonization, we are targeted as easy prey
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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
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been beaten by men by my partners. really bad, where my doctor, 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. so no more. it's dawn with stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history ah, [000:00:00;00]
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with edison both, both the models you need to do both got nelson's meals, the deal with a, with a lot of them bought a a with, with personal number be ended up
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with with ah, what have you done i bought the statue that exploded the main suspect in a tower attack. they took the life of a permanent russian journalist, agreed to cooperate with law enforcement accuses ukraine of being behind the the turkish president. say if the countries door was closed to the us, i'm after that, that's off the jeff we flake met, would be all positions, presidential candidate. and i think the arrest warrant for vladimir putin is likely, based on
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a contradictory report. according to the great news outlet investigator

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