tv Documentary RT April 4, 2023 12:00am-12:30am EDT
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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 put me in the chair and my feet, they're up can even touch the floor and they turn the power on electricity. then you can't. wendy electricity goes, you candidly goal? cuz the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. if you can't like, go through you. you were tortuga.
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made them 2nd class citizens separate from white. 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 a nomadic people along with their territory and resources. the
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reserves were run by nuns and priests. their mission was to evangelize the savages to assimilate them our building. hey, katelyn with her pictures from the school. so this one is good business her the students, girls and 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 from
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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 great. 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,
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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 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 so somebody else took me by then but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. i didn't see my mom living until
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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, it's like luke while losing her. mum, you're losing here losing your mom is come up on this account 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 will post o a dead sea brother broadway. and be using a child and to them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked the girl,
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your letter bathroom ethridge where they are. and i see mckee put down. i had the year she whole look to 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 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 wealthy
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dance 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 lines. 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 take the indian away from the bush, milan, and assimilate him indoctrinate him with genocide, i guess it was the way of killing a people, the way of killing a culture,
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a nation killed indian mm ah ah, ah, i can't imagine as situation in which here would be me being natal auto cross station old out of some anger or out of some instances or out of a dispute with one or 2 nato members. we have learned how to deal with them. why not? so if they basically do something nasty to us, we can do something more nasty to them.
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ah ah i rick sanchez and i am here to plead with you whatever you do, you do not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that's so different. my little opinions that you won't get anywhere else. look of it please. if you have the state department, the c, i a weapons makers, multi $1000000000.00 corporations,
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choose your fax 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. and dwayne things lou, i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down. fire took it by accident. we don't know. i 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.
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we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with a 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 kneel on the floor and eat your vomit electrocution. but i'm still here. i'm still standing up, but they're gone. with
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the last traces of the missionaries presence are 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 were the priest summer residences. it's too dirty. he don't want to be here. bad spirits here. father la used to run over here after a bitch somebody and ran here and she kept solution and no weapon south. there's a whip, punish himself. everybody saw him running away from the school. so they said i
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did it again. now, i guess he was running all the time to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something i have been ah. abandoned since the late 19 ninety'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? when they wake up in jail,
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got thank with tempted by a better life. first nations, a youth flea, 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 a
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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 all these years. now is 1112 years old then going to worse code excursions, priest the like and c name ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full of took advantage of
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a lot of world. moto was it was winter boys walking on the ice going to the trap line. we couldn't go back because we're already we crossed the leak going in the bush and night time. the police decide to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night he went zip my unzip my my my sleeping wage and grabbed the menace and go i can hear some of them are my relatives
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and didn't make it jerking 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 as with that it's it's hard for her. sorry. the scary thing to talk. what in his plight, otto has been able to count on his hand. yeah. coffee. morgan, if i know his lucky star coffee, greedy cocker anthem the bear of clan
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failure to 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. that's why people get sick, she says, and that's what i do. 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 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, it made me, it made me, i'm 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, unlike their loved ones,
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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. 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 fam aside phenomenon was acknowledged by the state after a 2 year nationwide study ah,
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a 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 with broken bones. no
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more stolen sisters. no more a stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. a phenomenon rooted in the country's history for 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
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you little bit about it all ready? basie. so the city, if you draw you look at the book they incentives that needs to get a few color revel. notions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them on to the health of u. s. western economic interests. people inside it. i don't that keep it to everybody did them. okay. yeah, yeah, you tuning correctly. so no, that's a little bit soft by medicare to the final goal of these thing. revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on a very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how
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that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time time to sit down and talk who memory loss is unusual, forgetfulness, and a form of memory loss is an ability to recall past events with can be general. we're concerned some specific events solely in some cases the memory laws can extend back decades start an intensive course of memory recovery on r t ah
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