tv Documentary RT April 4, 2023 5:30am-5:58am EDT
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we always shy but tobacco. we call dish. wonder rock and it's a shaker to rock it here and it is a big, big rock. and we call it the grandfather rock. we think 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. ah,
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here that's with in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was only 7 years old, just too high for me through somebody to put me in the chair. and my feet are up, can't even touch the floor. then they turn the power on electricity. then the cat, when the electricity goes, you can let go. because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. he can't go who you you were tortuga. ah,
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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 indigenous population this racist bill 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 as indian o lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada here and here the government wants to call and preserve, but 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 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 garden for fixtures from the school. so this one is good business. so the students girls, the manse, and these are the brothers ah blade brothers, and have said prisoners or hear it hard to resist at that time, very hard to resist. ah, ah, in from the age of $45.00 children were torn from 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 had long hair and i put it in great. so somebody comes behind me, cuts my bread 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's 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 walking alone. 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 she was gone.
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and then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. and oh, you cried. you know, it's like lou while losing her mom, you're losing your losing your mom is come up on this is canceled. no 4 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 cost o a dead sea brother broadway. and be using a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. and as where he attacked a girl younger bathroom ethridge with the quote that i had the year,
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the whole tier 2 voyager. 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. ah, we all came home with a dark secret generation after generation wealthy downs is an infamous school. it was only one of dozens.
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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. 0, you 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 to take the indian away from the bush, milan, and assimilate him indoctrinate him. it would benefit, i guess it was the way of killing people, the way of killing a, a culture, a nation killed indian. yep.
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mm ah with the discovery of the new world, at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantic slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had played the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain,
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france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america, there were 5 who died while captured during transportation, and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this ruthless people tre practice by the leading european countries, took away tens of millions of african lives. the organisation of united nations classifies that trans atlantic slave trade as one of the gravest human rights abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of people ever seen by mankind.
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take me to court. i don't know, only the fire knows for happy the missionaries are gone. you now we can do i own. i know we don't need to poop. we don't need the pope to tell us what to do with a school was right here because 3 stories building and nail on the floor already. he don't wanna bang bang, right. it's to do that cabin here. for all that remains.
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in coal 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 and the life of misery that no one pays any attention to any more. in the frozen downtown
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streets you survive anyway, you can oh, i was 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 is for you. this music is kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. now is 1112 years old then
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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 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 priest decided to come and sleep said me why my sleeping way towards the night he went zip my unzip, my my my sleep in wage and grab the man. that's the girl i can't
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that's over doris's 3rd man. you know? or 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 with. in his plight, otto has been able to count on his hand. yeah, coffee. just for you. i know his lucky star, coffee, grady cocker. i'm from the bare plan. you said it was my grandmother, she always said to me,
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i never go to 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, 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 oh, i have when i had my parents in here so i can say he's 20 here. what i have to say . so natalie say, now it is mad. only talking about it.
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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 her grandchildren, bear them the fate to befalls most of the communities. youngsters. ah, unlike their loved ones, they have not experienced residential schools. ah,
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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. oh i
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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 more stolen sister is a
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stolen sisters. more than 4000 of them in 30 years. oh, it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history. ah . a ship here because they kept a scroll for a year, matthew with greater finland to the euro's, the nazi theory of racial superiority finish style. for years of caribbean ss, occupation, 14 concentration camps, 30 full prisoner of war, labor camps. 10 prisons, a little skill level. she's the media and you're still not seeing it,
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but need in the chest. maybe to get all and i could, elephants been listening. bill's gonna be approximately 25000 people went through the audio kind of go finish camps according to official figures. his booster, dumbly level. if that's yet, did you do it in leg? my dear nashika snyder a stuff. so again, caucus try me here. what? salmon disease forced labor torture by the warden. so for mutual was eating up a lot of blogger that also need, you know, i thought to keep it, you got that it's a table of human off. what does it mean? 9 push that sees up a gives you a, as is of testimonies of crimes in the impunity of criminals. not war when you've got here. you know, all of, if i get as big maryan as your idea of what a good i feel, if not why me. it was i lose you got to live with us here just because i you, but there's a dang yet. i was, but it up lula i
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may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries, the united states of america is different. wearable people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with you little bit about it all to anybody phase. so the city p draw you look at the incentives of each cigarette. a few color revolutions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the help of u. s. western economic interests. people in sadie, i didn't that he did to everybody did them. okay. yeah. you are so know we, that's
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a little bit soft our america, the final goal of these seem revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah, the main suspect in the terror attack that took the life of the prominent russian journal it awaits her 1st court hearing and moscow falling and explosion in saint petersburg. a warning you may find the falling, but it's distressing. a visit healy released, but it shows the immediate aftermath of the detonation as survivors of the attack are seen running away from this theme covered in flood and collaborating with isis for prostate french intelligence services. are you
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