tv Documentary RT April 4, 2023 9:30pm-9:57pm EDT
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the cold. yeah. they were set up in the late this racist build me day. they are known as 1st nations 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 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 good november the 3rd picture is from a school. so this one is good. this is so 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 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 and we want to be ready for the aim was to make them good little white children. and good to the 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 to other were walk in. she was very quiet. and a, somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the the school i didn't see my mom living unto us. she was gone. and then when i tried to run back
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or go after they closed the door and the you cried over in slow little while losing her mom. you're losing your losing your mom. miss him on this account. no 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 boy can be using a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor brought him down to the basement and that's where you talk to go your bathroom ethridge with put down i had the u haul or not to provide you. they were like
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a better file. 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 this 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,
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150000 children attended these institutions. ah, 4000 of them lost their lives in 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 land that were connected to the lab and that's what these policies were predict the indian out of the bush, the think 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 but way of killing a culture, a nation. killed indian mm
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. ah . this in 1935 fascists, italy, led by dictator benito mussolini. decided to expand its colonial empire in africa and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896. its inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october, 3, 1935. without any announcement,
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the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously, but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe stats at approval. britain and france recognized the annexation, given the green light to further fascist expansion in the world pen paving the way for the outbreak of world war 2. ah
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ah. organ trio roughly. where is a scores and ah, 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. 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 a school is right here. figure 3 stories building is big
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enough for a 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 . okay, i just follow me. i'll make a trailer here. it's an infamous spot.
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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. bad spirits here. father law warriors to run over here after ya, bish somebody and run here and she kept solution in 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 ah
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abandoned since the late 1990 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, got thank ah,
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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 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 you now 48 october is a survivor a veritable miracle. like the rest of his family. a 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. for youth, this music is kept me alive, kept me alive, and all these years now is 11. 12 years old. i'm going to worst
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code excursions, priest, i can see ralph roy, you know, you know, are all full of took advantage of a lot of world. moto was 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 police decided to come and sleep say me and why my sleeping way towards the night a can zip my zip my my my sleeping way. and grab the
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madness and go i can hear some of them are my relatives 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, when i got 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 3rd, the scary thing to talk. what in his plight,
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otto has been able to count on his hand. yeah. coffee market. i know his lucky star, coffee, greedy 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 cuz 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. well, i have when i had my grandson here, so i can say he's 20 here. what i had to say. so natalie say
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now it is mad. coming in late talking about it. but yeah, it made 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 to befalls most of the communities.
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youngsters. ah, 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
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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. it's a phenomenon rooted in the country's history with i can't imagine as future windshield in which target would be me being natal auto cross station old out of some anger or out of some answers or out of
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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. with us is a danger to the world as it is. and because it has all the 2nd nomic power that it uses for the military, these are sick and twisted people. they care about nothing but money empower i. it's not even, hey, 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, oh ah,
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i will ensure that joe biden is not received 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 dc abided as 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 position the u. s. has no business in ukraine with sonia history. that canada has worked indigenous people and communities and to get so shameful history and a history that canada doesn't like to talk about not
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