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. And not part of canada. Never decided so i was in school there 8 years. Missionaries, terrible people. Ah, ah, its impossible to forget what happened there. We always shy but tobacco. We call dish. Wonder rock and its a bit shaker to rock it here and its a big, big rock and we call it a grandfather rock. We thank the grandfather fro token 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 thats 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 there up can even touch the floor and they turn the power on electricity and you cant, wendy electricity goes, you can let go. Because the gen, the electricity makes you tighten it. She cant like off her. You can, you were tortuga. Ah, they make us because they wanna airline will they broke their children . What did i go, did this or do anything i was just the child. Ah. With 30 below cold edmond, our host is the former chief of this Remote Community in northern ontario in 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 they are known as 1st nations peoples. Back then, they were savages. I am designated ascii indian old lives inside i reserve to separate the we are hidden people of canada here and here the government wants the color preserve for the i call it my grandfathers 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 while were building a garden for pictures from the school. So this one is Good Business where the students girls been months and these are the brothers. Are blake brothers, and that prisoners are here. Its hard to resist. At that time, very hard to resist. Ah, ah, with 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. 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 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 day is thats right. And we ought to be ready on the aimless to make them good little white children and good little christians. I me with edmund and his cousin spent their childhood at saint dans, the school on their reserve, our building they didnt leave until they were 15. I remember my 1st day. I remember looking at my mom, 2 of the were walking loan. She was very quiet. And somebody else took me by them, but by then i was overwhelmed with the school. I didnt see my mom leaving unto us. She was gone. And then when i tried to run back or go after her, they closed the door. And oh, you cried. Lowered in slow, little while losing her mom. Youre losing your 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 pushed away ditzy rather broadaway and being a child and took them from the dormitory on the 3rd floor, brought him down to the basement. And thats where you have time to grow your group after we finish with that had the year 2 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 our owner who was it was the worst part for me was always waiting every night just like there was somebody there thats gonna grab you. Thats 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 or you take the children and you eliminate all their knowledge of their history, their culture. Then youre basically killing the people that grew up on these lamps. That knew the land that were connected to the lab. And thats what these policies were predict the indian out at a bush to take the indian the way from the bush milan and assimilate him indoctrinate him. There were genocide, i guess there was the way of killing a people, but way of killing a, a culture, a nation killed in me on this edition of the program, we asked 3 questions. How is the conflict in ukraine likely to and why does the west refuse to negotiate an end to the conflict . And how will the International Order likely change as a result of the conflict in ukraine . O in 2022, the Italian Government approved a package of military aid to ukraine coordination with nature to help ukrainians defend themselves and fight back about 150000000 euros. Well, i make a weep, almost even atomic bombs are here, even on the same naco and the u. F with the one that people will die just for make money. The one that has been yes, care there while you must, who got through on it. If youre gone through or not, you are complete. I mean, theres more dollars a month as well. Dollars more sir. Me my show it back to shore. Able hopa. Zach leila. Lesser opinion polls show that over 70 percent of italians are against military support for ukraine. I landed in confront with the day for last or if i dont a lateral yet lee. Got it more on a skid out and go home and do not. She then did the daily desperate. Wonderful. I lucille my last lot a lot you there because he has been a food hes and were not only in fund fee that the laptop lou, i can assure you roughly where the scores burned down. Fire took it by accident. We dont know. A take me to court. I dont know, only the fire knows for happy the missionaries are gone and now we can do our own. Find our own way. We dont need coupe. We dont need the pope to tell us what to do with a school. Its 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 tears. 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 im still here. Im Still Standing up, but theyre gone. With the last traces of the missionaries presence are to be found nearby in the reserve. Okay. Just follow me. Ill make a trailer here. Its an infamous spot. A place. Nobody comes to any more. These abandoned huts with the priests, summer residences. Its too dirty. You dont want to be here. Bad spirits here. Father law warriors to run over here after bish somebody and ran here and she kept solution in no weapon south. Theres a whip there. Punish himself. Everybody saw him running away from the school. So they said i did it again. Now again, he was running all the time to to the cabin here, sir brittany or something happened . Ah. Abandon 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, thats 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. Got thank ah, cole 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, the 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 streets you survive anyway, you can oh, i was a raised university now 48 october, 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. For this music is kept me alive, kept me alive all these years. Now is 1112 years old then 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 lot of us it was winter boys walking on the ice, going to the trap line and we couldnt go back because were 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 and zip my zip my my my sleeping bag and grab the in man, theres a girl i can hear some of them are my relatives didnt make it jerking themselves to death, over doses. Suicide, man, you know, and ive done that before. I put a gun there before. Stick a needle in my arm to hoping to overdose. And ive been to jail, you know, got drug charges. I got a Domestic Violence beating up my ex wife, beating up my girlfriends and its its, its hard for her. So the scary thing to talk. What in his plight, otto has been able to count on his hand. Yeah. Coffee. Okay. I know his lucky star covers greedy cocker. Im 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 thats 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 parents are here so i can say hes when you hear what i have to say. So natalie say, now it is mad. Came in late talking about it. But yet it made me, it made me the person i am today because im a beta i dont give up with anything i know has always wanted to break the vicious circle of trauma. She remained silent on the subject just to protect her grandchildren fare them. The fate 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 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 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 1820012014. Ive been beaten by men by my partners. Really bad, where my doctors, my doctor file is about that sick with pictures of you couldnt even recognize my face. Broken bones no more stolen sisters, no more storms, no more. Its stolen with stolen sisters. More than 4000 of them in 30 years. Its a phenomenon rooted in the countrys history ah a, a precaution you spent with us or forced um, national quito, which is obviously you still with them a couple like from when you do a number a with a copy of a, a very chevy. Canada hasnt been very good to Indigenous Women and girls who have been missing or found murdered because of the Structural Racism history, the clone l. History that canada has with Indigenous People and communities. And its so shameful history and a history that kind of doesnt like to talk about a not until just into those election in 2015 with abuse of colonization, finally shattered a ah, on being elected Prime Minister, the young head of state give a message to the 1st Nations Community working together timely the government of canada, sincerely apologize, us and asks the forgiveness of the Aboriginal Peoples of this country for failing them. So profoundly have to apologize into Residential School victims. The Prime Minister tackle the scandal from us for many decades, Indigenous Women and girls across canada have disappeared, suffered violence, or been killed. It is shameful. It is absolutely unacceptable, and it must end with the 1st time in the countrys history