Residential school survivor talks about the electric chair at St. Anne's school

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  • Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
  • St. Anne’s survivor Chris Metatawabin talks about his experience at the notorious school that had an electric chair.
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  • @daviaannc
    @daviaannc 5 лет назад +433

    My grandparents were taken from their families at the age of 5 and forced into a boarding school such as this, the stories they told, and the pain and trauma they endured isn't something they would have been able to imagine and lie about. That generational trauma gets passed down among generations. I know that first hand.

    • @guiltybastard7859
      @guiltybastard7859 4 года назад +41

      This is the Canadian equivalent of "Holocaust Denial" that is often seen in the USA.

    • @asbisi
      @asbisi 3 года назад +12

      So sorry to hear that. Horrible crime, HORRIBLE!

    • @FromTheHealingWellSomatics
      @FromTheHealingWellSomatics 3 года назад +12

      I am so sorry

    • @asbisi
      @asbisi 3 года назад +9

      @Leon Cardinal I agree. History is important - and it is most likely NOT written in books. This is the kind of history which some would like to sweep under the carpet.

    • @dianestafford6968
      @dianestafford6968 3 года назад +6

      I am so sorry that your grandparents went through that hell

  • @VicvicW
    @VicvicW 6 лет назад +862

    The comments on this are disgusting.
    This man is opening up about the horrific abuses he suffered, and all you people can say is that he’s lying?
    They’re not accusing you lot of doing it.

    • @taramain2166
      @taramain2166 6 лет назад +19

      True

    • @2sigma4u-i8p
      @2sigma4u-i8p 5 лет назад +8

      yes.

    • @benardhall61
      @benardhall61 5 лет назад +43

      We should learn from the history to avoid it from happening again. I wonder if this history is being tought at school.

    • @user-ci1kz1cc6t
      @user-ci1kz1cc6t 5 лет назад +20

      @@benardhall61 Of course not.

    • @happyclam1266
      @happyclam1266 5 лет назад +64

      They accuse him because of their insatiable need to be the oppressor rather than the oppressed. They are nothing, and nothing new.

  • @matthew78917
    @matthew78917 3 года назад +302

    those people that tortured the helpless children looked like they came straight out of a horror movie

    • @Robin-bk2lm
      @Robin-bk2lm 3 года назад +12

      They were ignorant savages. The priests.

    • @barrymchugh4490
      @barrymchugh4490 3 года назад +7

      Black eyes no soul

    • @juliamontour434
      @juliamontour434 3 года назад +2

      It was a time in Indian policy to destroy them( us), only let the ones who convert and adapt to Christine ways to survive.

    • @blader45bc
      @blader45bc 3 года назад

      Tortured? Lol.

    • @blader45bc
      @blader45bc 3 года назад

      @juul cat Ya, you were there, right? Lmao. The stories get crazier by the minute.

  • @SharonJackson13
    @SharonJackson13 5 лет назад +399

    How he can still smile while he tells the stories, is beyond me! What a brave, brave man.

    • @levcimac
      @levcimac 5 лет назад +65

      sometimes people smile when recollecting distressful memories because they have become disassociated with the emotional aspect of those memories... it a coping-mechanism innate to the brain to deal with trauma

    • @MsSusanCunningham
      @MsSusanCunningham 3 года назад +50

      Sometimes our smile is the only thing keeping us from breaking down in tears, I do the same thing.

    • @denisev9392
      @denisev9392 3 года назад +28

      trauma smile

    • @valleyheartxo
      @valleyheartxo 3 года назад +30

      I’ve done it too discussing trauma in my past. It’s a way to relieve the tension you are feeling when discussing something traumatic and prevent you from breaking down.

    • @theopoint-o5141
      @theopoint-o5141 3 года назад +1

      Lol

  • @artsmart
    @artsmart 3 года назад +71

    "I'm fine thank-you." The sadness in this man's face and voice sums up this story perfectly.

    • @PyrusFlameborn
      @PyrusFlameborn 3 года назад +9

      @Bite Me he laughs because otherwise he'd cry. It's a coping mechanism of the brain fo disassociate with the trauma.

  • @kellycampbell8709
    @kellycampbell8709 5 лет назад +133

    Heartbreaking. This man and so many have suffered so much.

  • @Penny-bt4gc
    @Penny-bt4gc 3 года назад +347

    It’s horrific that so many of these children were to taken from their homes to be brutalized by priests and nuns. Parents never knowing what happened to their children. The survivors losing their culture and language of their people. The Catholic and Anglican churches need to pay for these horrors inflicted on innocent children. The government also needs to be held accountable for allowing this atrocity.

    • @ccalcote9125
      @ccalcote9125 3 года назад +13

      Well said!!

    • @nickchemist3722
      @nickchemist3722 3 года назад +18

      As guilty as the church is and all of this government need to be held accountable as well. Both the church and government share blame yet they’re trying to shift the blame onto each other

    • @solar0wind
      @solar0wind 3 года назад +12

      A good move from the pope would be to excommunicate the priests and nuns involved. For believing Catholics (so not me lol) that would send a strong signal. But that's probably not gonna happen unfortunately.

    • @gb4771
      @gb4771 3 года назад +5

      Pope will never excommunicate them. He will say that God is love and forgiving. But in other hand if others are doing bad things, they will go to hell and suffer forever….

    • @solar0wind
      @solar0wind 3 года назад +1

      @@gb4771 Yeah, you're probably right... Still, I have some hope that he will do the right thing🙃

  • @jasonelliot6320
    @jasonelliot6320 3 года назад +84

    We need to stop referring to these horrific places as “schools”. School for me was a wholesome, enjoyable, learning environment. These were despicable conversion camps. I can’t believe that they existed until 1997 in this country…. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know… every government during this time in my opinion is accountable along with the Catholic and other churches who participated in these atrocities. Those who committed these crimes should be held to account

    • @devinfraser9795
      @devinfraser9795 3 года назад +2

      They were schools alright , for the satanic Roman Catholic CURCH !!!

    • @meahdahlgren5875
      @meahdahlgren5875 10 месяцев назад

      Will it is sad but if we did not then some places are going to do it again

  • @amandavickery7669
    @amandavickery7669 3 года назад +259

    My mother is a st.Anne’s survivor and she too told me about the electric chair.

    • @kellys3411
      @kellys3411 3 года назад +31

      I'm so sorry for all she went through 🙏💜.

    • @bhavana.intuitivehealer
      @bhavana.intuitivehealer 3 года назад +27

      I hope your mother & your family have found peace & healing 🙏🏽💗

    • @bonniehay
      @bonniehay 3 года назад +19

      I'm so sorry. This is all so heart breaking. It was so wrong and should never ever have happened.

    • @buysell3181
      @buysell3181 3 года назад +12

      So terrible , I have no clue how People can be so cruel and cold .

    • @1001myplaylist
      @1001myplaylist 3 года назад +3

      Poor baby😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @alicegoldenvalley
    @alicegoldenvalley 3 года назад +73

    I am glad that he has the opportunity to be heard. Never stop speaking the truth sir.

  • @csth42
    @csth42 6 лет назад +362

    Horrific! I can not imagine the terror of those poor children went through. How do humans treat each other in this manner.

    • @zeotuk1.051
      @zeotuk1.051 5 лет назад +9

      Indians were not considered humans

    • @garydolphin1991
      @garydolphin1991 5 лет назад +8

      humans? not all humans act this way , only the "civilized" ones.

    • @mariejohnson4381
      @mariejohnson4381 3 года назад +6

      Because something in them doesn't ring human to me.

    • @dominoes127
      @dominoes127 3 года назад +9

      start a religion, that’s how..

    • @zeljkospoljar8237
      @zeljkospoljar8237 3 года назад +7

      Oh my friend there is no bigger beast and monsters then what we humans are to each other. I'm from former yugoslavia so thrust me I know what I'm talking about!!!

  • @elderguy
    @elderguy 5 лет назад +83

    Thank you for taking the time to tell us your story. I never knew the history of the residential schools until the last few years and find it a sad tale. I cannot imagine how it was.May you have peace in the rest of your life.

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

    • @meahdahlgren5875
      @meahdahlgren5875 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrSlimshady649sad but true

  • @pinoruggiero1810
    @pinoruggiero1810 3 года назад +80

    I am embarrassed that these horrors happened in Canada and under the guise of Catholic school… as human beings, when will learn to protect our most vulnerable and simply be good to each other

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

    • @nicolecormier1139
      @nicolecormier1139 3 года назад +1

      I am embarrassed also that this has happened in Canada under the guise of the Catholic Church.
      The Church did not do this alone. The Church did this under the authority and direction of the Crown.

    • @WendyAchatz
      @WendyAchatz 3 года назад

      It’s more than embarrassing it’s stomach turning, heart breaking. Make me sick to think what that maniac child molesters did for decades to those little children.

  • @bbaer5442
    @bbaer5442 3 года назад +472

    The Catholic Church has done so much damage in the world …

    • @yhz2K
      @yhz2K 3 года назад +18

      indeed

    • @bvo3766
      @bvo3766 3 года назад +39

      Imagine what we don’t know.

    • @thecook8964
      @thecook8964 3 года назад +24

      See Ireland, and the treatment of children of unwed mothers in Catholic "homes." Mass burials 😭

    • @saulquarian2643
      @saulquarian2643 3 года назад +3

      @@bvo3766 exactly, it's worse

    • @bsbs5005
      @bsbs5005 3 года назад +8

      Absolutely right. So many innocent people suffered because of catholic priest and their church.

  • @raynemichelle2996
    @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +668

    If Hell exists, those nuns and priests are there right now.

    • @pierre-rose7783
      @pierre-rose7783 3 года назад +12

      For sure !

    • @BeeRich33
      @BeeRich33 3 года назад +9

      Seems you're part of the problem. You believe there is a god and hell. That's hilarious. Maybe if you pray a lot, all this will erase itself.

    • @raynemichelle2996
      @raynemichelle2996 3 года назад +75

      @@BeeRich33 What part of "if hell existed" didn't you understand? Lol. Reading comprehension not your strong suit, eh. No worries.

    • @stazz6028
      @stazz6028 3 года назад +14

      @@BeeRich33 Damn get wrecked.

    • @lisawhite8718
      @lisawhite8718 3 года назад +16

      @@BeeRich33 Your @ is BeeRich... Worship of money and material perhaps? "part of the problem" mirrors your self perceptions and reflects your very "problem"/dysfunction back at you. Just my casual observation. Have a great day

  • @muffyfromlegal
    @muffyfromlegal 5 лет назад +51

    Sending peace, might, joy and love to all who endured this suffering.

  • @kristyp2585
    @kristyp2585 3 года назад +154

    215 children were just found in Kamloops BC. Buried in an unmarked mass grave on old school property. They are all telling the truth!

    • @JeffyD58
      @JeffyD58 3 года назад +5

      Yet they haven't even dug up 1 body yet and claim they have known about it for a month. Just another push for money

    • @beaRz03
      @beaRz03 3 года назад +30

      @@JeffyD58 you need to educate yourself. Or perhaps learn to be less ignorant as a person .

    • @justcallmerichard7596
      @justcallmerichard7596 3 года назад +4

      Considering they were trying to convert them you would think they would give those children a Christian burial.

    • @humvee2800
      @humvee2800 3 года назад +3

      Its called late 1800s mate. Kids died of disease all the time. There was some 3 major pandemics

    • @misterman9523
      @misterman9523 3 года назад +16

      @@humvee2800
      That doesn't change anything. Those children were forcefully dragged into an environment filled with contagious diseases for which they had no immunity. Murder by virus is still murder.

  • @annabellasarafaraone4147
    @annabellasarafaraone4147 3 года назад +64

    What is even more horrendous is how the Government is adamantly refusing to prosecute those monstrous-misfit perpetrators!, did the Government at the time know???, and sanction it???

    • @MIZZwalkerz
      @MIZZwalkerz 3 года назад +1

      Yes

    • @bandits1613
      @bandits1613 3 года назад +3

      Yeah it was the governments idea to do all of this

    • @christy9766
      @christy9766 3 года назад +2

      JUSTINS DAD SANCTIONED IT WHILE IN OFFICE ....

  • @tony8074
    @tony8074 3 года назад +189

    The Catholic Church should never ever be allowed to have access to children ever again. I’m so sorry this was done to these children. I do care about you brother, very much so.

    • @mj9765
      @mj9765 3 года назад +6

      I dont know how or why Canadian govt funds catho-lick schools, let alone banning them
      Only catho-licks are allowed to teach there!!

    • @Flo1918
      @Flo1918 3 года назад +6

      @@mj9765
      I am so appalled at what we are finding out..my parents lived with the Cree people for a while...they absolutely loved them and cried when they spoke of them
      We had to be baptized young but my parents hated that religion...just didn't want to talk about it and we had to not speak of them..😪

    • @cassandro9445
      @cassandro9445 3 года назад +3

      Nor any other religion.

    • @gargwinvinesnake6961
      @gargwinvinesnake6961 3 года назад +1

      Catholic schooling is still funded by the government in Alberta and Saskatchewan

    • @WendyAchatz
      @WendyAchatz 3 года назад +1

      The nasty Catholic Church should be abolished in Canada.

  • @IPlusOneAcademy
    @IPlusOneAcademy 6 лет назад +67

    Amazing man. How could you keep it together all these years? Amazing...no money is worth this suffering....

  • @tyrocyr
    @tyrocyr 3 года назад +40

    What those children went through is literally something you go through in a nightmare.. 💔

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад +1

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

  • @jeffbarwell5103
    @jeffbarwell5103 3 года назад +124

    Horrific. The so called caregivers of these children were monsters.

    • @AStri-zg5xc
      @AStri-zg5xc 3 года назад +3

      They often are

    • @kimtaxxxx
      @kimtaxxxx 3 года назад +2

      THEY FOLLOWED THE TOP GUYS RULES

    • @kellys3411
      @kellys3411 3 года назад +2

      @@kimtaxxxx that's no excuse. Had one spoken up there may have been no bodies recovered or at least less.

    • @Robin-bk2lm
      @Robin-bk2lm 3 года назад

      Savages.

    • @10dennis10
      @10dennis10 3 года назад

      @@kellys3411 Had one spoken up they would have been ostracized, excommunicated and thrown out in to a frigid winter storm.

  • @ekaterinarosee
    @ekaterinarosee 5 лет назад +35

    Thank you for speaking up and sharing these memories. Heartbreaking, but they need to be heard

  • @pa1060
    @pa1060 3 года назад +94

    I could never will never question someone's integrity regarding such a statement. I can only listen and just imagine such a horrific experience

    • @pa1060
      @pa1060 3 года назад +1

      I would agree in some circumstances most definitely. Questioning ones integrity is what we do to understand or decide if something is liable or accurate.

    • @pa1060
      @pa1060 3 года назад +1

      @Richard Dixon I would hope so

    • @yankeewithnobrim226
      @yankeewithnobrim226 3 года назад

      @Richard Dixon true, but in the case of St. Anne’s evidence and testimony has most definitely been gathered and the crimes there have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

  • @jeromerezdtfout9424
    @jeromerezdtfout9424 5 лет назад +120

    Native Americans stayed strong and we still are

  • @danielleriverin3117
    @danielleriverin3117 3 года назад +36

    Sending healing blessings of Love toward the survivors of residential schools, A'HO!

  • @MsSusanCunningham
    @MsSusanCunningham 3 года назад +20

    You are a strong brave survivor Mr. Metatawabin, thank you for telling your story. I hope you have found love and happiness in your life, you deserve all the best life has to offer!!

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад +1

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

  • @tannerc900
    @tannerc900 Год назад +2

    The fact this man can smile and laugh is very inspiring. I could listen to him talk for hours. He seems like such a honest and gentle soul despite all these hardships.

  • @mattjonas5682
    @mattjonas5682 3 года назад +22

    The church didn’t do this alone, they had the blessing of the government.

    • @WendyAchatz
      @WendyAchatz 3 года назад +1

      Both should be sued

    • @silentknight7078
      @silentknight7078 Год назад

      Protestant churches as well did this and the government too. They are not clean either. They try to blame the Catholic church alone and that's not honest.

  • @rilleygriffin
    @rilleygriffin 3 года назад +12

    💔 sending prayers and love to the survivors of these schools & their families. nothing will ever reconcile it.

  • @TheMAPmovies
    @TheMAPmovies 5 лет назад +33

    Heartbreaking but we need to know our history . Thank you for sharing these stories .

  • @Daniel-jv1ku
    @Daniel-jv1ku 3 года назад +33

    "You don't even answer. You know they don't care."

  • @elaine-li7wt
    @elaine-li7wt 3 года назад +6

    Dear sir, It is a gift that you kept your language.I am so sorry you had to experience any of that. you are beautiful and i love you.

  • @joetuktyyuktuk8635
    @joetuktyyuktuk8635 3 года назад +82

    Who builds a "school" with graveyards? Stop kidding yourself, these weren't schools these were prisons or internment camps... nothing less.

    • @defeatedink0544
      @defeatedink0544 3 года назад +9

      True. The residential school system was the North American holocaust

    • @jojojohnston1906
      @jojojohnston1906 3 года назад +2

      A school opened in 1900 during a massive world tuberculosis epidemic has a graveyard.

  • @jaymoon5765
    @jaymoon5765 3 года назад +11

    He is so right - there is no way to reconcile any of this.

  • @seanjohnkotris4981
    @seanjohnkotris4981 3 года назад +28

    Years later 215 children found in mass graves

    • @laurafedora5385
      @laurafedora5385 3 года назад +6

      It’s so sick and so unbelievably sad.
      The last residential school closed in 1996! That is very recent history.

    • @lindagibson744
      @lindagibson744 3 года назад +1

      Wicked!!!

    • @2musketeers966
      @2musketeers966 3 года назад +1

      @@lindagibson744 uhhh

  • @bumfit5491
    @bumfit5491 3 года назад +37

    When I went to catholic school they called that a “good catholic upbringing” ! By suffering now you earn your heaven ! The more you suffer the closer to god you’ll be ! Soo sick ,so medieval !

    • @Dark_Force_Of_Wishes
      @Dark_Force_Of_Wishes 2 года назад +1

      The Victims Will Go To Heaven And The Abusers Will Go To Hell, What's Wrong With That?

    • @bumfit5491
      @bumfit5491 2 года назад

      You play into there hands with the all will be reckoned in the next life ,BS ! Let’s have justice in this life and compensation for victims … lots of both …..

    • @ems901
      @ems901 5 месяцев назад

      Yep and a lot of them think that way. And that’s absolutely not the teachings of Christ. You don’t need to suffer like him to go to heaven.

    • @ems901
      @ems901 5 месяцев назад

      That’s how mother Theresa did business too

  • @elizabethlucas5450
    @elizabethlucas5450 4 года назад +10

    So many suffered. I'm so sorry. I'm learning about this to better understand history and to share other's experiences.

  • @nicholassweazey987
    @nicholassweazey987 4 года назад +21

    thank you sir for sharing 1 % of your painful past. i am sorry you experienced hell on earth. God bless you

    • @toneystevens5023
      @toneystevens5023 3 года назад

      People who believe in gods are the root of the problem.

  • @thedude1982
    @thedude1982 3 года назад +30

    My grandparents were also taken to these "schools". I couldn't imagine the horrors that they went through 😥😡

    • @streetwise-ray5499
      @streetwise-ray5499 3 года назад +2

      God bless your Grandparents and you.

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

  • @superrrrliz
    @superrrrliz 5 лет назад +71

    The video and the photos made me tear up. Look at how they punished them and forced them to conform. Cut all their hair, forbade them from speaking their language, and abused them :(

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад +2

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

    • @betsyvanek9275
      @betsyvanek9275 3 года назад +3

      Not only forbade but beaten for speaking their language. Please do not assume by my last name...who and what I am.

    • @superrrrliz
      @superrrrliz 3 года назад +1

      @@betsyvanek9275 exactly!!! My great grandma was lucky to survive and then married and reproduced with a frenchmen who became an alcoholic and further harmed their family and wouldn't let her or my papa speak it either even at home because he became so paranoid. Now every day I am trying to pick up the pieces and learn the language on my own.

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      @@betsyvanek9275 you were a nun

  • @goldenglowladore3842
    @goldenglowladore3842 3 года назад +5

    Thank you Chris for sharing and teaching us what was happening. Abuses...
    Brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers pulled apart...not knowing how to to care because... You are loved. I love you. You are important.

  • @samantha7384
    @samantha7384 3 года назад +3

    My god. What an amazing man. He can sit there telling his story and he still had a smile on his face. I hope that his life turned around for the better because he and along with all the other children at that time deserve to have so much more and so much better. My heart breaks for those children and what they had to endure.

  • @miso4thesoul
    @miso4thesoul 4 года назад +69

    What a strong man. I am absolutely disgusted by Canada's past just as America's past as well. The intent of these schools from the beginning was dehumanizing, disrespectful and against free will. Respect the Cree.

    • @theopoint-o5141
      @theopoint-o5141 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @LLandS18
      @LLandS18 3 года назад +1

      @@theopoint-o5141 grow up troll. What a sad life you live.

    • @theopoint-o5141
      @theopoint-o5141 3 года назад

      @@hybmnzz2658 lol

    • @paul-jp1rb
      @paul-jp1rb 3 года назад +3

      my great grandmother witnessed a live firing squad at hers, they had about 10 gunmen and they would shoot the kids who ran away infront of the other children. you actually had a higher chance of dying in a residential school than in the first word war

    • @theopoint-o5141
      @theopoint-o5141 3 года назад

      @@paul-jp1rb lol nice one

  • @انسانعلىالارض-غ1ق
    @انسانعلىالارض-غ1ق 3 года назад +17

    People who were doing this to them are with ill hearts.

  • @yasr6616
    @yasr6616 3 года назад +4

    I can’t stop crying… omg omg… I’m so sorry for all those beautiful kids… sending you all my love…

  • @lyndabenjamin4300
    @lyndabenjamin4300 3 года назад +9

    My heart goes out to the people who have now become adults but have carried in their hearts and soul the sorrow and brokenness of theses terrors and brutalities that were experienced in the hands of those who stole the innocence and lives of such precious people. I have worked with the Inuit for over 15 years in Nunavik as a teacher and I have heard first hand the stories and shared in their pain as well while they were in residential schools as well. I don’t think there is anyway this crime can be paid for, and the nuns and priests who perpetrated such crimes should be held accountable if they are still alive and corporately the Catholic Church has to be held accountable and the government of Canada has to be held accountable for the crimes that were allowed to be inflicted on innocent aboriginal children, who now are adults suffering with so many emotional and mental and societal problems.

  • @RaeZoladawn777
    @RaeZoladawn777 3 года назад +7

    I am a second-generation residential school,
    survivor generational trauma passed on
    I lived close to m Gmas heart
    my Dad went thru Hell he was Fostered
    into the Bush taken off Reserve at the age of 5
    GMA was beautiful
    I love my Heritage I am Metis
    Gma Uncles and Aunties all went to the schools ....I lived in the town where the last one was shut down

  • @leslcyann9162
    @leslcyann9162 6 лет назад +26

    If someone EVER says “if it’s true why would they talk about it”(I hope nobody would say or think that) THEY ARE SHARING TO SPILL WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, BEECH. sorry I’m angry

  • @jchakma5625
    @jchakma5625 3 года назад +7

    I have no words to say , just feeling sad and so much respect for him !
    My prayers for him and I pray for all the survivors and those who never made it to home !
    🙏🙏🙏

  • @bryanatwood8587
    @bryanatwood8587 3 года назад

    Chris - thank you so much for sharing your story. The impact your words have is hopefully bigger than you think. No one should have to experience the atrocities you and others experienced with the residential school program. I can never understand the impact, but I will listen to every story I can. Sending you a virtual hug.

  • @liquiddetergent2881
    @liquiddetergent2881 3 года назад +5

    Such horrendous acts. This guys smile gives me a good feeling about him. Poor souls♥️.

  • @Loyt717
    @Loyt717 3 года назад +55

    The Pope should say something about these incidents, shouldn’t he?

    • @redtankgirl5
      @redtankgirl5 3 года назад +7

      Some people can’t understand why some people hate that church so much. I know I do and will never forgive that institution. The pope needs and owes far more than he and his predecessors have been willing to do.

    • @Mig-nr8hc
      @Mig-nr8hc 3 года назад +6

      I wouldn’t want no apology from that 😈

    • @baratong267
      @baratong267 3 года назад +4

      why would he?he lose nothing..these blind followers of him are all over the world donating tax free money

    • @laurafedora5385
      @laurafedora5385 3 года назад +5

      Yes. The Vatican is also withholding records from the investigation.

    • @linato1855
      @linato1855 3 года назад +1

      He has…I read about it yesterday….

  • @joyceedmondson7335
    @joyceedmondson7335 3 года назад +3

    He spoke his truth and what it was like. I appreciate the rawness and yet he still smiles. I know what it's like growing up being an aboriginal I got through it but what these people and my mom went through is terrible. People need to hear these stories it helps heal them.. I feel this man's pain. You can see it in his face. Lets hope we can find some ways to help heal these survivors...

  • @joanjenny926
    @joanjenny926 3 года назад +2

    So well said..... I am sorry for your pain. Trauma is uncomfortable for most people to empathize with.

  • @deneecegriswold8264
    @deneecegriswold8264 3 года назад +14

    Electric chair for kids? How inhumane!

    • @markharley6733
      @markharley6733 3 года назад +5

      I'm asking a similar question: What in this world is an electric chair doing in a residential school in Canada?

    • @bobkozalov8821
      @bobkozalov8821 3 года назад +3

      @@markharley6733 Electric therapy was common back in those times. Mental health patients were treated with electric therapy as common practice and it was believed it had results. Bad kids acting up, how do you cure their bad behaviour? It what was happening and what believed was helpful.

    • @granmabern5283
      @granmabern5283 3 года назад +1

      Bob Kozalov also he said they would sit on it for fun to see how long they could stand it, and he said no when asked if he had seen it used as punishment.

    • @bobkozalov8821
      @bobkozalov8821 3 года назад +1

      @@granmabern5283 Yes, I realize that. Does that mean some kids were trying it on their own or was an adult supervisor there letting them see how it feels for the fun of it? He never seen it used as punishment, I think it was the kind of thing that was used for therapy. They had straps for punishments in those days. I have a friend that was taught by Nuns in the 60's and he said the Nuns knew how to use straps very well. You can bet those Nuns grew up under the strap as punishment, pretty sure all people in those times did. I remember the pain. Now a days if parents touch their own kids in anger they get told to F off. Straps should be sold in quantity in all Canadian Tire stores. With good sales on them. Two for one.

    • @granmabern5283
      @granmabern5283 3 года назад

      Bob Kozalov He says right in the video that the boys would try it out. Electricity was thought to be therapeutic and that chair could have been part of their medical program. The boys sat on it while another boy cranked it...a far cry from the executioners chair!!!

  • @jaybryant4752
    @jaybryant4752 3 года назад +1

    It's sad to hear about stories like this. I truly feel lucky. I had a hard childhood. I went to Luther Wood in Waterloo 30 years ago. Great staff there. I am eternally grateful for the people who gave me the help and guidance I needed at that time in my life.

  • @hunterplischke5089
    @hunterplischke5089 3 года назад +9

    This is just brutal. Now the government cares about our health and safety...

    • @ginakelley749
      @ginakelley749 3 года назад +2

      Never trust the government - any government!

  • @kirkjones9827
    @kirkjones9827 3 года назад +23

    Laugh on the outside, crying on the inside.

  • @michellehartridge4860
    @michellehartridge4860 6 лет назад +15

    So damn sad!😟

  • @2010zac1
    @2010zac1 3 года назад +9

    Make no mistake these terrorists who committed these atrocities are still among us and they'll face no punishment

  • @goesfastandfar
    @goesfastandfar 3 года назад +22

    Reconciliation is only a word-a politician's word- that has no real value. To think that these schools were run by supposed holy people who were being very unholy to other human beings.
    It's not the first time that the Roman Catholic church has been guilty of sinning against God's Will. These were innocent children.....

    • @paalders
      @paalders 3 года назад +10

      The Catholic Church has no moral authority on anything these days. They have a lot to answer for & should be made to pay taxes since we can't abolish them.

    • @toneystevens5023
      @toneystevens5023 3 года назад

      If you believe in the man in the sky you are part of the problem.

    • @goesfastandfar
      @goesfastandfar 3 года назад

      @@toneystevens5023 And if you don't, you're an even bigger problem.
      God gets blamed for everything; especially misunderstanding His Will, just like the RC's.

  • @francespetryshyn439
    @francespetryshyn439 3 года назад +1

    OMG I wish so badly I could hug this man! Telling him I'm sorry just would not be enough, the only thing I can promise is to listen and learn the truth, but I really am so damned sorry. I didn't even hear about Residential Schools until 1975, why did I not learn about this in school???

    • @knightrider693
      @knightrider693 3 года назад

      Well they were still some up and running then..

  • @joannefroehlich8165
    @joannefroehlich8165 4 года назад +19

    Lets all rally around and drain the Catholic church for money to help rebuild for them. Help them heal through rebuilding houses, fields of foid, culture centers for them, wood machines for making musical instruments, art and theatre centers, dance and choregraphy fir the youth to create new healing dances and ceremonies, elderly centers for ancestral teachings..writing and story telling centers for all ages, health and welness centers..

    • @annelowry357
      @annelowry357 3 года назад +4

      Not that I don’t agree with you but let’s start with clean water!

  • @cathyabrahamse1929
    @cathyabrahamse1929 3 года назад +19

    No that's not christainty for you.
    The hid behind it for there sick sick ways.
    God is love.

    • @Blobbert_8
      @Blobbert_8 3 года назад +2

      Very sick people! They probably chose that profession to perpetuate their sadistic tendencies

    • @allisontaylor6229
      @allisontaylor6229 3 года назад +2

      @C Yeah, as a Canadian I agree. I am still in high school and one of the biggest things they taught us in history class is how respected the clergy was back in the day, and that poor families would often send their children to be raised in the Church (as a nun or a priest) because it was such a honor (and quite honestly gave them power) rather than for religious purposes

    • @Blobbert_8
      @Blobbert_8 3 года назад +1

      @@allisontaylor6229 yes! Oh wow I had no idea about that! Thanks for telling me this, it makes it so much worst! I know to this day the clergy are somewhat respected but it sounds like back then there were no checks and balances!

  • @Tim-57
    @Tim-57 3 года назад

    Much respect and admiration to you sir.

  • @creewoman1790
    @creewoman1790 3 года назад +2

    My late Dad went there. He never really shared with me personally what happened to him there. I knew it was a horrible place that pained him. He did mention times his younger siblings got punished and physically abused over nothing. I overheard him once telling another survivor that ‘they tried making a woman out of him’. The other survivor wanted to sue them at that time and wanted him to do it too. He wanted no part but he did pursue the basic claim years later. I don’t think my Dad was put in the infamous electric chair but I know my Auntie was. She recently passed away and I know she’s in a better place

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

    • @meahdahlgren5875
      @meahdahlgren5875 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@MrSlimshady649sad

  • @Quiet_One
    @Quiet_One 4 года назад +8

    White Canadian here, just learning about the residential schools so please excuse my uninformed questions and comments. I've read about how Indigenous children were taken away from their parents which some were right? But I watched a CBC Doc with a woman named Alice Littledeer, and even though she spent several years in residential school, she send her 11 children there. Idk if anyone can answer but why did she send her kids to that school knowing how bad it was? Were there other Indigenous parents who sent their children to these schools knowing they would be abused?

    • @margaretjohnston8055
      @margaretjohnston8055 4 года назад +14

      They didn't have a choice.

    • @violetapihtakisikawin6935
      @violetapihtakisikawin6935 4 года назад +14

      Hey, it's always okay to ask questions! It's how we learn, thank you for trying to learn more about what happened.
      Correct. the children were taken from their parents, and they were not able to do anything about it. Because if they refused/hid/fought for their children they would be taken to jail and the kids would be taken anyways, it was never a choice they could make.
      I've watched that documentary too, and I didn't understand either. But it could have been the same situation in which she had no choice, for my grandmother she wasn't given a choice either when it came to my dad (he is deaf and there was no school that he could go to except the residential school). My other aunties and uncles didn't have to go because they could hear and so they just went to the schools in the town close by.
      Growing up my grandmother never told her mother about what happened at the residence, because she knew there was nothing she could have done about it and it would only cause worry and grief everytime the Indian agent came to take the children.
      Hopefully I answered some questions and if you have any others just let me know! 🙂

    • @ellaella5537
      @ellaella5537 3 года назад +2

      @@violetapihtakisikawin6935 thank you, it’s so horrible.

    • @evtashhayden
      @evtashhayden 3 года назад +4

      Someone probably already answered this but, my grandpa told me that they’d be put in jail if they didn’t let their children attend the schools

    • @you_a_noob8295
      @you_a_noob8295 3 года назад +4

      Forced by rcmp to go

  • @xalonetv6399
    @xalonetv6399 3 года назад

    Absolutely horrific story. I hope these kids that went through this and survived were able to raise big families so they get all the love in the world!

  • @lchan983
    @lchan983 3 года назад +2

    I can’t believe how long these schools open up for and how come nobody heard about it , this is my first time

  • @marcus_mayhem
    @marcus_mayhem 3 года назад +7

    We got the strap at St Mary's in mission bc. Locked in the dark boiler room for 8 hrs a day.

  • @Kaitlyn24992
    @Kaitlyn24992 3 года назад +4

    Electric chair! 😳That's so messed up! Those poor children 😔so sad

  • @alicepyne-jahneke8042
    @alicepyne-jahneke8042 3 года назад +1

    This is beyond sad, the atrocities that were put upon these children, to be beat with a cat of nine tails, at least those scars heal, but the emotional scars, even though this man smiles, it doesn't sound like the emotional scars have, or ever will, heal.
    One of my brother married a girl who belongs to the Picuris Indian tribe. They met in Burbank California where we all lived, but they moved to the reservation to raise their family. It's a beautiful place, and Thankfully nothing like this ever happened to her people. This story makes me want to hug my nieces and my nephew.

  • @kariw5341
    @kariw5341 Год назад

    Absolutely heartbreaking, cant even begin to imagine , the fear the pain, the loneliness these children experienced I'm at a loss for words . The people responsible for their suffering must all be brought to justice , pure evil disgusting adults,

  • @sharleneginther2653
    @sharleneginther2653 3 года назад +3

    breaks my heart that any HUMAN can treat another human with such disrespect, faith in humanity LOST

  • @cdelorenzo6773
    @cdelorenzo6773 3 года назад +7

    God bless him and all of the other poor children! 🙏

  • @jeorgyboop5063
    @jeorgyboop5063 3 года назад +12

    These tortures performed under the guise of godliness. W T H. 😥

  • @dudleydogbrown1
    @dudleydogbrown1 3 года назад +6

    Heads need to roll over this because the authorities new about this and looked the other way, imagine they looked the other way, what kind of human being looks the other way?

  • @francinelax2991
    @francinelax2991 3 года назад +9

    These nuns and priests have commit crimes, some should come forward and clear their conscience

    • @patrickhin4301
      @patrickhin4301 3 года назад

      celebacy is the cause of all this! These priests and nuns were frustrated, it is natural human behaviour
      to procreate . How on earth can you love i.e God without seeing or touching!

  • @JW-mv2bp
    @JW-mv2bp 3 года назад +11

    This needs to be taught in school

    • @kaidencrip7565
      @kaidencrip7565 3 года назад +1

      It is, only in reservations tho. Its sad

  • @seanriley6152
    @seanriley6152 5 лет назад +10

    And they tell us get over it , and you wonder why most dislike Mooniyash heartless people . You will never get whats in our spirit , WE ARE STILL HERE #ANICHINABE

    • @pinlight97
      @pinlight97 3 года назад +2

      No one should tell you to get over it. I've been told that for my own personal loss--single generation, just to me--and I think it is beyond disrespectful. I am a Settler and you are right; we can only glimpse what's in your spirit.

  • @CarlaVanWalsum8
    @CarlaVanWalsum8 3 года назад +6

    A heartbraking story...

  • @koopredsky7143
    @koopredsky7143 6 лет назад +12

    my dad was is it and my grandma and my auntie ☹️

    • @vanessamilton8235
      @vanessamilton8235 4 года назад

      I’m so sorry, sending love to you and your family ❤️

    • @laurenspicer940
      @laurenspicer940 3 года назад

      I'm so sorry that this happened to your family.

  • @kaml.7341
    @kaml.7341 3 года назад +14

    First, they stole their lands; then, they robbed them of their cultures. Some of us laughed because these happened so long ago, but history repeats itself...

    • @arrebiy
      @arrebiy 3 года назад +1

      Say it louder to the people in the back👏

  • @CarolynnMarkey
    @CarolynnMarkey 3 года назад +1

    if there is anything I have learned from listening to these stories...it is to listen to your kids. listen to them when they run away. don't make them go back

  • @Dolleemixtures
    @Dolleemixtures 3 года назад

    This is so hard to watch. I can't imagine what it must face been like to experience

  • @maggie5043
    @maggie5043 3 года назад +4

    We give thumbs up to support please think twice before giving thumps down. My heart truly goes out to all the families.

  • @normahamilton2985
    @normahamilton2985 3 года назад

    This is extremely horrific. So sad.

  • @simone54
    @simone54 3 года назад +3

    This made my stomach literally sick

    • @MrSlimshady649
      @MrSlimshady649 3 года назад

      The BC MCFD are still doing this. Just ask Emily Ann Melzer of the Kelowna MCFD. She still does this to children, the RCMP help her. This hasent gone away.

  • @thefranchize3445
    @thefranchize3445 3 года назад +1

    3 years after this video (2021)they discover a mass grave with 315 children on school grounds. It keeps getting worse.

  • @brandylee119
    @brandylee119 3 года назад +10

    I wish they would look at all the schools like this. I’m sure they would find more lost children.

    • @Traypeats
      @Traypeats 3 года назад +2

      they found 715 more 😥

    • @brandylee119
      @brandylee119 3 года назад

      @@Traypeats 😢 I hate that I’m right.

  • @j.b.4614
    @j.b.4614 3 года назад +11

    The child represents GodCreator's
    love and trust in us.
    Protect each child no matter what!

    • @kristine6996
      @kristine6996 3 года назад +1

      True, well said. Thank you. 🤍

  • @hijazifamily8532
    @hijazifamily8532 3 года назад

    This is heartbreaking

  • @marycornejo492
    @marycornejo492 3 года назад

    So Sad 😭 He is a Brave Man to tell people what really went on.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @ericasmithwoods4263
    @ericasmithwoods4263 6 лет назад +30

    Long hair represents bravery

  • @dakettawilson3021
    @dakettawilson3021 5 лет назад +5

    This is sooo sad

  • @corvidmurder66
    @corvidmurder66 3 года назад

    I am so sorry for everything you experienced and I feel bad for the pain, mental and all other kinds you went through. I pray you get some reparation and most of all that you find peace!

  • @rocksteady4me
    @rocksteady4me 5 лет назад +7

    I would hug him.

  • @valerieminervaa.7773
    @valerieminervaa.7773 3 года назад +2

    I'm a Catholic, and first of all I'm so sorry for what my Church has done. I'm sorry the Pope wouldn't apologize. I'm so sorry for all of those horrible nuns and priests that mistreated the children.
    I get mad when the Pope doesn't want to apologize. Those residential schools are run by the Catholic Church which is our church and it annoys me because we could at least say sorry for what our priests and nuns have done to those poor children. I am also upset bcs I see hate towards my church. I even saw a person converting to another religion bcs of this situation. I just wish the Pope would apologize and do something (maybe give money or something?) and everything will hopefully get better.

  • @royalenfieldgirlnicole5935
    @royalenfieldgirlnicole5935 3 года назад +1

    Precious human 💛💚