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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2017
- Canada's Dark Secret | Featured Documentary
In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant "Canadian" culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or forcibly removed from their homes
Residential schools were part of an extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.
Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, was "picked up" and taken to the school along with four other children as they walked along a public road to visit his grandmother.
I'm ashamed to say I'm Canadian because of what my government has done.
Ron Short, former RCMP officer
"They didn't put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that," he explains. "It was in the routine of the place.
"You didn't speak anything but English. You went to the white man's school. You went to the white man's church. You wore white mens' clothes. All those were built in. It wasn't a classroom-type lecture. It was ingrained in the system."
In 2008, the Canadian government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which finally enabled survivors to give their testimonies on life in the residential schools. Abuse - mental, physical and sexual - was rife and, although research and statistics vary, it is estimated that 6,000 children died in these schools. Some evidence puts the casualties at three times that number.
After its formation, the TRC travelled around Canada for six years, gathering testimony from thousands who bore witness to the tragedies of the residential schools. Numerous "Aboriginal healing" programmes were put in place to help those affected to move on with their lives.
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These schools have had a long lasting impact on us Natives. My grandmother was a residential school survivor... She became an alcoholic and lost her children to foster care for some time including my own mother. These schools instilled in my grandmother a very rigid strict militaristic type of bearing. This was because of how she was treated in the school. She in turn raised her children the same way the school raised her Fear, violent discipline. My mother was raised this way and in turn she raised me the same way. As a young man i joined the Army. I found it to be very easy for me. The yelling did not bother me. Their threats seemed empty and hollow to me. It wasnt until I was much older and my grandmother and mother had passed away that I realized that the residential school was the root cause of my family dysfunction and addiction. It was the reason the military was easy for me.... They stripped my people of their own ways of raising their children and families and replaced it with trauma, violence, and fear... It continues to haunt Native families to this day. The addiction and violent dysfunction that can be traced back to these schools and the violent assimilation of an entire generation of our children. This is why when someone says to me "well i didnt do any of this my ancestors did it not me and its not happening now so why does it matter?" I think... But it does matter... It has effected even me a child born in 1983. This history is not so far away for me. Its just sad all of it. I hope one day we can all truly love one another as human beings and prosper...
my grandmother is a survivor, she chose with her own free will once she had children to not be a jerk though she was raised by jerks in the system. its all about choice, your grandmother made the choice to mistreat her kids.
@@sweethindi I dont think you fully grasp the impact that trauma can have on a person. That generational trauma from genocide and assimilation is evidenced across every reservation from Canada down to Mexico. Do you think we were just all naturally drunken indians who sold all our land and just couldnt control ourselves? Or were we made to become that way? To say it was free will or that it was a choice she made to become an alcoholic and raise her kids violently is an attempt to try to simplify and justify atrocities including those schools that broke Natives down and spit them out with trauma, addiction, and dysfunction. Sure there are people who are very strong willed who adapt to such things easily however to say it is just a matter of free will totally disregards the debilitating effects colonialism and assimilation had on entire generations of Natives including my grandmother and mother. When you see rampant addiction, suicide, and overall poor health in Native populations across the U.S and Canada that is not because people exercised poor choice and free will... Its because they were made that way intentionally. Everything from their spiritual, to mental, to physical health every facet of their well being was targeted for destruction. From the cradle to the grave... Generation after generation taking on more and more horrors. Passing that trauma down... Fwiw my grandmother did die a sober woman. She was eventually able to come to terms with her past and live a peaceful life until she passed from cancer... Her life was very hard for her. I truly felt bad for the things she had endured in her life...I just hate that it seems people will try to write off the horrors the people were forced to endure and then say "well they chose to be victims" I would love to see how well a person can suck up and drive on after seeing people massacred. Being displaced out of their homes. Struck with numerous bouts of lethal diseases. Get kidnapped and thrown in a school and be raped, beaten, and tortured for being a Indian.... Then see how many come out of all that trauma and horror to live productive lives with no issues whatsoever.... I think most people even today would be lucky to even survive that harsh a life let alone live it out peacefully. You would be smart not to allow yourself to be another victim... That stuff manifests in a lot of way. Like thinking like your oppressor. Thats very sad when that happens.
@@GrizReaper Not to be rude but I'm wondering if chrissy H is of age. To post such a heartless and naive post as she has, is unbelievable. I hope your 2nd post helped her understand the severity of what's happened and the impact.
My heart goes out to you, your family and all who have endured such pain and the impact on their lives and their family lives.
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Thank you for sharing your story and I wish you and your family all the best in life. I'm also very sorry for everything these "liberators" did to your people. I'm not Canadian but I have a question. Did your native languages survive all these atrocities? Did any languages or indigenous tribes disappear or are at the risk of disappearing in Canada? Can you fluently speak your mother tongue now? I'm a multi cultural fanatic. I love languages and cultural preservation. Thanks for your response
I’m nêhiyaw ( plains Cree ), and I am strong, my Father who was forced to attend Duck lake residential school along with his brothers and sisters, they experienced horrific abuse of many kinds, most of them ran away along w my father, the sad stories and the effects still live within them today, but they are healing and still speak the Cree language, we are Plains Cree in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, I am also learning our culture and ways of life, and what it is to be a Plains Cree. I pray for everyone, all people of the world.
ya, most people survived. Lol.
So? Do you think we should be kind to liars, thieves, and scam artists? I'm sorry for those who had a hard time at school but the whole story has turned into a giant propaganda exercise designed to extract further billions from Canadian taxpayers. Time to move on.
Martin Macdonald you telll people to move on but your on almost all residential school video
Thank you. Let me know if I have missed any. The mid-range taxpayer in Canada pays anywhere from $500 to $1000 per year to reserves. Why? When that goes away and fn's become self-supporting like the rest of us then I will move on. This scam has been going on for way to long. It benefits nobody but lawyers and activists.
Martin Macdonald if you were in a residential school you would probably change your mind you don’t even know the pain people have been though and it’s hard to forget about the past sometimes
I'm glad now that in recent days, this dirty little secret is all over the news. These were concentration camps for indigenous children. I first came across a documentary years ago about this, which I think was called, "We Were Children". I watched it several times. As a Canadian and a human being, I was totally disgusted and sickened ! I'm glad that everything that was hidden is now being revealed.
I had no idea of any of this, I just happened upon it one day on RUclips when looking about Canada! I cried and cried. Felt shame, disgust, anger, sadness. All of that and yet none of it compares to what these children/people went through.
Concentration Camps!
@James Henry Smith It certainly seemed like a genocide of the indigenous children here in Canada. A few weeks ago the remains of 215 children at a residential school in British Columbia Canada were discovered. Today they released that 751 unmarked graves were discovered at a former residential school in Saskatchewan Canada. All the former residential schools across Canada are now having their grounds searched for unmarked graves. My soul cries for these children.
Yeah everything is revealed, but the Canadian government tries togive money to the families the suffer this tragedy, instead to take the priests and nuns to the jail,and eliminate the use of the bible, when the Prime Minister take position.
@@franklingarcia7072 I totally agree with you. These nuns and priests should be in prison ! Religion should not be forced on anyone.
The same thing happened in Australia to our indigenous people. It is scary how similar this is to our history in Australia. To this day the indigenous people of my country are disadvantaged and suffering.
"Rabbit proof fence". What a sicknening film. To think Australians fought the Nazis and yet had a similar ideology all along.
it happened in Norway too, children taken from their parents and put into residental schools
@@Em-vq7mu there's native Norwegians?
@@ntia3832 well yes and no, the Sami ppl are indigenous, but native to Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. You could say they are native to northern Norway bc they lived in Norway at the same time the norse did. We pushed them off their land and tried to strip them of their culture and treated them horribly.
And the UN keeps quiet about these atrocities but pays so much significance to lesser ones depending on where they were committed and by who. Talk of double standards
I came here after the news that 215 dead children were discovered on those residential school. It so sad to see how this people suffered. "suffered just for being who you are"....
Me too. I have always known about the schools and stuff but came her me after the news to learn more. Its so sad.
oddly enough i watched this a couple days before the news hit. now i send this link to anyone who is confused about what's going on. as a native myself i personally never knew the extreme horrors they went through, i was taught briefly about the rape, the beatings, but i didn't know to what extent. i knew children died but i never thought it could be thousands undocumented ones.
@@joohoneybun The scope of it is mind boggling.
@@coffeehugger it breaks my heart for all those families. it makes me wonder if my mum's father went through this, he left her when she was born after her mother died giving birth to her so unfortunately we don't know anything about our culture. she was raised by her mother's side of the family - her mother was white. so luckily my mother didn't have to go through residential school (she's 61), but to know that the people she's worked with and even my own father went through this breaks my heart.
I'm here after hearing this news too. I never knew about residential schools or what these people went through. Now I'm trying to educate myself and listen to their stories.
Every Canadian should be made to learn this. Every Canadian citizen needs to know what went on in our country.
Alison Kohne exactly but somehow it’s still unknown to lots of Canadians which is sad because like you said every Canadian should learn about this
Your Canadian government doesn't give a s*** about indigenous people they're more interested in helping the refugees from Syria Africa Mexico
@@danhill2543 oh and don't forget about corporate welfare. It's embarrassing crimes
Alison Kohne yes.they do they should not be keeping this from parents or children whether like it they not.
@@Flow86767, NOT *"a bit* of *dark* history." It goes *so much deeper,* how they are now treated included. Plus, what about the past *enslavement of humans of African ancestry* and the legacy of intergenerational trauma, and *how inhumanely* the *disabled, impoverished, elderly, people of African ancestry,* and *those who are a little different from the average conventional, conservative, passive-aggressive Canadians are treated since?* Please, *don't believe* the *never accurate or deserved hype* about Canada and Canadians.
The way these survivors describe their flashbacks, and how it affects them psychologically, left me speechless. That's a detailed image of what living with trauma is like. It is very generous of them to be so vulnerable and share their experiences.
It deeply effects everyone. You can feel the pain of all the screaming spirits. You have no idea of what you have done.
Yeah especially the men about the S/A 😩 you know how proud men are pertaining to the subject
If there are any living workers for any of the schools regardless how old they are should be held accountable. I believe the last one closed in 1996
Yes, the last one closed in 1996.
True criminals rarely pay a price. They should fry the Catholic church in court. The church owns a lot of land!!!
How about the Monarchy? Apparently there's a newspaper article from British Columbia they took 10 children back to England 🇬🇧 I was wondering are they going to give our People an answer to this question? I would like to know wouldn't you?
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
I am only 31 years old (update my age sence originally posting 2 years ago...) have lived in Canada my entire life, and not ONCE in school, was this discussed. I learned about it through my own life experiences and through conversations with others.
Such an embarrassment. This should have NEVER happened.
it’s sad how they’re just hiding everything that happened
We learned a bit but it’s a embarrassment
I had a class literally called “Native History 12”
I'm pretty sure it's not part of the curriculum but my 8th grade teacher showed us this.
I’m 59; I only learned about the Indian Residential Schools from my Church. The United Church of Canada was one of the partners of the government that operated schools, and we were involved in the inquiry into their operations. The purpose of the schools wasn’t right in the first place; the abuse only added to the original Cultural Genocidal purpose of those schools, which is set out in the Indian Act. Abuse and neglect was inevitable, but that only added to the original language destruction and cultural abuse of those schools.
The fact that they refuse to even look for the bodies shows you that the government and churches are not really repentant of this. They need to do much more than they are doing.
They bodies need to recover,
Theres mass graves there covering up!
The Roman Catholic Organization is not a part of the Church of God Almighty.
They are not about love, and will never be.
They are bent on doing the worst form of evil and wickedness in this world!!!
They will be judged by The Great Almighty God for all their atrocities!!!
They are still bad to the native population.
Because the native population
Pure racism on top of torture! How cruel to take little kids away from their families to abuse them and kill them! Demonic monsters!😡😡😡
No kidding who is the real savages! Child molesters and child abusers. And they get called a fuckn hero?! Wow!!! They are MONSTERS
@@usmanjaved4746 sad but true the french weren't to blame this time !
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
Well americans didn't did better to be honest with you in 2022 as i speak right now they dont pay taxes on everything they can hunt all year long if they want they have a bunch of privilege we dont have as a engish or french canadian and im fine with it
@@usmanjaved4746 ??? Wrong country dumbass
I watched over 8 hours of documentaries, and survivor stories in light of the recent finding of 215 dead children (Just one of the many such horrors). Canada is not Canada without the indigenous, their richness of culture, spirituality, wisdom, close family bonds, and their stories. As Canadians it is a moral obligation to know our history, and to internalize these stories, and teach it to our children. It's been heart breaking watching these. May the indigenous people heal, prosper, and may this culture never die.
Can you recommend some of these documentaries?
@@iloveyoumomdad "Is the Crown at War with Us" Alanis Obamsawin. Its on youtube, check out her other documentaries as well, she's internationally recognized...everywhere but Canada.
the Cree need to call the Navajo nation in light of all those graves, and say "we're gonna need some infrastructure help" as they arm up and then proceed to take huge chunks of Alberta, Manitoba, Sas-k. Let Justin Trudeau deploy the troops to go to war with the natives. I doubt he wants that bloodshed.
I grew up Coast Salish in Port Alberni with my white mom during the 69's scoop & always connected with my family but felt the sadness etc. Now my dad left me our history and my ancestors are Chief's Freezie, Albany's & Peter's. My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhees and won back the right's for the Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. First to have open heart surgery in Canada. My GGGrandfather Captain James Douglas Warren came to explore the Salish Seas in 1858. He married my Grandmother a Chief's daughter from the Haida Gwaii and was interned to Kuper Island during the Spanish Flu. While he was picking up body's around Vancouver Island in his Steamships. He even owned the famous SSBEAVER that sunk at Prospect Point in 1888. My pals in Port told me about the Priest, Black Pete the Boilerman. 500 sets of Canadian Villas Wood Furniture in the attic for over 50 yrs sold for 20 each. And amazing my dad made me write on pics etc when I was 16 but didn't care. We just had a Say No on Sat ,& 26th in Victoria to take Canada back.
@@nickiewilson9134 That was interesting. One thing I always notice is the people who argue most about statues and such things usually have NO idea of what their family history is, and maybe thats what they are afraid of.
It's crazy that there is a Qatari owned media network that is raising more awareness about residential schools than the Canadian educational system
Yeah , they talk about natives Canadians but they can't talk about their crimes in the past in north Africa (how they try to arabize native north Africans using religion ) that's insane
no kidding!!!
ALREADY coverd u piece of tripe
Its quite typical to point so as to avoid their own
Canadians will conveniently forget the 100 years of abuse of young Indians by the Canadian Gov. Instead they will impose their trash "we have rule of law here" on China's Xinjiang.
The nuns look scary AF. My mum was taught by nuns in Ireland she said they were the most spiteful evil people she ever encountered. I hope all of them got their karma
I agree.
I also agree with ur mum
My mum went to convent school in the Caribbean and told me the same
The Sisters Of St.Joseph an Irish order from Pennsylvania. Cruel beyond wordd.
See, spiteful and evil, sounds like a satan foller to me , not a christian.
Every Engish settler colony (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.) has an eerily similar history when it comes to how they treated their natives.
That’s because it was planned that way.
… nothing to do with English. Every single colony ever. English or not.
The crown was behind it
Wrong. There are 93 countries with indigenous communities with these schools - Mexico, China, India, Philippines, and Thailand but they paid zero in compensation.
Only these countries paid compensation: the United States $1 Billion, Canada $4 Billion, Australia $3 Billion, New Zealand $1 Billion,
I cry watching this and I just can't even begin to imagine how we can make it up to the indigenous peoples. This Canada Day, I am spending the day hearing their stories and reading their stories. It won't help them, I know, but at least they will be heard by one more person. As a nation, we need a day to mourn with them and honour them.
They murdered a whole generation , my grandma hid me and told me , dont you tell any one your indian. Ididnt know what she ment my grandma was Shawnee , and im proud of it. !!
@JockStrap Wilnott-Ex Navy Walrus I doubt they hate all white people
@JockStrap Wilnott-Ex Navy Walrus I'm sorry, But she didn't say I hate all white poeple, ,,but actually it's white poeple will hate everyone from a nation if just some of them something bad to white, ,,,
Yes,. '' Melody Delgrado '' A similar event Happened here in Lillooet, & other B.C.areas.
Many years back I spoke with Elders whose relatives survived this holocaust.
I'm not a racist by any means, I only speak of truths.
And it is true The New white People did want to Eradicate many first nation's populations in North America.
It is a fact that they did give the Natives here diseased blankets from hospitals to take back to infect the whole band, indiscriminately killing men women and children.
In 1863. At the hight of the Smallpox pandemic, Lillooet B.C. did, in fact, have a Smallpox hospital making the procuring of Tainted Blankets readily available.
A third to two-thirds of the Aboriginal population was gone almost overnight.
wow thats pretty hard to hide and ridiculous thinking.Why does no one speak about the ones who were thankful for the education received ..they are out there.Btw you must be adopted if a whole generation were murdered stop the lies.
@@jerrilee2 you're one of the grateful? Good for you. If not, stop conveying your own bullshit in the name of others. Let people speak for themselves!
＂When they first arrived, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said to us: close your eyes and pray.
So we closed our eyes and prayed. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land.
＂。 ----- A tribal chieftain ".
We say the same thing in Kenya
Plain evil.
Mother Earth, Father Sky, and the Universe always brings justice....even if that is after their soul is gone from this planet. This is just so heartbreaking.
I am sad for anyone who got tricked by someone holding a bible. It is the biggest scam going. Please consider that Jesus is a Jew of the tribe of Judah. He never asked anyone to give him money. He healed the sick freely. He died to pay for sins. His life and death and resurrection were prophesied over 1,000yrs before he was born. He is the restorer, not the destroyer. Lastly, Jesus always exposed the evil leaders and that is why they hated him and had him killed not knowing that he would be raised from the dead! Ha! Ha! on them.
@@anonymouslyshady7661 those who did those evil acts need to take responsibility, I agree with you.
My country indeed has a dark past over the treatment of our indigenous people, nothing will heal this deep scar. What will help, just give them back their rights and freedoms so we all can co-exist as a nation? This year I will not fly or acknowledge the Canadian Flag on Canada Day as a personal protest of our mistreatment of our indigenous People of Canada. I believe what happened in Kamloops is shameful.
I'm with you 💯. I will not acknowledge July 1st this year in protest
I agree it’s shameful.. but Canada Day is about Canada as a whole, as it exists now and not just then. Aren’t there things worth celebrating about our country?
Canada no longer has a name.
@@dvsdawl no and if you’re white you have no say in this lol shut up
@@dvsdawl I had an awesome canada day celebration. I hope you did too. Happy belated Canada 🇨🇦 day
No justice, no peace. Each body must be investigated. Every missing child, ever, matters. An injustice for anyone is an injustice to everyone because we are ALL connected.
Zero human remains found at any of these schools in Canada or USA
Remains of 215 Indigenous children discovered at a former residential school in province of British Columbia this week.
That’s why I’m here dude, from Uk an heard 250 kids found. Makes you wonder where those poor kids went with the Queen of England those times!
My God.... 💔
Why I’m here too. Heartbreaking 💔
I live in B.C and all the schools (I think most) here have a t-shirt to color. It has indigenous art on it and has the number 215 on it. We had a moment of silence and did much more...
Now they found another 100 more investigation going on rip to all those kids and I feel bad for the familys
People, 50 years later and it still hurts that she is still crying.
you dont understand, the last school closed in 1996 which means the last generation went were all born in the 80's
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my grandma's in pain all the time and drinks to forget i guess
Must be PTSD. They saw other children suffer which is painful. I can't imagine those people who worked there how they loose heart and compassion for others especially innocent children.
@@whiteninja5546 probably
This hurts me.. Hurts me so much i couldn't help my people back then hurts soo much to know the whole 50 states were covered wit nothing but indigenous people now we are only 5% of the population But WE STILL ARE HERE !! 🧡🧡🧡
There are more natives now then there was before whites came.
Everyone knows suffering of native Americans and native Australians is unimaginable
how many more of their sins are still not discovered , thinking of those horrors gives chills
I'm Canadian born , went through the entire school system and not once was this ever mentioned at all, when I finished high school I learned about it through research and friends
Proud nations like Canada who were in the same time subjugating, colonial powers are not open to the truth, the dark side of their history. Only when people stand up for the truth, for their human rights, recognition happens.
I Am 70 never heard last 10 years.
@@rudolfkraffzick642 Worse, they'll try to justify it and blame the victims and then turn around and point fingers to another country who did similar things in order to deflect, as if that would make things ok.
Same here. The most we were taught about were the reservations. John A. MacDonald was a hero according to our history textbooks. It makes me sick that we were never taught this. At least Germany never tries to hide what they did.
Ditto. They hid it well. I had no idea this was the real history of the nation-building of Canada.
I'm a 12-year old Ojibway from Eabametoong First Nation. My grandpa is a residential school survivor he said they thrown the dead children outside
Your poor grandpa was abused emotionally, physically and spiritually and I'm sorry he experienced that. I'm shocked by what I've just watched. Love and healing to you all.
Ojibway are in the Sudbury area?
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One day i hope you wont be lonely - but you have never been and never will be a loser my friend
@@43pence48 amen, so sorry for all the pain and suffering you had to endure, may God heal you totally mind body and spirit.
@22:45 her talking about thinking children died and were buried at the school but believing theyll never know the truth and that the government lied about it happening....then seeing what is going on this very moment in our society and the discoveries coming to light...I have loved and been proud of this country for my entire life but this...this is unforgivable.
The officer almost crying moved me so much....thank you sir for being one of the good people. My grandparents were in the schools.....ive always said im too white for the natives to native for the whites...its sad that my kids are still effected.
Same I've said the same exact thing to to white for the natives and to native for the whites
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
I'm close to sixty yrs old and I can remember it like yesterday when my Grandmother told me they tried to scrub off her color with some kind of hard brush then she would bleed. So many wrongs on so many levels! My name is Colleen Sanderson I am Cree and Saulteux.. It definitely has an effect on generation upon generation. I know too that there were mass burials of children found by the horrific schools.
Horrible and sickening
this is disgraceful....does anyone stop to think how all of us that are pinky white...we age our skin sitting out in the sun to turn our skin dark like all our other brothers and sisters with that beautiful dark tan color?? Why is there so much stupidity in the world today??
things have changed... move on. its been 60 years
Just like England done to every country round the world, most were burnt out,raped & killed then houses burned,then they built their own, dont go kidding yourself it only happened there,
@@fenianbhoy5285 it wasnt every country but it still wasnt right thank god the british empire has gone I'm not going to make excuse for the british behaviour but if you think about it they were conquered invaded by so many others like Roman empire saxons vikings ect it's not surprising it's a messed up nation
There should be a national day of remembrance
There should be a national day of justice - punishment - for these government people who are still alive, and the government period.
This should be a national day of giving these people millions of dollars for all that they suffered.
There should be a national day of dismantling these racist governments worldwide.
We have Orange Shirt Day ,,, but that seems more like stirring awareness than the warranted remembrance. I agree we need a day.
that is an excellent idea :-)
In canada June 21st National Indigenous Peoples day.
Not saying it's enough but...it's there.
@@ramranchcowboy4408 yes I know .but there should be more awareness . This in every definition was a genocide. People today are still feeling the affects .
Soooo many victims that suffered at these schools and when they tell their stories you can hear how much it hurt to go thru all the abuse and pain and just feeling so alone. I hate that this happened to them. Their parents and their whole families too must've suffered unbearably. These victims deserve to be heard and they all deserve justice.
I am N Hawaiian, this brought me to tears. So sad, how dare they thought they were better than Indigenous.
I knew a lady from Alert Bay on Vancouver Island, who is a survivor of the residential school system. The RCMP came onto the reserve, ripped her away from her family and put her in a residential school, where she remained for 10+ years. She once told me about how she was beaten with a wooden paddle until she could barely walk just for speaking her native language. The residential school system and horrendous mistreatment of aboriginal people is a shameful stain on Canada's history!
So? She got her thousands of dollars. Why are you crying? Do you want money, too?
@@tomfrancis9747 what a cold blooded reply. Can I offer you money for beating you. You should know human being can't live without dignity. Apparently, you only need money.
@@tomfrancis9747 yeah let's erase your history and culture but here's some money
Tom Francis It baffles me how some people act. Thank God I was born normal.
They did to Irish people too beathe native Irish language outof us starved us murders us common denominator here the monarchy..
Not only was their land stolen, but their children were taken away! My heart is broken 😞 such injustice! I can’t even find the words in my heart! Innocent children 🥲💔
The children weren't just stolen, they were tortured, starved, died of diseases, were beaten to death. As a disguise they told them they'd educate the children, which was a lie. They didn't really bother with education. The goal was to eradicate those pagans.
I've seen many survivor posts and stories of their own parents dropping them off. I would have to say it's not fact that "govt" stole children's when tons dumped their own kids off
@@CookiesCritterCare Attendance at residential schools was compulsary, so yes, they were in fact stolen by the government, regardless as to whether or not the parents had to drop the children off themselves.
And indigenous children are still being taken away from their families. It hasn't ended.
@@CookiesCritterCare They were legally required to send their kids. It was the law. If they didn't comply, they would be fined or imprisoned, and the cops would go to their homes and take the children by force. Did you fully watch the video you're commenting on?
I’m a newcomer of Canada. I’ve read lots of adventures stories about native Americans. I used to thought of Nazis killing is the cruel try of ethenic cleansing.. This is much more than that. I’m stand with Indigenious people and share their grievances.
....Are you high? This is nowhere near as bad as what the nazis did. What a cracked out statement
This happened in 30 of the 93 countries with indigenous people. Only the White Western countries paid any restitution. Canada $4 Billion, USA $1 Billion, New Zealand $1 Billion
China, Russia, Mexico, and India all had over a hundred of these schools but paid zero compensation.
"As I watched the entire documentary about the residential school in the past, my heart was ripped apart for those poor and broken victims: the children and their families. I pray that wherever they are now, they receive the justice and peace they deserve, especially for those lost souls who were never heard. Thank you to those who had the courage to speak the truth, for it is a history that will never be forgotten and should never be repeated. Today's government should learn to consider humanity and the consequences before implementing any programs or projects."
How on earth did these places operate for so long without someone shutting them down? Poor children.
L A U R E N • H they would try to make it seem like a saving grace. Look at these poor uneducated children and make the schools look like the only option. It’s sad but really it was the people just strait up not knowing what was really going on behind closed doors. It’s heart breaking.
'Anglos caused most of the world's problems' (David Cameron, British Prime Minister, 2010-2016). Anglo caused centuries-long notorious global Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization, World War I & World War II, and the lists go on. Besides, among the five main Anglo nations; Britain, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all but Britain is looted from others. Speaking of Canada, how come Canada, a most harmonious nation with a mere 37 million population, is the largest trading partner of USA which has 330 millions? Main exports of Canada, second largest land nation on earth, are land-based natural mineral resources. Less than half a million indigenous Native Canadian people remain most marginalized and poorest racial and ethnic group on their own beloved motherland. A sad truth.
@@thykingdomcome7238 You said; "'Anglos caused most of the world's problems' (David Cameron, British Prime Minister, 2010-2016). Anglo caused centuries-long notorious global Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization, World War I & World War II, and the lists go on. Besides, among the five main Anglo nations; Britain, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all but Britain is looted from others. Speaking of Canada, how come Canada, a most harmonious nation with a mere 37 million population, is the largest trading partner of USA which has 330 millions? Main exports of Canada, second largest land nation on earth, are land-based natural mineral resources. Less than half a million indigenous Native Canadian people remain most marginalized and poorest racial and ethnic group on their own beloved motherland. A sad truth."
I said; "Truth hurts, isn't it?"
@@thykingdomcome7238 'Anglos caused most of the world's problems' ~ David Cameron.
Mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native Americans population at 15 million, while European population, in Continents of America + Europe, at a staggering 'ONE BILLION'! A sad truth.
Ole Fella Sources? Also that’s not the historical census, as it’s still up in the air as the true number of people, given the lack of proper documentation of those killed.
Native History of Month should be taught in school of all over the world.
good that
Yes… let’s start at home and to our children….spread it …..
You are correct.
I wouldn’t call my grandmother a survivor, she went to that school. But died at the age of 42. 1 year after I was born. The impacts of this trauma was profound and devastating. She never had the chance to heal.
This is atrocious that they refer to those school as tragedies and don't call it for what it is - it is a hideous crime that was committed on the government level and everyone involved has to be held accountable.
This is hard to watch. I am legitimately In tears watching this . Heartbreaking . This is hard to watch .
It's traumatising. Equal to the Holocaust.
I was too. What a world.
Respect, Cherish and Guide each child in your life today.
Help them discover and develop their multiple talents.J2020
I know .. it’s taken me a week to get thru and only in segments. I felt an evil presence ... they killed GOD. They murdered innocent children over garbage ! Over something that will all dissolve in the law of the cosmos .... Hate hate nothing but hate crimes against humanity ... an atrocity against peaceful living peoples !!!!!
Their culture and heritage is so beautiful..its so sad to see it being so violently taken away.
It’s disgusting what both canada and the united states did to indegenious people from the beginning to today
@@kevin123456789994 What makes you say that
Jay Kar do you even know there culture
Jay Kar bro you think breadcrumbs and colonization is culture shut up
Biggest funny 100 I can’t tell if this is hate or love
My mother and my grandmother were sent to Indian Boarding Schools in Canada, my mother sent her daughter after she went because she felt it was normal, my grandma felt wrong and sinful for being indian. she wanted my mother to learn how to be white/assimilate. So so so so sad, no one realized how dangerous and bad this was to people to take their culture, their family, and strip them of all they hold dear, what a huge huge huge tragedy it is why I suffer from depression.
This documentary is a masterpiece. .. amazing and fascinating directing..it was heartbreaking and overwhelming documentary but it was very beautiful.
You kill a culture, you kill a people. I am glad that my beloved red brother's culture is strong & HAS survived! I love you, thank you!
Why did they want to kill their culture, it is such an uncivilised thing to do.
@@honeybunch5765 Because the white European folk saw their own culture as "civilized" and saw the Native culture as uncivilized. Unfortunately, they had it backwards.
@@73cidalia I think it's more about power, not civilization. Historically, when a culture invades, this is what happens - take the youth of the conquered people and indoctrinate them into the new culture. That way you don't have a warring faction among the conquered people that threatens the dominant culture. You have compliance and peace. It's cruel, it's damaging, the affects can last for generations. All modern cultures, not only western, still don't know how to blend humanely. This goes on still in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Acknowledging inhumanity is a start to the healing process, but I am most disappointed in how people continue in their Christian churches. Governments can change and grow, but religions don't.
My dad and his siblings were all taken and placed in a residential school. I knew he was in a residential school as a child but I haven’t really watched this before. I was brought up in foster in care from the time I was 3 along with my siblings. I understand a bit now the alcoholism my dad suffered along with many of my aunts and uncles are a result of the sexual, mental, physical and psychological abuse they suffered growing. I know my dad didn’t fail me, this honestly hurt the heart to watch.
I’m sorry for everything your family has gone through. It breaks my heart. I wish I knew how we could all come together to help with the healing and figure out what justice looks like.
I'm sorry to hear everything bad happened to you and your country. It's very heartbreaking I thought Canada is just a nice country. I can't see Canada the same way anymore. hugs from Philippines
Yes. I am so truly sorry. Of course how can one cope with this level of pain?
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It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
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No more thoughts and prayers! Action needed now! Justice!
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It’s not just Canadians it happened too lots of American natives went through this as well. My grand father went through this in the US.
indigenous Peoples were living in harmony with nature, the animals and themselves aaaall across North America, before it was divided into canada/usa/mexico thoughts and prayers of healing to and for all relations of this continent
indigenous Peoples were living in harmony with nature, the animals and themselves aaaall across North America, before it was divided into canada/usa/mexico thoughts and prayers of healing to and for all relations of this continent
It’s crazy how it’s the exact same story in EVERY colonialized, Western nation today..... Canada, The United States, Australia, South Africa.... wherever Europeans “settle”, the natives end up marginalized, oppressed, discriminated against, abused, and quite often suffer from extreme poverty, alcoholism and suicide. It’s a clear pattern here, folks! Now, we need to figure out how to even the score and make it right. I know that’s a lot easier said than done, but documentaries like this that inform the general public and bring these issues to the forefront are definitely a start.
How about radical islam. Go study up on the moors and the fall of the visigoths. The Armenians? The entire shitshow in the middle east?
Why not take a look at the Janissairies. That's something.
Oda Nobunaga and Hideyoshi were all in. Injin war comes to mind.
Three Kingdoms was all about this.
There is also the Islamic offenses against the African tribes.
Can you tell me the middle East has banned slavery?
Study up on some history before you throw your bigotry at people.
You should also study how islam spread around the world. Just saying.
@@danielchaput884 Classic case of whataboutism. How was she being bigoted? It seems like an observation, a true one at that. How were any of your examples relevant? Deflection does nothing useful. No one ever denied those things happened in those countries, but explain how those are relevant to this situation.
@@AP-vd9xc For one, there is a whole stripe of white nations in the East part of Europe that never colonized anybody, ever, but nobody knows that, because these nations didn't make the history. She needs to say "colonists" instead of "Europeans".
@@danielchaput884 deflection 101 doesn't make u less ignorant
Boy this is right up there with Auschwitz.
I cant believe this could ever happen and no one cared. Ripping children from their homes and family. To be "raised" by strangers. Without even so much as kind word or a hug. Breaks my heart into pieces.
Shame on you Canada.
In the same Evil spirit, as the Nazis!
This also happened in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. At least Canada, Australia, and New Zealand apologized for this immoral act. Oh, and there's also a movie called Rabbit-Proof Fence that tells the story of three Australian aboriginal children who were kidnapped from their family, but escaped back to their home.
i was thinking exactly the same
This documentary is a testament to the strength of an tire generation
See the handicap schools how they were treated.
Many other tragedies happen back in the ole days. Horrific
I have grandchildren and my heart breaks to hear about these children and the pain they went through. The pain the parents went through was so traumatic. Of course, we become free when we die and nothing matters anymore.
Thank you for telling us what happened. I'm still trying to understand the horror. 😭
racism can’t be understood
My heart is broken for these people and their families
same with the jews after ww2 but they moved on and look at them now...
@@danielx22 Yeah that was 75 years ago, the jews have slowly moved on. But sonny boy the last residential school has been closed about 24 years ago. Indigenous people are slowly moving on, so don't say move on to any victims, you just sound clueless
@@vlapratt1 they started doing well right away... and yes the best thing any self help book says is to stop playing a victim so you arent helping... leave this to people who know what they are talking about.
How can people be so awful. I love Native American - I feel their pain.
@@danielx22 ya but u only know someone is Jewish possibly by a last name. These indigenous ppl are apparently different from white settlers making it much more apparent and easy to discriminate against. Leave it up to the pros is basically what u said... pretty sure ppl have been abused by the professionals for all of life and u still dont see where that gets them.
The native people of the Philippines where I came from also suffered similar fate. Christianity was introduced to our ancestors, then one by one, the islands of the Philippines were taken by the Spaniards. In short, religion was used as a weapon, and whoever resisted became the enemy of the Catholic Church and the government. A lot of abuses by the Catholic priests back then were done to the natives including rape to women. The Philippines was colonized by Spain for 333 years, from 1565-1898, by the US from 1898-1946, and by the Japanese abruptly from 1942-1945. Colonization has its dark secrets probably experienced by any country around the world.
Same with the indigenous of Central America; the erasure of our culture continued through the civil wars in the 20th century and there is still heavy discrimination today. I agree, religion was used as a weapon and it’s sad trying to figure out roots when so much has been erased.
That was tough
The native people of the Philippines are the Igorot. Everyone else are settlers.
Look up 1964 Canadian Mawhawk institute. Witness sees the lizard taking kids. The lizard of england steals kids. My comments are being removed!!
I think all over the world Indigenous cultures were to be erased or forced to subservience. Black bodies, brown bodies, Asian, Indigenous bodies meant nothing to them. Conquer and eliminate was the racist's creed.
I literally could've been sent to a residential school at my age, and I'll be 42 in about 3 weeks. I was 16 when the last one closed, so I would've been in my sophomore or junior year of HS. I had no clue these were still in operation back then! My soul just feels heavy hearing these stories and knowing what happened in these places. May God heal all those still here, and bless the souls of those already crossed over.
This is heart breaking. My grandmother and her baby sister are the only two out of eight children. That didn't go to reservation school. Never registered with the bureau of Indian affairs. No one ever heard of the 6 missing children in my family from the Creek Indians from the Beaver clan under the given name of justice. Muskogee Oklahoma. It's not just Canada's guilt but màny other country's all under the Catholic Church and colonization. Shame 🤫🤫🤫
Get a DNA test
Colonialism has destroyed so much for so many. My heart aches for this injustice that our first nations peoples had to suffer. The financial compensation that people received through this injustice cannot begin to cover the damage that has been done to families and individuals.
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
Native Pride . My dad and my Kokum survived residential school .
Apache pride, Aries here also! There is so much not being told about Natives who lived in these lands before those imaginary lines that now are borders. So many stories so many people so much pain but SO MUCH PRIDE as well. Very pretty you are, take care.
Maybe start watching more educational content instead of mindless tana mongeau vids
Melody, I'm Irish decent and I also survived the horrible catholic occultists. I'm not getting any reparations however.
@Steve La Croix I understand plainly where this comes from and what it says , seen it happen to people also, but I truly don't think it is speaking in the same way on this, (I have thought about this long and hard), they Indian people were not haughty /prideful, I truly believe it is a humbleness of just being proud of who they were , not being arrogant , although there may have been some as all personalities vary but o rr all I don't believe they were in that way, and I have Cherokee from both sides of my family.
As of December 2021, there have been almost 8,000 bodies of indigenous children located, victims of residential schools in the US and Canada. This number is still growing.
Shocking. Disturbing. Disgraceful. I hope those victims find peace soon and may this never happen again. The government must answer for this crime against humanity!
Living in Canada but in history the teacher didn't give us all that information
I don't know where you went to school, but my Ontario public high school absolutely taught us about this. Like it was a whole section in our history class, plus it was part of book assignment in our english class.
when i was in elementary school in the Toronto District School Board, they taught us about some of the atrocities committed against indigenous people in grade 6. Not sure if they still cover it in grade 6, or if the curriculum has changed since then. This was in the year 2006. In high school in grade 10 they also had a book study reading assignment as well. They covered a lot of aspects about colonialism in English class in high school, in my experience.
@@amentrison2794 did they tell you about the "60s scoop"? Where again, the Canadian government abducted children placed them in various foster homes, to be abused in every possible manner, then gave the broken scarred children to unsuspecting white families?
Mitch Holder me? I’m 25. We never learned about the 60s scoop, just that disease was spread, alcohol was introduced to the aboriginal people, what were residential schools, etc. But im talking about Toronto curriculum so not sure about other parts of Canada
Same in Montreal ! I knew all this because of my parents . My parents always taught me about the truth of Canada history , he was surprised that when he was applying for his citizen that none of that was there .
To the 215 beautiful souls that we lost here in British Columbia, you are lost but never forgotten.
And now they’ve been found years later
Im American and know lots of Native Americans. I don't understand why people want everybody to be, dress, and think the same. I look at natives, and it's a beautiful thing. Keep your culture and language alive. I wouldn't want be in a world without you. Stay strong
Yes surely this was done because they just really hated how the natives dressed.
No buddy. It was done because the natives were savages who had no problem committing raids, mass killings, cultural culls, r*ping women of other natives and whites etc. Whites weren't perfect, but if you truly understood what was happening in this continent before whites came you would have a different tune. It wasn't uncommon to find mass graves of elder women and men who were killed by rival tribes. And guess what happened to the younger women?
Taken as "wives (s*x slaves) to rival tribes where their language and culture was taken away from them. Yet other natives = good and white man = bad in the minds of the ignorant. If whites were so bad natives wouldn't have kept making treaties with them. Whites brought horses, superior tech etc, and the bad things they did were things that were already happening on a much larger scale and in worse ways. I grew up thinking white people were evil as a kid, then I actually researched things and realized the truth, But it's completely accepted to hate whitey, so it's the safe stance to have. Taking personal responsibility is much harder it seems. Think about it. White people would not allow this way of thinking to even exist if they actually were what people (even other white people) paint them out to be. Whites by and large just wanted to make settlements and be left alone. Which is hard to do when natives are trying to raid you and steal women. Oh and to this day they still blame wendigos for women and children going missing from their camps. Yeah, surely that was wendigos and not men acting like the typical savages they are and killing/dumping the evidence of their crimes far away from the rest of the tribe. Not much changes, men still do this to this day. Of all races.
Natives also happily participated in enslaving blacks as well. People don't seem to understand things we see as crazy now were acceptable to most hundreds of years ago.
My Great Great Grandmother was a residential school survivor and they took her away to England and forced her to marry a white man but she ran away and found my Great Great Grandfather who was also a residential school survivor sometimes I think it's a good thing they both got taken to England because otherwise mg Great Grandmother, Nanny and potentially even my Mum could have been residential school victims.
Their are 2 films about this:
Where the spirit lives - Canadian Residential schools
Rabbit Proof Fence - Australian residential schools
Same thing was happening in Australia
Same thing happen in Hawaii
You may be right about Australia..However the truth and the horrors of what happened to the original inhabitants of the Americas or Canada are finally coming out..At least they lived to tell the story and was given land ect..Instead of being Annihilated of the face of the EARTH!!Research that! That's the dark secret the "Indys" tried desperately to not come out!
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How the heck can we be "given" land by you guys? We owned the land. We predate you, and we have lived here since. I have seen similar claims to yours being spouted off by white supremacist websites, and they have a racial incentive to get their facts all wrong. You know the white supremacists, they Aren't Racist, they're just Really Proud of their Race, just like everyone else, Right? Those guys are really twisted, by their belief systems and their 'facts'. Tanmay is right about Australia, and in New Zealand, the settlers gave the Aboriginals blankets laced with cyanide, while in North America, we got the blankets contaminated by smallpox. Colonists used whatever worked to kill off as many of the original people as they could. I personally know people who were made to sleep in beds next to deathly ill children so that they might hopefully die as well. Nuns still used biological warfare against us into the 1970's. The white supremacist websites are trying to say that Europeans predate the Native people here in North America and Native people killed them off. This belief is coming from some ancient remains found somewhere in the US that scientists believed looked like they had aryan features. DNA has since proven this belief to be false. We are as diverse over here as Europeans are diverse in Europe. Compare the northern European with the southern Europeans and they are very different. It's the same thing with us. My Inuit ancestors crossed the land bridge. The more southern Natives predate the land bridge Greatly.
Tanmay Bhakta American kill natives, Canadian and Australian are torture natives.
I have spent the last two weeks (since I decided to delete all my social media!) watching historic documentaries on RUclips. I cannot believe all the things I’ve learned that I never knew happened. If not for this documentary, I’d never have known anything about this in Canada! I’m continually shocked, disgusted, ashamed and broken by the history of humanity.
Doing the same thing👍
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
The other documentaries that show another side of the story were taken off.
How long did you make it without social media? Even tho this is social media..😂
This is horrific. 😭😭
I am a Northern Tutchone second generation survivor as my mother and her siblings are survivors of one of these "schools".
My generation were born into traumatized families and so we're subjected to Canada's child welfare system which came in to scoop up the kids of these survivors. This was the second wave of cultural genocide as alot of native children were adopted out to white families far from their homes. This was called the 60s scoop. I ended up in a group home. This system continues in Canada to this day.
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I came here after know about today news 29 may 2021 that in Canada school found more than 215 children buried..
so heartbreakin.
these western countries are blood handed and they gave lecture on human right to developing countries like india,pakistan.. double standard.
Thank you
I believe western countries should not get involved in other countries affairs period. Think of the Prime Directive in Star Trek.
So true.
@Slavic Melody Yes, many Westerners do admit the mistakes of their country. However, there are still a lot of nationalistic Westerners who are in denial and think that everyone should only learn the sanitized version of their nation's history.
50000 missing canadian children from these schools and still no answers #idlenomore
Ask your Queen what happened to them children
So, so awful... It makes my cry to think of it.
So far 56 morons agree with you. The victim culture is strong with this four and a half dozen.
Stop bringing up fake facts. 6,000 students went missing in total. NOT 50,000.
Records of dead and missing kids are sketchy. The numbers are probably close to the numbers of white kids who also died during this period. Many families of the era lost children.
Thank you for telling the truth about this terrible chapter of our history as a country. This should be shared with the future generations.
I grew up in Canada and had no idea why the Indians were so messed up. I judged them harshly because I did not understand. Now I cry. I was proud to be a Canadian. Now not so much. NEVER allow government to take away our freedom. It's happening today to all of us.
Saying you're ignorant would have been faster. But hey you watch one biased video on YT and think you understand how the world works now. If that's not ignorant I don't know what is.
Us First Nations still suffer... my baba he went to residential school and he is suffering, even by little memories of it.... lots of my babas and mama o’s went to residential school
@Johnny Santi is that the source of the suffering?
@Johnny Santi
You disgusting vile person that land your on is not your land it all belongs to the native people,
Erica Smith
Terrible what happened to your people the suffering white man done thieves no matter what they say the land belongs to your people , THIS world is not stable AMERCAI is going to fall the day of reckoning is near very near woe to the OPRESSERS wicked they won't go unpunished,
@Johnny Santi and why would she do that ? She lives in the 21st century just as you do.
@Johnny Santi Incas, Mayas, Aztecas were more advanced and richer than Europeans. They came to America because they were desperatly poor. Learn something.
Our teacher was talking about it and she said not to tell anyone because the principal said do not talk about the Residential School history of Canada but my teacher talked about it in secret.
Edit: (January 30 2021) Omg it's been 3 years since I wrote this...I forgot about this, haha. My previous school has actually come to a conclusion to teach this history about Residential Schools, after that teacher, a few others and 100 students rallied up in-support of adding it to the curriculum.
This is your principal, pls come to the office tomorrow morning at 8:30
it’s sad how they’re just hiding the truth of what happened in the past. sigh.
What a wonderful teacher
@who ever Like wise
That's a great teacher. My teacher showed us this video in class.
I'm glad that foreign media is covering this
No words can describe how disturbing and heartbreaking this is too hear. I can't believe that people could be so Evil and cruel. I am sorry that Native people suffered through such inhumane injustice.
You're right it is sad and I under the name of Jesus Christ. WTF ❓
My father in law was one of the few that escaped over and over again, he is my hero, his stories were wonderful
Thank god for the internet or no one still would know about this
Yes. I'm so glad we have the opportunity to learn about such terrible things
This has been front page news in Canada for many years. There was the Royal Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples in 1996. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015. Prime Minister Harper's apology to Residential School survivors in 2008. The Canadian government has paid out billions of dollars for claims and reparations.
Yes & no. My ppl always knew. No one would listen for so long. Ppl have been murdered for even speaking out. & its hard for our elders to talk about it to begin with.
God this is f****ing horrible. Been crying through the whole thing. My heart just breaks and aches for the indigenous children lost to time in this horrible place, and indeed for all people who were forced to be ashamed of who they are, and have their culture strangled out of them. Breaks my bones with rage.
This happened in 50 of the 93 countries with indigenous people. Only the White Western countries paid any restitution. China, Russia, Mexico, and India all had over a hundred of these schools but paid zero compensation.
God didn’t do this humans did.
Pretty sad when foreign news media had to film this
I'm so sorry this happened to your people. When I was young, I used to love following my mother to pick wild berries, and learn to fish also. Then twelve years of school. I wonder how many people would be able to live off the land, and how much less waste there would be, if people could teach their own children. Less pavement, more wild berries. Less hydroelectric dams, more fishing.
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Amen 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Go live off the land then, who is stopping you exactly? Oh right, no one. Hydroelectric dams have nothing to do with fishing, nor does their existence stop you from fishing. Electricity is why you're even talking right now. We both know you have zero intention of giving up all the benefits white people brought. Literally no one is stopping you from fishing or picking berries honey. Go for it.
My paternal great-grandpa was Ojibwa and he went to one of these schools, along with his siblings, as a young boy in the early 1920s. I was told that his fingers were crooked from having them broken repeatedly. Sadly, I never met him since he died in 1981, seven years before I was born. He never taught his kids about his heritage nor taught them the language or any of the customs. At least he was able to have a relatively good life later on. He met and married my great-grandma, who was the daughter of Danish immigrants, and the two produced my grandma and six other children. Great-grandpa owned a decent little farm in Manton, Michigan and he had a nice factory job as a tool and die maker (he told people that he was Italian) up until he got sick. He and great-grandma remained married until death parted them. I told that he was a tough but honorable man.
There wasn’t even residential school in the 1920
@@ermiinegiirl2464 Residential schools were established in 1890s so check your facts before saying anything.
@@ermiinegiirl2464 We can tell you watched it genius.
Wish there was something I could say, but after watching this am speechless in utter disbelief.
Lost our little cousin, Albert Lindsay. He was only eight. I just don't understand. I'm so ashamed of Canada.
"i don't remember the children names, but i remember their cries."
I am a proud first nation I live in regina, Sask, my grandparents are residential school survivors but have passed away but I know exactly what they went through they told me before they passed I'm 15 years old i hope my culture gets more recognition in the the mainstream community and I wish people would stop putting tags on my culture that were "savages" and that we live off welfare my dad works in a construction and makes a good amount of money but I wish my people would stop crimes cause they aren't making my culture any better they're just making our culture look worse
I hope you are doing well!
@@tekumedo442 I'm 16 now but i look at everything completely differently, & I'm way more understanding when it comes to my culture & crime stuff too. thank u...I hope you're doing well too
Oh my girl, you’re still young but aware....it’s hundreds of years of colonization and systemic racism and abuse that led to substance abuse and addiction which resulted in crime, poverty and vicious cycles. I was born in Regina, SK and raised in Vancouver BC. Education my girl is key to everything, stay in school and you young ones can change things for the better. I’m so Proud of young ladies like yourself ✊🏽❤️
yeah that's because of the generational trauma. it's unfortunate but it's not going to be an easy fix. like the one man in this documentary said, it's not going to happen in our lifetimes.
No one should ever judge why someone else is on welfare or why they have addiction problems or anything else, and they certainly shouldn't stereotype.
RIP to the 215 Natives. A change is gonna come.
yeah right nothing changed in 150 years. people are still just as racist today as there were then No change.
@@hadesdragon true but we all need to stand up and do something, inaction is a step backwards, history makes you want to fight back
thousands of bodies in usa, canada, australia, new zealand, thousands of bodies and tens of thousands of hurt souls...
way more than 215
Can't believe you guys a buying into this propaganda. CANADA is a great nation with a great history. This documentary was financed by enemies of western heritage. Go back to Syria or Iraq, see how you like it there, if you don't like Canada
At 58 learning the truth from what we were taught in school, Makes me so embarrassed of my Government and the Religion I was brought up in . Spent this day with my grandkids to watch these doc so the can learn the truth and What Truth and Reconciliation is truly about not what the Government is teaching in school . Remembering today all that suffered this Abuse. I saw who was the savage???? The Government and church organizations.
Beautiful poem ... words from the heart and soul 🙏😪💜 My tears, I cry with you 💦 You’re journey is held in recognition and light, your strength and choice to speak in greatest honor and gratitude. “I am ... we are”
So much unnecessary suffering going on around the world. Why humans want to inflict such pain on fellow humans is beyond me.
The Devil is behind all of this.
@@AJ-gz6qd Lizard of England and her family are. Look up Mawhawk institute 1964 witness to children being taken. My comments are being removed!!
Money and power
My great grandmother never told us any stories about her family or youth. Now, I understand. A whole side of my family was erased.
Watching this in 2021 after 1500 children’s bodies had been found, with ONLY three schools searched yet is sad. The body count is definitely definitely much higher than 6000.
I went to a Catholic grade school in the 60's and the Nuns were very repressed and angry, They would throw chalk at the students and pull their hair for simply not knowing the answer to a class test question. I'm a proud Atheist as a result!
Are You Going To Stop Believing The Earth Is Round Just Because Some Round Earthers Kill People?
I'm from Germany and it's kinda common knowledge over here, that the Governments of countries like the U.S.A., Canada, Australia etc. didn't tread the Natives of their countries well. But I'm really surprised how bad the Indigenous People of Canada are doing. Just got done watching a few documentaries about missing and/or murdered Native women here on RUclips and was really shocked! There's one thing I noticed in all of the documentaries though. It's clearly visible and audible that all of the Natives, no matter in which country they live, are traumatized due to all the bad things that happened to their ancestors, family members and themselves in the past and still happening today. A trauma doesn't heal over night and no apology on earth can undo the wrongdoing that has happened so far. The healing has to come from within each individual, if necessary with the help of Professionals (Therapists) and it'll take a generation or two or maybe more until the remaining Indigenous people will be strong again. It was the same over here in Germany after WWII. It took at least 2 Generations until the wounds the horror of the war left, healed. Even though there are still scars and it will never be forgotten, the current generation of adults doesn't feel an overall shame for what happend over 70 yrs ago. People aren't stocking up food for bad times anymore because those times are over. But it took its time until we finally got to this point and that's what the Indigenous people need, too. Time and the will to survive.
The Imperial Britains were by far the most malicious people that existed. Even worse than Nazi's. They destroyed and killed so much. In India, North America, Australia, a good portion of Africa parts of China and in the Middle East. But as soon as someone does something that is not okay for them they start crying.
funny reading the last sentences in 2020 (scheiß Hamsterkäufe) ._. but totally agree
@@crownmp944 Well, the "Hamsterkäufe" didn't occur because of the bad times like they were after WWII in Germany. Now they happened because some douchebags hoarded certain items
Something I noticed is that a lot of the European immigrants who abused, tortured and killed the Natives were of German origin
Cheshire CAT,,,, YOU FORGOT!!! ONLY THE TRUE GOD CAN HEAL THESE ATTROCITIES!!!! IT'S NOT JUST THE INDIANS WHO LIVE THESE HORRORS. IT'S WORLD-WIDE. SODOM AND GOMORRAH FOR REAL.
HITLER DID THE SAME WITH THE JEWS, BUT OPENLY. INDIA HAS THEIR CHILDREN ON STREETS BEING RAPED AND STARVED. JUST TO MENTION A FEW. ALL MASKED BEHIND ""FALSE GODS AND RELIGION"". MANY USE THE NAME OF JESUS, BUT WE WERE WARNED BY HIM THIS WOULD HAPPEN. AND THE TRUE JESUS SAID IN SCRIPTURE "" YOU WILL KNOW THE FALSE TEACHERS SND ANTI-CHRISTS BY THEIR FRUITS"". BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!
I am just a wreck watching this. I feel so sorry for how they were treated, especially the poor children who were killed. This was shattering to watch... I can’t... I just can’t...
They had a residential schools in Europe it was for pregnant women.
It was absolutely unbearable.
Not going to act tough, I cried for a few seconds.... there’s just no explanation... the cold, the fear, the helplessness.
It wasn’t Canadas Fault The British Started It They Had Upper Canada under Control Where Most Of The Residential Schools Were
So Stop Giving Canada All The Hate! The British Started It! Stop Giving Canada The Full Blame.
I can't stop crying, my heart 💔 breaks for these children! Makes my stomach sick and twisted up! It makes me want to somehow help to get justice for the Indigenous people. I just can't sit here and cry. Every fiber of my being wants to help somehow, some way...😥
Decades centuries of racism and abuse. So much pain that was inflicted can’t be fixed with a price tag.
Never learnt any history of Australia before Capt Cook's arrival. Learnt all about kings and Queens of England, dates, battles, literature of Britain. But then after I left school learnt about the atrocities committed by Brittain to Indigenous Aborigines of Australia. It's criminal of the school system to not teach the truths of history.
This needs to be taught in all schools, no sugar coating. Such sad history ,but we are a strong people..
Hello fellow Lee
It IS taught in schools
So shocking! It breaks my heart. It is so sad that this has ever happened.
Canada's indigenous still hated in their own country....here you wi read comments that say it's not like that now...but still viewed as bottom of the barrel by many