Thanks so much for sharing your life . May you all get peace of heart. We all as human are equal indeed. We all have rights to be respected, accepted and loved regardless of religious, cultural, status.
My view is this message about residential schools is not "Anti Canadian", rather, this affirms we Canadians know how to admit and apologize for past wrongs to Indigenous Peoples, and move on together in peaceful and inclusive ways to improve all Canadian lives.
Don't believe the propaganda. Apology is an indigenous word meaning "give us money and privilege forever." Abusers should be punished, not Canadian taxpayers for eternity.
I married into a family decimated by residential schools and after many generations of hurt and anger, I am finally seeing survivors. I am proud of my “chosen” family because they have never seen themselves as “victims of residential school” but they are SURVIVORS of residential schools.
@@blader45bc It may be better to think of the plight of the indigenous in terms of nationhood rather than ward-hood. If Indigenous people wanted nothing but money and privilege forever, then I am certain I would have heard more about that. Yet, if we think of the idea as a nation status, then the Indigenous plight is more akin to the sovereignty that Catalonia wants from Spain, Quebec from Canada, the Confederate States from The US, Northern Ireland from the UK, Taiwan from China, Tibet from China, etc. Then, once that is recognized, it is not that there are whining babies that want money and to be taken care of forever, but there are nations within another nation that refuses to give them sovereignty, but is willing to somewhat respect self-rule.
Shared this with my class and my family. I will continue to be open to learning, listening, and honouring all whose stolen land I walk upon. I will remember those who did not survive and those who did within Canada's Residential schools. I will continue to lobby my governments, vote for those who stand behind survivors seeking justice in court, and not fight against them. It took a long time for Colonialism to become...we must remain vigilant and hopeful and strong for a long time to come to bring it all down!
I kept scrolling my ytube home page, scrolling, and scrolling. I ignored Mr. Beast videos, but instead, I pressed into this. I kept my eyes on the video, never blinking ( well maybe a few times ) , thanks, you touched my heart!
How do these people not have a damn heart? He was 6 Years Old. God, this makes me embarrassed to actually be Canadian, the fact that the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT actually helped these people do this...
And people wonder why we want to remove/deface statues of John A Macdonald?! He spearheaded this venture of “killing the Indian in the child”. Those were his exact words. It’s crazy how many Canadians don’t acknowledge or even know this part of our history.
I love you, I see you, I hear you. I wear my orange T-shirt to represent my support and acknowledge the sufferings that your peoples endured. Not just today but always is truth and reconciliation. None of this will this take away the hardships but as an ally I am with you.
In 1937, Indian Affairs was paying $180 a year per student for residential schools Manitoba School for the Deaf: $642.40/student per year Manitoba School for Boys: $550/student per year Aboriginal children in residential schools were underfunded, they were underfed which resulted in adult diabetes which passed on to their offsprings. Under funding resources meant lack of supervision, so there was multiple abuses:sexual, cultural, mental, emotional. Not only that, they kids were involuntarily taken away from their family and community to place in a school that wasn't a school. They were neglected of love and proper child rearing. It disgusts me to see comments about taxpayers and what not. This is ignorance. And no I am not an Aboriginal.
I bet God and Jesus were VERY disappointed in them, they won’t even allow them to Heaven when they die or be left behind during the Rapture! For their cruelty, they’ll have to spend the rest of their lives banished to a island prison far away from civilization and community service to the Indigenous people of the Americas and across the globe!
Thank you for the video. Im an immigrant in Canada and lived learning this! Im also white and dont feel that im got any blame in this, because ive got my history on my people being kicked out of their place (polish by german). Just rather try to move forward fix whatever needs to be fix and lets just move forward… loving and respecting one another!
God this is so sad. 1998? Why are humans so awful? I like to think we are evolved, but we aren’t. This is so recent in our history, and the loss of life and culture is devastating.
Oh man, the comments on this video just underscore how awful humanity is. Mass genocide, theft of land, and systematic abuse doesn’t bother these people, but taxes, they are triggered. There’s no hope.
@@emiryan2238 Now that you have come to the conclusion that there is no hope, what do you plan on doing and how does the lack of hope in your world affect your everyday existence? Has any hope arisen from the last three months, or does it stand in a world of hopelessness? (also, *1996)
@@emiryan2238 exactly.., masks, vaccines, and other health measures to help others are oppressive and tyrannical to these people, but indiginous residential school survivors need to 'get over it'?
@@smythmaya no, he is probably french because in our senior year we have a unit in English class about Canada , so I think that he's thanking the channel for the video
My mom told me before she passed on that I wasn't even suppose to be born. In 1958 my parents had a baby boy. Life went on as usual, my dad boated people from remote reserves and boat them to Gold River, BC. During this time my mom went about cleaning and prepairing for supper when she didn't here any sound coming from the baby's room, so my mom went to check on Billy. Well, sadly Billy passed what we know today as crip death. My dad contracted tb which was quite common, so my mom said that she put her foot down with my dad and said no more kids. Then I was born. I was born with club feet, death in both ears and borderline retardation. I was taken out of my home at 3 years old and taken to residential school only to be almost killed there. One day I walked over to the principle who was a priest, and I kicked him in the shins and said I wanted to go home. The principle looked at me with anguish and he grabbed my arm dragged me over to the basement door. He looked at me for what he thought would be his last time. He puts his hand on my back and he throws me down the step. Remember to breath. If you believe in angels as I do, I felt an angel wrapping himself around me preventing me from hurting myself while rolling down the steps. He gently lands me at the bottom of the steps. Of course the principle saw that I was still alive and he runs down the steps. He grabs my arm and he puts me in a 5by5 cage and he handcufs my leg to the cage so that I would try to escape. I was 3 years old, where would I go. They didn't want me thereafter, and I was taken to the Supreme Court to be made a ward of the courts. I was then handed over to the social service to be put into the foster care system. I remember being brought to the Williams home, I couldn't walk, so the social worker carried me to the steps of the Williams. The social worker gave me a teddy bear that I still have today and his name is Boo Boo. Things weren't the greatest at the Williams, I couldn't hear, but I saw that Mrs. Williams was always yelling and throwing her arms around. Today I'm advocate for first nations people here in Canada and the US I am a consultant. I have been doing now for 38 years. The reason is what I learned as an advocate is anytime social service wants to hide any child they put them under the foster parents name. I was born Billy George, while in fostercare at the Williams I became Billy George Williams. The Williams was getting 1800.00 dollars a month for looking after me in the 60s, thats a lot of money. Mrs. Williams always fought with their family doctor to get me to see a specialist about having feet and ear operations to see if it would be possible. I was sent to see specialist for my feet and another specialist for my ears. The end result was that if was possible to have feet and ear operations. The first time I was able to walk straight I was 10 years old, and I was 12 years old when I heard for the first time. When social service found out that I was walking straight and hearing, they brought the money the Williams was use to getting and brought it down to money of the day for foster parents which was 3 or 4 hundred dollars a month. The Williams didn't like that and they kicked me out. I went to my social worker and then I was brought into the supervisor's office and I was told that I would be put on independent living at age 13. Read that again. Imagine any child living on their own, this is why I am an advocate today because it still happens to children being put on thier own. This happened 9 months after I first heard, I didn't even know what the noise was when someone knocked on the door. Two weeks after I was on my own, I was kidnapped, raped by a man up in the mountains, almost killed, and left for dead up in the mountains stark naked. And today I'm a filmmaker telling our story.
@@BGWFILMSTUDIOS 3 years old? AS A THREE YEAR OLD TODDLER YOU WERE SENT TO A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL?? Goodness, stories like yours need to be heard by more people!
Thank you for sharing your story, my heart is in pain for what you have gone through, may you find full healing as you share your stories with the world👏👏
This breaks my heart as someone who’s half native on my mom said who is mixed with African and Native American I really wished are people get the Justice
This is extremely sad and a disgrace to Canada that they encouraged these people to do such harm to innocent children. It only took the canadian govt over a hundred years before realizing and accept their mistakes and try to correct their wrong doing. Very Horrible, sad and disappointing. But now with the Truth and Reconciliation at least we can all learn that we all have the right to be respected and accepted. miigwech
I knew boarding schools were no good because they don't treat indigenous people with kindness, dignity or respect at all they abused and discriminated them a lot. For Eliza thornberry she didn't like boarding school at all because she didn't feel accepted or appreciated for who she is as a unique individual and she didn't like being away from her parents so much.
Do you wish for sovereignty akin to the rights of a nation-state like Canada, the US, Russia, Germany, etc? Or do you desire to own your land in a system as it is today with the reserves under the Indian Act?
@@pebblezartz2435 Same question to you: Do you wish for sovereignty akin to the rights of a nation-state like Canada, the US, Russia, Germany, etc? Or do you desire to own your land in a system as it is today with the reserves under the Indian Act?
Foolish of you. So in something you have absolutely no control over, you being born white, you feel guilt? It wasn't your doing or your choice to be born white so why feel bad?
@@mattc7005 Maybe because he/she feels compassion, and is aware of what collective memory and unconscious are and what consequences they have in nowadays life (as a reminder, many indigenous people are still living in reserves, where they cannot have right of ownership on the lands (which belong to the Crown), and live in some of the poorest conditions in Canada, resulting of a long discrimination towards History that still legally lasts). So "foolinsh of you"... I am not sure.
@@mattc7005 I can get that, but maybe (for him/her) it is about being heir of such things and participating, by not (enough?) actively trying to stop the consequences (such as the discriminations I was talking about before), to perpetuate them... but I agree on the fact that feeling guilty about things like this does not always mean feeling guilty about everything of our culture and what we are: if we are unfortunately in charge of fixing our ancestors' mistakes, we are not responsible for them.
Even though First Nations like the Crees and Denes had some bondings and more understandings and communications with the Inuits there is still some hostility between them when it comes to The Indigenous Music awards and The Metis also have some troubles with First Nations too mainly in The Indigenous Music awards also but not as much with The Inuits
Completely unacceptable from our once trusted govt & churches. So ashamed. Dont feel 'I'm Sorry' is enough. Hope you can forgive & Together let's move fwd.❣💞❣
The Truth. Lets talk about the Cherokee keeping black slaves, lets talk about the Comanche slaughtering innocent children, lets talk about how about bad the ethnic cleansing was between tribes, lets talk about their cannibalism, lets talk about tribes stealing land from each other!!!! Do you really want the truth?????
The residential school is truly terrible. I am an immigrant and I am showing my kids this so he can learned about the truth. And know we need to understand more about the indigenous culture.
No one is an ‘ Immigrant’ on stolen Indigenous lands..learn that in your history books..priests still run free while raping little boys in this precious society
Fact check: South Africa, a country also founded as a white settler-colony, had a truth and reconciliation commission back in the 1990s. This happened in the aftermath of apartheid, which *WAS MODELED AFTER THE CANADIAN INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM*
I'm sorry for not knowing this and I apologize if the question is stupid but could someone please explain what does this has to do with India or something because I'm genuinely confused...
europeans thought that canada was india all those years ago so they called them indians but the proper way to efer to aboriginals are first nations, metis etc...
dans cette vidéo, Robert Joseph nous raconte ce que lui et d'autres aborigènes ont vécu dans une école résidentielle pendant son enfance. la façon dont ils étaient traités était traumatisante, ils seraient punis pour avoir commis de petits actes, ils souffraient de la ségrégation qui les empêchait d'acquérir des compétences sociales que les jeunes devraient apprendre en grandissant. ils n'étaient pas libres de choisir ce en quoi ils croyaient. Leur culture était ciblée comme quelque chose qui devait être éliminé. toutes ces choses dont ils ont souffert les ont poussés aux addictions, à l'alcoolisme et à la violence. Mais l'histoire de ces difficultés et défis auxquels les aborigènes ont été confrontés à l'école résidentielle a été absolument ignorée. Robert Joseph a mentionné sa présence lors de la présentation du rapport de la commission vérité et réconciliation, où le président de la commission a dénoncé le Canada pour avoir commis un génocide culturel. Aussi lorsque le premier ministre s'est excusé auprès des survivants aborigènes. Robert Joseph a terminé la vidéo en disant que le Canada est le seul pays occidental qui a eu une Commission de vérité et réconciliation et que les Canadiens et les peuples aborigènes se célèbrent et se soutiennent mutuellement alors qu'ils promeuvent un avenir égal pour tous.
So why am I the problem? ALL I and many many Canadians have done is support and fund you. Take your anger out on those that deserve it, the Catholic church!
@jackeboi6289 Underfunded? They get billions of dollars a year. Meanwhile, their chiefs roll around in big pickup trucks and live in mansions, wonder where all the money goes huh? Ever wonder why they fought so hard to stay off the Sunshine List?
As long as the reconciliation does not involve people who were never directly involved in anything that requires reconciliation. You are simply facist to endeavour retrospectively legislating guilt for sins not committed. And the jury is going to be out a damn long time determining if the moral terrain in this situation is anything but level.
"I believe we all share the same consciousness. We literally all are the consciousness, and everything is. I believe we all are connected. Like a metaphor, everything is like one huge brain, and we all are that one brain. I think we are all one, and each what is called individuals are 'split personalities" of the one. Truth appears to be stranger than fiction. Lol" --- Shanon Sandquist
You don’t blame every person for what happened in those days just the ones who intentionally made the children and families suffer that’s who is held accountable here, and may this never happen again to anyone
if you're asking this, then you are privileged and you were given privileges throughout your life from your rulers, that you're now paying back to people who were abused by your rulers.
Because you pity them & don't help, (you treat them as second class, & you don't even know it, fake Liberals)) they now have to get out & do it on there're own. Otherwise, nothing will change.
Madeline didn't want to be a perfect lady anyway it almost made her to forget about who she really was as a proud French tomboy girl and standing up to what's right. But in that British charm boarding school in England where she was forced to extend after being falsely accused of being misbehaving for something she didn't do the teachers aren't very nice to her at all when they're trying to change her into a well finished perfect lady by discriminating her by reminding her what perfect ladies can and can't do and forcing her to be quiet and speak English only no other languages allowed. For madeline she didn't like being a perfect lady at all it didn't make her behave any better it only made her to feel bad and ashamed to be different. Native Americans hated to be civilized by boarding schools either so madeline told miss Clevel her favorite French teacher the truth about the charm school in England that mistreated her so harshly and decided to turn them down and the indigenous people turned down the boarding school the same way.
The government has failed the people. The government has failed the indigenous peoples. The government has failed US. And continue to ever single day. Sure the government shut down all of the residential schools and apologized to the indigenous people but they still failed them. And still continue to because of the disrespect indigenous people face. The street signs that mock the language and have the incorrect spelling. The failure to teach indigenous languages in school because French and English are the only important languages. The failure to teach about indigenous culture. The only thing I’ve EVER learned in school is about residential schools. I have no idea about ANYTHING else. I have no idea what to say, how to speak about aboriginal peoples without accidentally offended them because I’ve never learned how. I know some of them don’t like the term Eskimo and some don’t care. I know they don’t like being called Indian because they aren’t Indian. I don’t know anything. Because it isn’t taught.
dans cette vidéo, Robert Joseph nous raconte ce que lui et d'autres aborigènes ont vécu dans une école résidentielle pendant son enfance. la façon dont ils étaient traités était traumatisante, ils seraient punis pour avoir commis de petits actes, ils souffraient de la ségrégation qui les empêchait d'acquérir des compétences sociales que les jeunes devraient apprendre en grandissant. ils n'étaient pas libres de choisir ce en quoi ils croyaient. Leur culture était ciblée comme quelque chose qui devait être éliminé. toutes ces choses dont ils ont souffert les ont poussés aux addictions, à l'alcoolisme et à la violence. Mais l'histoire de ces difficultés et défis auxquels les aborigènes ont été confrontés à l'école résidentielle a été absolument ignorée. Robert Joseph a mentionné sa présence lors de la présentation du rapport de la commission vérité et réconciliation, où le président de la commission a dénoncé le Canada pour avoir commis un génocide culturel. Aussi lorsque le premier ministre s'est excusé auprès des survivants aborigènes. Robert Joseph a terminé la vidéo en disant que le Canada est le seul pays occidental qui a eu une Commission de vérité et réconciliation et que les Canadiens et les peuples aborigènes se célèbrent et se soutiennent mutuellement alors qu'ils promeuvent un avenir égal pour tous.
The moral of this story is: don't interfere with primitive societies. Just leave them as you found them. Going forward, they can educate themselves and at their own expense.
..🦊...the split family issues are dark day’s,.....basically we have a group of people who been rapping their own kids and/or having them rapped by another from their group,...their population is on the rise ,...this is why we don’t read about this in our own newspapers ,that group of people are in key positions,....you kids ever figure out why we are not successful on our own Reservations? ,....my experience with these people are : denied , redirect , ignore ,.....figure it out, who I’m writing about ,.....🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Is it not true that almost all people of canada came from different parts of the world with different cultures? Is it not true that all children, including children of today, were and are forced into residential schools? Is it not true today that children are taught idiology and things parents and cultures disagree with, by way of force into the school system? Is it not true that there is no definitive evidence that any children were killed and thousands of graves are to this day only presumed graves without evidence? Should we not find out the truth with undeniable evidence before we call it the truth? Is it not true that genocides like the holicost and the gulags were far worse than being forced to go to school as a child? A practice still forced on all children today? A practice that has been forced on children for hundreds of years all around the world. Not just indigenous people. Every child matters? Does anyone or any organization believe in todays society this is not true? Why do we continually bring up the past and hold fast a victim mentality in order to shame and attack people of today who had nothing to do with anything that happened in the past.? Is it not true that this day creates segregation, hatred, violence and does very little to create the idea of reconciliation.? How is blaming people of today that had nothing to do with the past helping anyone? Things that happened Hundreds of years ago were terrible all around the world. Things that happened to these children were terrible no doubt. Just not sure how shaming my child or an entire race of people for things they had no part in helps fix anything. Just some thoughts.
No regular schools today are not residential schools. You don't find thousands of white children's remains on Canadian school grounds. You don't have priests coming into everyone's home, tearing apart the children from their parents banning them from speaking their own language. "Is it not true that genocides like the holicost and the gulags" First of all it's spelled holocaust, second of all these schools were APART of the genocide of indigenous peoples of Canada. It is why the schools existed. "Things that happened Hundreds of years ago were terrible all around the world." - The last school closed in 1996, many of these people are still alive - and because of how horrific it is, it causes generational trauma. Having a day that focuses on this doesn't take away anything from you. This day doesn't shame your children. It educates them and makes them aware of Canada's history. Both good and bad history is important to know so we don't repeat the same mistakes. Just some thoughts.
@noname-fr1ld I understand and agree with your points. One day a year to look at the past wrongs is fine and absolutely required. I don't see one day, though. I see day after day after day of shaming and victim blaming, and that is what I have an issue with. My child is bombarded in school with shame because of the color of her skin. She is 9. Not only did she not do anything to deserve this shaming no one I know did anything to participate in the horrible things that happened in the past. She doesn't need to reconcile anything. She is taught to treat everyone equal and in return she is segregated out as an oppressor bad white person and shamed. How is this equal rights? Schools today are racist against my child. They force idiology on her that I don't agree with. They are forced to believe they are oppressors and bad people with generational privileges. Forced to believe in gender idiology and forced feel shame for just being alive and white. How is this not the same as taking culture from a people and forcing conformity just like what they did with the children before. Yet you call your story genicide and what they do today, making the world better. Back then, they thought they were doing good. They were obviously wrong, but that's not the point. I grew up with nothing and earned my own way. My daughter does not stem from privileges or generational wealth, she stems from a Ukrainian background of people forced into labor camps and turned into slaves. Most of my ancestors are dead, so I guess they could not pass down the trauma. Sorry. Guess that makes their murder and torture ok compared to being forced into school. The gulags ended in 1956. So there are still people alive who had to deal with that. You don't see me whining and demanding reperations for what other people did to people I don't know, do you.? Or blaming others for the fact I can't make it. The thousands of children killed is not factual. The truth, believe it or not, is that they have not proven that one child was killed, let alone thousands. To believe homicidal nuns went on a killing spree is absolutely stupid. If it happened, show the proof. Dig up the bones and show it happened. People don't even realize this is all accusations based on no evidence. Why do you think they have never dug up one body??????. Yet feel it ok to insite violence on white people and churches based on non factual stories with no proof. It is designed to create hatred between our people while the government takes from us all. They want native people to hate white people because if we ever joined forces they would be in trouble. I do believe what they did is horrible. Do I believe it is genocide,,,no. It is an insult to the 100 million people, my ancestors included that died in the name of socialism and a better future for all. Being forced to go to school and learn things that go against your beliefs and family is what they are doing today. Being racist towards a group of people is what is happening to my 9 year old girl. The past is a horrible place but we have created a better society with human rights laws and you cannot tell me everyone isn't better off living in this free world. So go ahead and hate me because of my skin color. Make fun of my spelling if you must to justify your hatred. Keep teaching hate to your children if you want. That's what people with no argument do. Shame, ridicule and attack. Just one more thing. Almost all people in canada came from different parts of the world,,? Explain how this is not factual. Isn't it true that other than native people everyone else came from somewhere else? In fact if you go back far enough native peoples came here also from somewhere else. Are you actually stating facts are not facts based on what exactly?? Anyway, take care and try not to hate people because they are the wrong color. Cheers
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Heart wrenching! I was sobbing by the end of this video. Thank you for sharing.
His voice as he said that was so steady and felt chilling.
Thanks so much for sharing your life .
May you all get peace of heart.
We all as human are equal indeed.
We all have rights to be respected, accepted and loved regardless of religious, cultural, status.
Beautifully described for heartbreaking losses. Thank you Chief Robert Joseph.
This video let me cry .Thank you for sharing the story!!!
1996. That’s horrifying. You would think such cruelty happened hundred of years ago
Residential schools ain't even all gone, dont let the CBC brainwash you
Only 20% of them went to residential schools and in the '80s they were run by Indian bands.
@@urbanwarchiefIt’s a different type of residential schools…
This is an excellent first-hand account. A helpful introduction to the history and thought behind residential schools. Thank you for posting it!
My view is this message about residential schools is not "Anti Canadian", rather, this affirms we Canadians know how to admit and apologize for past wrongs to Indigenous Peoples, and move on together in peaceful and inclusive ways to improve all Canadian lives.
Don't believe the propaganda. Apology is an indigenous word meaning "give us money and privilege forever." Abusers should be punished, not Canadian taxpayers for eternity.
Poor little children
Wow
I married into a family decimated by residential schools and after many generations of hurt and anger, I am finally seeing survivors. I am proud of my “chosen” family because they have never seen themselves as “victims of residential school” but they are SURVIVORS of residential schools.
@@blader45bc It may be better to think of the plight of the indigenous in terms of nationhood rather than ward-hood. If Indigenous people wanted nothing but money and privilege forever, then I am certain I would have heard more about that. Yet, if we think of the idea as a nation status, then the Indigenous plight is more akin to the sovereignty that Catalonia wants from Spain, Quebec from Canada, the Confederate States from The US, Northern Ireland from the UK, Taiwan from China, Tibet from China, etc. Then, once that is recognized, it is not that there are whining babies that want money and to be taken care of forever, but there are nations within another nation that refuses to give them sovereignty, but is willing to somewhat respect self-rule.
Shared this with my class and my family. I will continue to be open to learning, listening, and honouring all whose stolen land I walk upon. I will remember those who did not survive and those who did within Canada's Residential schools. I will continue to lobby my governments, vote for those who stand behind survivors seeking justice in court, and not fight against them. It took a long time for Colonialism to become...we must remain vigilant and hopeful and strong for a long time to come to bring it all down!
I kept scrolling my ytube home page, scrolling, and scrolling. I ignored Mr. Beast videos, but instead, I pressed into this. I kept my eyes on the video, never blinking ( well maybe a few times ) , thanks, you touched my heart!
thank you very much for this, my focus has been everywhere and my mind is like sensitive due to who i hang around with.
How do these people not have a damn heart? He was 6 Years Old. God, this makes me embarrassed to actually be Canadian, the fact that the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT actually helped these people do this...
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And people wonder why we want to remove/deface statues of John A Macdonald?! He spearheaded this venture of “killing the Indian in the child”.
Those were his exact words. It’s crazy how many Canadians don’t acknowledge or even know this part of our history.
I cried im truly embarrassed
Not sure how this doesn't have many more views.
This broke my heart.
SubhanaAllah
Then use your brain, back home ! where enabling is really needed.
@@slydawwg wtf does that even mean
A man for that
it's a good thing kids are learning about this
From simple minds.
I love you, I see you, I hear you. I wear my orange T-shirt to represent my support and acknowledge the sufferings that your peoples endured. Not just today but always is truth and reconciliation. None of this will this take away the hardships but as an ally I am with you.
6. Years. Old.
Now they do it at 4 and most people send to preschool some parents throw their children at 6 month into the hands of fascist tyrants.
In 1937, Indian Affairs was paying $180 a year per student for residential schools
Manitoba School for the Deaf: $642.40/student per year
Manitoba School for Boys: $550/student per year
Aboriginal children in residential schools were underfunded, they were underfed which resulted in adult diabetes which passed on to their offsprings. Under funding resources meant lack of supervision, so there was multiple abuses:sexual, cultural, mental, emotional. Not only that, they kids were involuntarily taken away from their family and community to place in a school that wasn't a school. They were neglected of love and proper child rearing. It disgusts me to see comments about taxpayers and what not. This is ignorance. And no I am not an Aboriginal.
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You were under-parented. It all starts from that.
Thank you for saying this.
I bet God and Jesus were VERY disappointed in them, they won’t even allow them to Heaven when they die or be left behind during the Rapture! For their cruelty, they’ll have to spend the rest of their lives banished to a island prison far away from civilization and community service to the Indigenous people of the Americas and across the globe!
thank you
I’m sorry that you have lived through such inhumanity. We are one.
Thank you for the video. Im an immigrant in Canada and lived learning this! Im also white and dont feel that im got any blame in this, because ive got my history on my people being kicked out of their place (polish by german). Just rather try to move forward fix whatever needs to be fix and lets just move forward… loving and respecting one another!
In South Africa the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ran from 1996. It was vital in healing the hurt and division caused by Apartheid.
This video brought me to tears😢
Thank you for sharing
My class watched this
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Enabler.
Made me cry :,(
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so sad ;(
Native on native, you have to read, study, learn Period.
beutiful video !!!
God this is so sad. 1998? Why are humans so awful? I like to think we are evolved, but we aren’t. This is so recent in our history, and the loss of life and culture is devastating.
Oh man, the comments on this video just underscore how awful humanity is. Mass genocide, theft of land, and systematic abuse doesn’t bother these people, but taxes, they are triggered. There’s no hope.
@@emiryan2238 Now that you have come to the conclusion that there is no hope, what do you plan on doing and how does the lack of hope in your world affect your everyday existence? Has any hope arisen from the last three months, or does it stand in a world of hopelessness?
(also, *1996)
@@emiryan2238 exactly.., masks, vaccines, and other health measures to help others are oppressive and tyrannical to these people, but indiginous residential school survivors need to 'get over it'?
good video; we study it in classeroom in english. thanks you
So your thanking the residential schools?
@@smythmaya no, he is probably french because in our senior year we have a unit in English class about Canada , so I think that he's thanking the channel for the video
Everyone matters. everywhere.
My mom told me before she passed on that I wasn't even suppose to be born. In 1958 my parents had a baby boy. Life went on as usual, my dad boated people from remote reserves and boat them to Gold River, BC. During this time my mom went about cleaning and prepairing for supper when she didn't here any sound coming from the baby's room, so my mom went to check on Billy. Well, sadly Billy passed what we know today as crip death. My dad contracted tb which was quite common, so my mom said that she put her foot down with my dad and said no more kids. Then I was born.
I was born with club feet, death in both ears and borderline retardation.
I was taken out of my home at 3 years old and taken to residential school only to be almost killed there. One day I walked over to the principle who was a priest, and I kicked him in the shins and said I wanted to go home. The principle looked at me with anguish and he grabbed my arm dragged me over to the basement door. He looked at me for what he thought would be his last time. He puts his hand on my back and he throws me down the step. Remember to breath. If you believe in angels as I do, I felt an angel wrapping himself around me preventing me from hurting myself while rolling down the steps. He gently lands me at the bottom of the steps. Of course the principle saw that I was still alive and he runs down the steps. He grabs my arm and he puts me in a 5by5 cage and he handcufs my leg to the cage so that I would try to escape. I was 3 years old, where would I go.
They didn't want me thereafter, and I was taken to the Supreme Court to be made a ward of the courts. I was then handed over to the social service to be put into the foster care system.
I remember being brought to the Williams home, I couldn't walk, so the social worker carried me to the steps of the Williams. The social worker gave me a teddy bear that I still have today and his name is Boo Boo.
Things weren't the greatest at the Williams, I couldn't hear, but I saw that Mrs. Williams was always yelling and throwing her arms around. Today I'm advocate for first nations people here in Canada and the US I am a consultant. I have been doing now for 38 years. The reason is what I learned as an advocate is anytime social service wants to hide any child they put them under the foster parents name. I was born Billy George, while in fostercare at the Williams I became Billy George Williams. The Williams was getting 1800.00 dollars a month for looking after me in the 60s, thats a lot of money. Mrs. Williams always fought with their family doctor to get me to see a specialist about having feet and ear operations to see if it would be possible. I was sent to see specialist for my feet and another specialist for my ears. The end result was that if was possible to have feet and ear operations. The first time I was able to walk straight I was 10 years old, and I was 12 years old when I heard for the first time. When social service found out that I was walking straight and hearing, they brought the money the Williams was use to getting and brought it down to money of the day for foster parents which was 3 or 4 hundred dollars a month. The Williams didn't like that and they kicked me out. I went to my social worker and then I was brought into the supervisor's office and I was told that I would be put on independent living at age 13. Read that again. Imagine any child living on their own, this is why I am an advocate today because it still happens to children being put on thier own. This happened 9 months after I first heard, I didn't even know what the noise was when someone knocked on the door.
Two weeks after I was on my own, I was kidnapped, raped by a man up in the mountains, almost killed, and left for dead up in the mountains stark naked. And today I'm a filmmaker telling our story.
I hope your soul found light even after all that torture and hardships..i pray u do🙏🥺
@@see2saw I have and today I tell my story, our story
I’m so sorry. It must’ve been traumatizing. I hope you’re doing well.
@@BGWFILMSTUDIOS 3 years old? AS A THREE YEAR OLD TODDLER YOU WERE SENT TO A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL?? Goodness, stories like yours need to be heard by more people!
Thank you for sharing your story, my heart is in pain for what you have gone through, may you find full healing as you share your stories with the world👏👏
made ne cry - this is painful :(
This breaks my heart as someone who’s half native on my mom said who is mixed with African and Native American I really wished are people get the Justice
Maybe if one your kind is a judge or a congressperson, they’d teach these cruel people a lesson!
we all bleed red
This makes me feel just sad to be canadian. It's embarrassing that OUR people did that. This is just ridiculous also, 88 dislikes?! monsters.
Just ridiculous.
Who could dislike this?!? I can’t believe that
When do we get to the truth?
This is extremely sad and a disgrace to Canada that they encouraged these people to do such harm to innocent children. It only took the canadian govt over a hundred years before realizing and accept their mistakes and try to correct their wrong doing. Very Horrible, sad and disappointing. But now with the Truth and Reconciliation at least we can all learn that we all have the right to be respected and accepted. miigwech
Beautiful
so much
I knew boarding schools were no good because they don't treat indigenous people with kindness, dignity or respect at all they abused and discriminated them a lot. For Eliza thornberry she didn't like boarding school at all because she didn't feel accepted or appreciated for who she is as a unique individual and she didn't like being away from her parents so much.
our land will soon be ours again
hey lois
Mr. Thot Slayer that profile tho
@@mightydog03_ what does Hey Lois mean?
Do you wish for sovereignty akin to the rights of a nation-state like Canada, the US, Russia, Germany, etc? Or do you desire to own your land in a system as it is today with the reserves under the Indian Act?
@@pebblezartz2435 Same question to you:
Do you wish for sovereignty akin to the rights of a nation-state like Canada, the US, Russia, Germany, etc? Or do you desire to own your land in a system as it is today with the reserves under the Indian Act?
oui
im not embarrassed about anything but I hate how they hurt my culture people
I'm crying right now:c
It’s so sad but I did not cry😖😖
As a white person I feel so sorry and so bad for everyone that went through this.
Foolish of you. So in something you have absolutely no control over, you being born white, you feel guilt? It wasn't your doing or your choice to be born white so why feel bad?
@@mattc7005 Maybe because he/she feels compassion, and is aware of what collective memory and unconscious are and what consequences they have in nowadays life (as a reminder, many indigenous people are still living in reserves, where they cannot have right of ownership on the lands (which belong to the Crown), and live in some of the poorest conditions in Canada, resulting of a long discrimination towards History that still legally lasts).
So "foolinsh of you"... I am not sure.
@@alexozcer6281 Okay compassion is one thing and that's good. But i will never feel guilt over something i have no control over, such as white skin
@@mattc7005 I can get that, but maybe (for him/her) it is about being heir of such things and participating, by not (enough?) actively trying to stop the consequences (such as the discriminations I was talking about before), to perpetuate them... but I agree on the fact that feeling guilty about things like this does not always mean feeling guilty about everything of our culture and what we are: if we are unfortunately in charge of fixing our ancestors' mistakes, we are not responsible for them.
Even though First Nations like the Crees and Denes had some bondings and more understandings and communications with the Inuits there is still some hostility between them when it comes to The Indigenous Music awards and The Metis also have some troubles with First Nations too mainly in The Indigenous Music awards also but not as much with The Inuits
Completely unacceptable from our once trusted govt & churches. So ashamed. Dont feel 'I'm Sorry' is enough. Hope you can forgive & Together let's move fwd.❣💞❣
I totally agree!
someone to make a summary , please
The Truth.
Lets talk about the Cherokee keeping black slaves,
lets talk about the Comanche slaughtering innocent children,
lets talk about how about bad the ethnic cleansing was between tribes,
lets talk about their cannibalism,
lets talk about tribes stealing land from each other!!!!
Do you really want the truth?????
that sounds like living hell
Niko D one I’m in school online right now
@@Ali-rf7fd don’t joke about that
For real I’m not I’m was online
Not in this school I’m in grade three
yup
The residential school is truly terrible. I am an immigrant and I am showing my kids this so he can learned about the truth. And know we need to understand more about the indigenous culture.
No one is an ‘ Immigrant’ on stolen Indigenous lands..learn that in your history books..priests still run free while raping little boys in this precious society
Fact check: South Africa, a country also founded as a white settler-colony, had a truth and reconciliation commission back in the 1990s. This happened in the aftermath of apartheid, which *WAS MODELED AFTER THE CANADIAN INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SYSTEM*
What you all say is true. He did say Western country... maybe South Africa isn't part of the West? Dunno
I'm sorry for not knowing this and I apologize if the question is stupid but could someone please explain what does this has to do with India or something because I'm genuinely confused...
europeans thought that canada was india all those years ago so they called them indians but the proper way to efer to aboriginals are first nations, metis etc...
Good man
@@manjitbains1465 !?
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xoxoxo Sending love and support. xo
wow
to make you feel better the timestamp is 4:20
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Somebody can traduct this video in french please ?
dans cette vidéo, Robert Joseph nous raconte ce que lui et d'autres aborigènes ont vécu dans une école résidentielle pendant son enfance. la façon dont ils étaient traités était traumatisante, ils seraient punis pour avoir commis de petits actes, ils souffraient de la ségrégation qui les empêchait d'acquérir des compétences sociales que les jeunes devraient apprendre en grandissant. ils n'étaient pas libres de choisir ce en quoi ils croyaient. Leur culture était ciblée comme quelque chose qui devait être éliminé. toutes ces choses dont ils ont souffert les ont poussés aux addictions, à l'alcoolisme et à la violence. Mais l'histoire de ces difficultés et défis auxquels les aborigènes ont été confrontés à l'école résidentielle a été absolument ignorée. Robert Joseph a mentionné sa présence lors de la présentation du rapport de la commission vérité et réconciliation, où le président de la commission a dénoncé le Canada pour avoir commis un génocide culturel. Aussi lorsque le premier ministre s'est excusé auprès des survivants aborigènes. Robert Joseph a terminé la vidéo en disant que le Canada est le seul pays occidental qui a eu une Commission de vérité et réconciliation et que les Canadiens et les peuples aborigènes se célèbrent et se soutiennent mutuellement alors qu'ils promeuvent un avenir égal pour tous.
Memo 2001 merci, mais est-ce que on nous dit explicitement ou non pour quelles raisons les canadiens ont eu cette relation avec les autochtones?
@@mariamulla3819 merci beaucoup
@@trinity1332 de rien. non on nous le dit pas
@@karimbeaujean9979 de rien
Poor children
poor babies. Canada need give them their lands back.
This is so sad😭😭😭
So why am I the problem? ALL I and many many Canadians have done is support and fund you.
Take your anger out on those that deserve it, the Catholic church!
nobody said you were the problem
@@jackeboi6289 But they are, demanding money and apologies! FOR WHAT!?
@@stevejh69 for genocide and trauma, also to help their very underfunded communities. Ya know the water up there is full of lead?
@jackeboi6289 Underfunded? They get billions of dollars a year. Meanwhile, their chiefs roll around in big pickup trucks and live in mansions, wonder where all the money goes huh? Ever wonder why they fought so hard to stay off the Sunshine List?
Rest in peace murray sinclair.
As long as the reconciliation does not involve people who were never directly involved in anything that requires reconciliation. You are simply facist to endeavour retrospectively legislating guilt for sins not committed. And the jury is going to be out a damn long time determining if the moral terrain in this situation is anything but level.
"I believe we all share the same consciousness. We literally all are the consciousness, and everything is.
I believe we all are connected. Like a metaphor, everything is like one huge brain, and we all are that one brain.
I think we are all one, and each what is called individuals are 'split personalities" of the one. Truth appears to be
stranger than fiction. Lol" --- Shanon Sandquist
? WOW ? ? & this is what we have to deal with.
You don’t blame every person for what happened in those days just the ones who intentionally made the children and families suffer that’s who is held accountable here, and may this never happen again to anyone
Cbc with open comment section?
Am first nation i live in kettle point in Ontario Canada
😭😭😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️🧸
I am very ashamed of Canada’s history
I did not do this to anybody but I am paying the bill I don’t understand this could somebody explain it to me please
if you're asking this, then you are privileged and you were given privileges throughout your life from your rulers, that you're now paying back to people who were abused by your rulers.
i watched it
anyone watching in 2021 for school- no just me-?🧍♀️
At this point I don't want to live in Canada any more 😢
Who supplies your youth with drugs and addictions?
That is today’s problem.
And that problem stems from the residential school system
Truth and reconciliation has never worked and never will. The question that needs to be answered is “why”.
Because you pity them & don't help, (you treat them as second class, & you don't even know it, fake Liberals)) they now have to get out & do it on there're own. Otherwise, nothing will change.
Priests still raping little boys swept under the carpet work in your civilized inbred society?
who came here from edmodo at alhijra grade 6 where u at
What is it with everyone and revealing their schools?
@@loveticons children aren't as intelligent as adults :)
Still not a single body, or remains found.
Madeline didn't want to be a perfect lady anyway it almost made her to forget about who she really was as a proud French tomboy girl and standing up to what's right. But in that British charm boarding school in England where she was forced to extend after being falsely accused of being misbehaving for something she didn't do the teachers aren't very nice to her at all when they're trying to change her into a well finished perfect lady by discriminating her by reminding her what perfect ladies can and can't do and forcing her to be quiet and speak English only no other languages allowed. For madeline she didn't like being a perfect lady at all it didn't make her behave any better it only made her to feel bad and ashamed to be different. Native Americans hated to be civilized by boarding schools either so madeline told miss Clevel her favorite French teacher the truth about the charm school in England that mistreated her so harshly and decided to turn them down and the indigenous people turned down the boarding school the same way.
how can they do this?!
cause they didn’t see us as human beings
Just no.
Straight up NO!
The government has failed the people. The government has failed the indigenous peoples. The government has failed US.
And continue to ever single day.
Sure the government shut down all of the residential schools and apologized to the indigenous people but they still failed them. And still continue to because of the disrespect indigenous people face. The street signs that mock the language and have the incorrect spelling.
The failure to teach indigenous languages in school because French and English are the only important languages. The failure to teach about indigenous culture. The only thing I’ve EVER learned in school is about residential schools.
I have no idea about ANYTHING else. I have no idea what to say, how to speak about aboriginal peoples without accidentally offended them because I’ve never learned how. I know some of them don’t like the term Eskimo and some don’t care. I know they don’t like being called Indian because they aren’t Indian. I don’t know anything. Because it isn’t taught.
Quelque un peu expliqué en français ?
dans cette vidéo, Robert Joseph nous raconte ce que lui et d'autres aborigènes ont vécu dans une école résidentielle pendant son enfance. la façon dont ils étaient traités était traumatisante, ils seraient punis pour avoir commis de petits actes, ils souffraient de la ségrégation qui les empêchait d'acquérir des compétences sociales que les jeunes devraient apprendre en grandissant. ils n'étaient pas libres de choisir ce en quoi ils croyaient. Leur culture était ciblée comme quelque chose qui devait être éliminé. toutes ces choses dont ils ont souffert les ont poussés aux addictions, à l'alcoolisme et à la violence. Mais l'histoire de ces difficultés et défis auxquels les aborigènes ont été confrontés à l'école résidentielle a été absolument ignorée. Robert Joseph a mentionné sa présence lors de la présentation du rapport de la commission vérité et réconciliation, où le président de la commission a dénoncé le Canada pour avoir commis un génocide culturel. Aussi lorsque le premier ministre s'est excusé auprès des survivants aborigènes. Robert Joseph a terminé la vidéo en disant que le Canada est le seul pays occidental qui a eu une Commission de vérité et réconciliation et que les Canadiens et les peuples aborigènes se célèbrent et se soutiennent mutuellement alors qu'ils promeuvent un avenir égal pour tous.
@@mariamulla3819 merci pour ton commentaire çà nous a beaucoup aider en cours
The moral of this story is: don't interfere with primitive societies. Just leave them as you found them. Going forward, they can educate themselves and at their own expense.
150000 children attended these schools.... They have only found 1000 bodies so far.... Dear God I can only pray
HELLO
Poor kids I feel so bad
..🦊...the split family issues are dark day’s,.....basically we have a group of people who been rapping their own kids and/or having them rapped by another from their group,...their population is on the rise ,...this is why we don’t read about this in our own newspapers ,that group of people are in key positions,....you kids ever figure out why we are not successful on our own Reservations? ,....my experience with these people are : denied , redirect , ignore ,.....figure it out, who I’m writing about ,.....🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Ye
Jesus would be 100% disgusted.
im sorry
148 years of trying to educate your children and were are you today!!!!
No change.
Stop playing the victim!!!!!!!!
Is it not true that almost all people of canada came from different parts of the world with different cultures?
Is it not true that all children, including children of today, were and are forced into residential schools?
Is it not true today that children are taught idiology and things parents and cultures disagree with, by way of force into the school system?
Is it not true that there is no definitive evidence that any children were killed and thousands of graves are to this day only presumed graves without evidence?
Should we not find out the truth with undeniable evidence before we call it the truth?
Is it not true that genocides like the holicost and the gulags were far worse than being forced to go to school as a child? A practice still forced on all children today? A practice that has been forced on children for hundreds of years all around the world. Not just indigenous people.
Every child matters? Does anyone or any organization believe in todays society this is not true?
Why do we continually bring up the past and hold fast a victim mentality in order to shame and attack people of today who had nothing to do with anything that happened in the past.?
Is it not true that this day creates segregation, hatred, violence and does very little to create the idea of reconciliation.?
How is blaming people of today that had nothing to do with the past helping anyone?
Things that happened Hundreds of years ago were terrible all around the world. Things that happened to these children were terrible no doubt. Just not sure how shaming my child or an entire race of people for things they had no part in helps fix anything.
Just some thoughts.
No regular schools today are not residential schools. You don't find thousands of white children's remains on Canadian school grounds. You don't have priests coming into everyone's home, tearing apart the children from their parents banning them from speaking their own language. "Is it not true that genocides like the holicost and the gulags" First of all it's spelled holocaust, second of all these schools were APART of the genocide of indigenous peoples of Canada. It is why the schools existed.
"Things that happened Hundreds of years ago were terrible all around the world." - The last school closed in 1996, many of these people are still alive - and because of how horrific it is, it causes generational trauma. Having a day that focuses on this doesn't take away anything from you. This day doesn't shame your children. It educates them and makes them aware of Canada's history. Both good and bad history is important to know so we don't repeat the same mistakes.
Just some thoughts.
@noname-fr1ld
I understand and agree with your points. One day a year to look at the past wrongs is fine and absolutely required. I don't see one day, though. I see day after day after day of shaming and victim blaming, and that is what I have an issue with. My child is bombarded in school with shame because of the color of her skin. She is 9. Not only did she not do anything to deserve this shaming no one I know did anything to participate in the horrible things that happened in the past. She doesn't need to reconcile anything. She is taught to treat everyone equal and in return she is segregated out as an oppressor bad white person and shamed. How is this equal rights?
Schools today are racist against my child. They force idiology on her that I don't agree with. They are forced to believe they are oppressors and bad people with generational privileges. Forced to believe in gender idiology and forced feel shame for just being alive and white. How is this not the same as taking culture from a people and forcing conformity just like what they did with the children before. Yet you call your story genicide and what they do today, making the world better. Back then, they thought they were doing good. They were obviously wrong, but that's not the point. I grew up with nothing and earned my own way. My daughter does not stem from privileges or generational wealth, she stems from a Ukrainian background of people forced into labor camps and turned into slaves. Most of my ancestors are dead, so I guess they could not pass down the trauma. Sorry. Guess that makes their murder and torture ok compared to being forced into school. The gulags ended in 1956. So there are still people alive who had to deal with that. You don't see me whining and demanding reperations for what other people did to people I don't know, do you.? Or blaming others for the fact I can't make it.
The thousands of children killed is not factual. The truth, believe it or not, is that they have not proven that one child was killed, let alone thousands. To believe homicidal nuns went on a killing spree is absolutely stupid. If it happened, show the proof. Dig up the bones and show it happened. People don't even realize this is all accusations based on no evidence. Why do you think they have never dug up one body??????. Yet feel it ok to insite violence on white people and churches based on non factual stories with no proof. It is designed to create hatred between our people while the government takes from us all. They want native people to hate white people because if we ever joined forces they would be in trouble.
I do believe what they did is horrible. Do I believe it is genocide,,,no. It is an insult to the 100 million people, my ancestors included that died in the name of socialism and a better future for all. Being forced to go to school and learn things that go against your beliefs and family is what they are doing today.
Being racist towards a group of people is what is happening to my 9 year old girl.
The past is a horrible place but we have created a better society with human rights laws and you cannot tell me everyone isn't better off living in this free world.
So go ahead and hate me because of my skin color. Make fun of my spelling if you must to justify your hatred. Keep teaching hate to your children if you want. That's what people with no argument do. Shame, ridicule and attack.
Just one more thing. Almost all people in canada came from different parts of the world,,? Explain how this is not factual. Isn't it true that other than native people everyone else came from somewhere else? In fact if you go back far enough native peoples came here also from somewhere else. Are you actually stating facts are not facts based on what exactly??
Anyway, take care and try not to hate people because they are the wrong color.
Cheers
Two-row wampum says otherwise.
lebret residential school closed in 1998
Read Dr. Peter Bryce's a National crime
How we Canadians let this continue asking as it did .. saddens me . We as a social concussion nation
I'm not conthess, your conthess .
Knowledge or money, it really is that simple... it's a holiday for the economy.