Why do village kids have to go to a city to study? Why can't the schools be located in central First Nations places more familiar & closer to home? Is this painful & risky system really the best possible? Can anyone give me an educated answer? Kids don't pretend to be in this kind of pain -- it's heartbreaking even to see it. Time to make a better way.
+flyinspirals We did that already. The residential schools, and the nightmare they created continues by way of these kids drinking themselves to death due to the fractured families they come from.
Great documentary!!! The youth are great. I moved to Thunder Bay with my family many years ago after graduating college in the States. Being Native myself and being an overcomer over a lot of demons in my past my, heart hurt for these beautiful people. But there are some leaders who are the puppet masters. Sad, but if your native but not from the same nation or treaty you are not respected, trashed by the puppet masters and not allowed in the circle. Politicians have no skin colour... All are abusive, narcissistic Boy they can sell themselves I wish cbc would investigate the way native leadership works and operates, usually run by the same families on and off reserve.
Thank you so much! We are watching this in the Onajigawin Indigenous Program with Confeceration College! I decided to do my assignment on this one! Miigwech.
The cop panel that effectively yawned in front of Jordan’s grandmother. Cold, indifferent, even Olympian disdain. AND....the cop panel knew they were being filmed! That’s a callousness that comes from as a d n a level belief that 1st nation people are irrelevant. And the school system itself .............is to me almost equally cold. They emphasize the rules and rigid expectations with a quiet ferocity that even made me uncomfortable just watching it. Heartless bureaucrats that could be way way more supportive. Scheeeeeeesh I am coming to Thunder Bay from the film makers appearance on Useful Idiots.
This makes me sick. Police in Thunderbay don’t even TRY to hide their prejudice The entire police dept needs to be overhauled. Clean it out. Shouldn’t the police dept reflect the community? So why are there not more First Nation people actually in the police force?? Maybe that would be a first step & maybe knowing this prejudice is happening. Maybe when crimes happen against First Nation people maybe a special group should be started just to check to make sure those are handled properly!!
January 2019, the Thunder Bay Police department was being investigated. That was a 3 year investigation to show improvement and if they would change by 3 years. It is now 3 years after. January 22 2022. Find out if the Police department has been defunded. Search UA-cam. You'll find the news video that was involved. Good luck in reconciliation.
Intergenerational Trauma is definitely a factor that is playing in all of this. The colonization of First Nations People into Residential Schools, and other injustices that were perpetuated upon them by the Government, have done a lot of damage to many First Nations People. We must make known, and forgive. Not make known, and sit in the pity pot. Healing comes only when we forgive.
I agree….. I think many younger generation are opening their eyes. Feeling healing and repairing themselves to move forward speak out loud and make changes
Who is most accountable when the parent or adult fails to earn the trust of the child? Is the adult more responsible, or the child? Apparently, in a few minutes the Fifth Estate team is able to earn the trust of these children to speak their hearts while parents and popular culture are still failing after years.
You obviously don't live in Thunder Bay , it's getting pretty sickening all of them saying the the T Bay Police are Racist , when it's the other way around . I've been attacked for no reason , and you can imagine what one night looks like for a police officer here .
I tell you, I have lived here all my life,my best friend was native,we have lived with natives all our lives,WE DO NOT NEED, W5 OR THE MEDIA ,TO TELL US WHATS WHAT,I am sick and tired of the way this city is being portrayed by the media,alot of people feel the same,I no longer believe ANYTHING coming from the media.......
Jeffrey Lundberg my best friend from childhood is Cree from Moosonee. I grew up in Toronto running the streets and in and out of her complex that is run by Native Child and Family. The emotions are complex, being a person of colour this story brings up many feelings.
I saw another documentary and they were saying how a lot of times it’s indigenous men who seek out the women when they’re young and show them “love” and attention and end up turning them out. I thought that was interesting bc you never hear about anything other than “bad things are happening bc of non-indigenous ppl” and yes that is partly true but quite often, it’s the men within their own community who take advantage of them starting at a very young age
The poor Gramma not getting answers how Jordon paased away. Put tears in my eyes. So many young children drown drinking. I hope the teachers can help the kids.🇨🇦💓🙏🇨🇦
What a sad situation for such a soft spoken and quiet people. The last time I looked Canada was not a Third World country, so why are so many of its folk treated in such an inhumane way? I appreciate that there's a possible bonus getting these children away from a society where drugs and drink play such an important role in daily life. But they are taken out of an environment they understand and put into another they find hard to adjust to. The answer must be to make schooling better nearer home and to do something to improve quality of life in their own communities. This probably means meaningful employment and better services, but it would pay dividends I'm sure. As the school head said: It wouldn't be tolerated in Hamilton, but then most of the pupils there are not First Nation.
You answered your question. Drugs and drink. No matter how much money, time, and effort has been spent on trying to do something with northern reserves *nothing* is ever accomplished except more of the same. People have to want to change. When that happens, they will.
The Gov. Abused and tore families apart and are still not honoring treaties from centuries ago. No wonder the natives are so bitter and some are broken.... makes me sick!
This is crazy! Thunder Bay has a lot of racism issues, I visit there often and I am from Red Lake, I remember I was walking home from the bar at night, during my walk back to my hotel Super 8 the police ended up arresting me for public intoxication but I wasn't even intoxicated to the level of being arrested but I so I just brushed it off and went with it because I did not feel like arguing with cops who I assume they were new or rookies based on how they were to me aggressively, they drove me near the FWFN somewhere in the highway and left me there to walk home in a minus cold winter night with a wind chill. That was many moons ago and I still remember it clearly. I never made a complaint or lawsuits, or anything because the police involved told me that they have done this alot and It will go no where without strong evidence, plus they said that no one would believe a Savage like me, etc.. and I believed them. One of these days I will make a complaint or lawsuit but I have a strong feeling that it will go no where because no one believes a savage.
I hope Star is okay. She seemed like such a lovely, sensitive and caring soul and she had so much pain inside her. This was filmed 13 years ago so I hope she has been able to find peace.
Wow the kid's need to put down their phones already!!!! I'm surprised that the school does not restrict cell phone use during their time in the classroom where they should be focusing on the teacher and learning. Saw two kids already on their phones in less then 7 minutes into the video.
The adults are certainly spinning their wheels and the students do not appear to care. Their families, their home environments seem to have a negative influence on their lives. Their level of communication tells me their parents are not contributing much to their children's success.
Sylvia Alexander Denial victim blaming Denial victim blamingDenial victim blaming... Is it so hard to admit that the perpertrators were non-indigenous?
And most northern kids undisciplined. I worked at youth centre it was a chore to get them do chores as well. Sad though. I guess that’s the damage done by residential schools.
The reservation system and the Indian Act has failed these people terribly. Why can’t we figure out a better way? The culture is broken and so far nothing has worked to fix it. I’m not a total outsider. I grew up near a northern Ontario reservation. Most of my friends were natives. I also lived on a reservation with a spouse for three years. It seems worse now than in the 70s when I was a kid. I don’t have the answers but I know nothing has worked so far.
If cops were more transparent about the deaths and let the public know about the on going situation. I myself wasn't aware and just assumed the students went missing and ended up going home. I attended dfc during 3 of those deaths.By past experiences with the police of tbay I wouldn't be looking at them for help.Instead I would be investigating them.1 person I would ask to look into this would be Noreen Renier. She had past success with 2 student murders in Tbay waay back there's a lil documentary about it
Idk how big that town is, but maybe ban the sale of alcohol all together? that's a very common practice in smaller college towns in the U.S. Also, why don't they have extra curricular activities for the kids so school isn't prison but a somewhat enjoyable experience?? I feel like these kids slip through the cracks of this terribly planned system and it is upsetting.
Theres some wonderful comments on here but also some really insensitive ones. Please learn about the impact of trauma due to residential schools and how that is passed through genetics and through intergenerational trauma.
Have there been any success stories? Anyone who has stopped drinking and taking Oxi? We have a long history - centuries and amazing culture but all I hear from my brothers and sisters is talk about smoking, drinking and drugging.
Yeah aye? wheres the good stories? always about being a victim. How can we be proud as a people always promoting our youth this victimized mindset? ffs
I used to legit believe my brother had the makings of a serial killer. Sounds outlandish I know, but between a messed up relationship with his mother to his love of killing animals when he was younger to his obsession with fires, it's not as far out as it seems. His comments to me 2 years ago how more young aboriginals from the reserve are dying and how people won't miss them. We're both registered with Fort William reserve so it's not like it's racism.
Who does the subtitles for these doco's? There are some hilariously bad translations....funny for a fluent english speaker, but i would imagine it would be totally confusing for anyone else...
I feel for all these kids, I know what it is like to fight the need to smoke and drink is like and I am 40 and I struggle daily, I can’t imagine the struggle for them. My heart is breaking as I watch this :(
The greatest issue that cops and natives fear, is natives do NOT welcome cops on the reserve, a lot are armed and the cops cant do anything as it's crown land. This has turned the cops off, and as you see with all of these inestigations, NO ONE co operates, or pushes, they ask then wait...... Some natives weren't paying their hydro or cable dues, and when the company went to cut them off, they were shot at. there needs to have a new set of treaties, modern ones that apply to current 2016 these treaties were signed prior to natives having the capacity to read, despite it was their land, theyve had to assimilte to US instead of us to thejm. also these were signed at pow wows where the crown reps ensured they were all drunk, somehting they didn't know, fire water, the crown knew they were drunk . anyways, the only way to reconciliation, is the old treaties getting ripped up, and new ones drafted, with lawyers on gov't sides , native sides AND a mediatin. Than everyone will get satisfaction. Everyone, I'm not comfy wit h what my ancestors did. However we've paid millions in compensation already, I stood with the native at OKA wehn the city tried expanding the golf course over a native resting spot for the dead. We won that fight, thankfully. anyways, finally trudeau is looking into the deaths of the missing and murdreeed
Nothing will change if the natives don't accept responsibility for their actions! They keep getting drunk and sitting at waters end and fall in and drown.
Lindsey Matthews oh please you all keep yourselves down with that mentality! Get off your high horse and do something to change your circumstance! There is a chief out in BC who said the exact same thing to his people! Stop whine and DO SOMETHING, stop blaming others for your own troubles! He changed his reserve with that mentality! Stop blaming others.
It’s that simple is it Richard, you should be a politician. Have you any empathy for what First Nations peoples have had to endure. They are tougher than you’ll ever be.
You seriously lack compassion and empathy. Like I agree we need to take control and better our lives but you said it in the most rude way. And I bet you’re the type to say “oh get over it” regarding residential schools, you people don’t get how traumatic it was and how it affects generations. You don’t know what it’s like to live in isolation with no clean water, no schools nothing. So instead of shaming people maybe try and be understanding of what they’re going through and WHY they battle addictions.
Yes, its called epigenetics and intergenerational trauma. Trauma is hard wired into our DNA and we pass it on. Theyve proved even during pregnancy what the mother endures is imprinted on the fetus.
Not to be heartless but uh.., this whole thing is about high schoolers getting drunk/high and *falling in a river?* Or _POSSIBLY_ committing suicide in the river? That seems like a pretty strange and niche problem to have.
Probably something for Palin, or the other one; aggression from the enemny, we assume. - The alien, again. Maybe dismiss teachers, a new one, or the rector, or the police - whoever invaded the community and got a job, and came from abroad. Alike in the movies : Hitchcock's Birds, and etc.
1.leaving home at 16 years old? what parent's kids have not? 2.supervision yes, but do these young adults listen? 3.blaming these deaths on alcohol is a cop out, the root is the problem. 4.the Cdn.government should stop saying sorry and giving money out for their deaths or lives. 5.work and earn your way through life and be responsible. 6.7 kids in 10 years? check stats out about other deaths in schools around the city.
Stefanie Eva well because there are a lot of problems in their communities such as drugs, gangs, etc. that they are vulnerable to and the teachers just want to make sure they don’t fall victim to these
Nothing is wrong with them…go live on a reserve and find out what it’s like and how it can impact someone. Being away from family, dealing with depression and anxiety and other issues is hard. But you probably don’t know that bc you’re prob a privileged white girl that has never experienced anything like they have.
in terms of skin and teeth etc, sure...but their features is what i meant. they look like puffins (that's a coastal bird) they're not an attractive people.
@@DuaneChipman you’re one to talk look in the mirror your personality &face is awful…. After watching this video that’s what you have to say? You’re only comment is a judgment on natives appearance? you do see what’s wrong with that right
Canadians are so lucky to have an investigative show with guts to address difficult or painful issues. Don't let it end.
Why do village kids have to go to a city to study? Why can't the schools be located in central First Nations places more familiar & closer to home? Is this painful & risky system really the best possible? Can anyone give me an educated answer? Kids don't pretend to be in this kind of pain -- it's heartbreaking even to see it. Time to make a better way.
+flyinspirals
We did that already.
The residential schools, and the nightmare they created continues by way of these kids drinking themselves to death due to the fractured families they come from.
@@flyinspiralsthe government prefers people to be in bigger cities because when you’re in a city you’re easier to control.
wow,amazing work that the teachers and school staff do. i wish all teachers would have one percent of that interest and care about their students.
Great documentary!!!
The youth are great. I moved to Thunder Bay with my family many years ago after graduating college in the States.
Being Native myself and being an overcomer over a lot of demons in my past my, heart hurt for these beautiful people.
But there are some leaders who are the puppet masters.
Sad, but if your native but not from the same nation or treaty you are not respected, trashed by the puppet masters and not allowed in the circle.
Politicians have no skin colour... All are abusive, narcissistic
Boy they can sell themselves
I wish cbc would investigate the way native leadership works and operates, usually run by the same families on and off reserve.
Sorry ya'll have the same problems. The ones who want to have the power to control others will always be around. This is so sad.
Thank you so much! We are watching this in the Onajigawin Indigenous Program with Confeceration College! I decided to do my assignment on this one! Miigwech.
God bless the grandmother , very hard to watch. I cried so much...
Listening to her talk to her little brother is heart breaking 🙏🏽
The cop panel that effectively yawned in front of Jordan’s grandmother. Cold, indifferent, even Olympian disdain. AND....the cop panel knew they were being filmed! That’s a callousness that comes from as a d n a level belief that 1st nation people are irrelevant.
And the school system itself .............is to me almost equally cold. They emphasize the rules and rigid expectations with a quiet ferocity that even made me uncomfortable just watching it. Heartless bureaucrats that could be way way more supportive. Scheeeeeeesh
I am coming to Thunder Bay from the film makers appearance on Useful Idiots.
This makes me sick. Police in Thunderbay don’t even TRY to hide their prejudice The entire police dept needs to be overhauled. Clean it out. Shouldn’t the police dept reflect the community? So why are there not more First Nation people actually in the police force?? Maybe that would be a first step & maybe knowing this prejudice is happening. Maybe when crimes happen against First Nation people maybe a special group should be started just to check to make sure those are handled properly!!
January 2019, the Thunder Bay Police department was being investigated. That was a 3 year investigation to show improvement and if they would change by 3 years. It is now 3 years after. January 22 2022. Find out if the Police department has been defunded. Search UA-cam. You'll find the news video that was involved. Good luck in reconciliation.
Thank you for uploading the whole story!
Sorry about that, for some reason on our first upload, the end got cut off.
Intergenerational Trauma is definitely a factor that is playing in all of this. The colonization of First Nations People into Residential Schools, and other injustices that were perpetuated upon them by the Government, have done a lot of damage to many First Nations People. We must make known, and forgive. Not make known, and sit in the pity pot. Healing comes only when we forgive.
I agree….. I think many younger generation are opening their eyes. Feeling healing and repairing themselves to move forward speak out loud and make changes
Who is most accountable when the parent or adult fails to earn the trust of the child? Is the adult more responsible, or the child?
Apparently, in a few minutes the Fifth Estate team is able to earn the trust of these children to speak their hearts while parents and popular culture are still failing after years.
The police clearly don’t care! The one guy was smiling at the beginning. Just horrible!!!!!
You obviously don't live in Thunder Bay , it's getting pretty sickening all of them saying the the T Bay Police are Racist , when it's the other way around . I've been attacked for no reason , and you can imagine what one night looks like for a police officer here .
I tell you, I have lived here all my life,my best friend was native,we have lived with natives all our lives,WE DO NOT NEED, W5 OR THE MEDIA ,TO TELL US WHATS WHAT,I am sick and tired of the way this city is being portrayed by the media,alot of people feel the same,I no longer believe ANYTHING coming from the media.......
My heart breaks for our people 😔💔
This breaks my heart... I can’t stop bawling my eyes out. I’m proud of each and every one of the kids in this video.
Diosa La negra stop crying. This is a happy story
Jeffrey Lundberg my best friend from childhood is Cree from Moosonee. I grew up in Toronto running the streets and in and out of her complex that is run by Native Child and Family. The emotions are complex, being a person of colour this story brings up many feelings.
Beautiful words
My friend has since died. RIP Sandra Matthews our Sassy 🥹❤️
I saw another documentary and they were saying how a lot of times it’s indigenous men who seek out the women when they’re young and show them “love” and attention and end up turning them out. I thought that was interesting bc you never hear about anything other than “bad things are happening bc of non-indigenous ppl” and yes that is partly true but quite often, it’s the men within their own community who take advantage of them starting at a very young age
The poor Gramma not getting answers how Jordon paased away. Put tears in my eyes. So many young children drown drinking. I hope the teachers can help the kids.🇨🇦💓🙏🇨🇦
Teachers are really caring for these students... Thats fantastic!
I didnt know you could have drinks on class! Here is REALLY forbidden.
What a sad situation for such a soft spoken and quiet people. The last time I looked Canada was not a Third World country, so why are so many of its folk treated in such an inhumane way? I appreciate that there's a possible bonus getting these children away from a society where drugs and drink play such an important role in daily life. But they are taken out of an environment they understand and put into another they find hard to adjust to. The answer must be to make schooling better nearer home and to do something to improve quality of life in their own communities. This probably means meaningful employment and better services, but it would pay dividends I'm sure. As the school head said: It wouldn't be tolerated in Hamilton, but then most of the pupils there are not First Nation.
You answered your question. Drugs and drink. No matter how much money, time, and effort has been spent on trying to do something with northern reserves *nothing* is ever accomplished except more of the same. People have to want to change. When that happens, they will.
White supremacy... don't act brand new.
lots of love for these people
The Gov. Abused and tore families apart and are still not honoring treaties from centuries ago. No wonder the natives are so bitter and some are broken.... makes me sick!
This is crazy! Thunder Bay has a lot of racism issues, I visit there often and I am from Red Lake, I remember I was walking home from the bar at night, during my walk back to my hotel Super 8 the police ended up arresting me for public intoxication but I wasn't even intoxicated to the level of being arrested but I so I just brushed it off and went with it because I did not feel like arguing with cops who I assume they were new or rookies based on how they were to me aggressively, they drove me near the FWFN somewhere in the highway and left me there to walk home in a minus cold winter night with a wind chill. That was many moons ago and I still remember it clearly.
I never made a complaint or lawsuits, or anything because the police involved told me that they have done this alot and It will go no where without strong evidence, plus they said that no one would believe a Savage like me, etc.. and I believed them.
One of these days I will make a complaint or lawsuit but I have a strong feeling that it will go no where because no one believes a savage.
I hope Star is okay. She seemed like such a lovely, sensitive and caring soul and she had so much pain inside her. This was filmed 13 years ago so I hope she has been able to find peace.
Wow the kid's need to put down their phones already!!!! I'm surprised that the school does not restrict cell phone use during their time in the classroom where they should be focusing on the teacher and learning. Saw two kids already on their phones in less then 7 minutes into the video.
This particular teaching program relies heavily on devices. Lacking money for a tablet the school will put data time on a student's phone.
Not only that but have a heart man there 100+ miles away from there family
The adults are certainly spinning their wheels and the students do not appear to care. Their families, their home environments seem to have a negative influence on their lives. Their level of communication tells me their parents are not contributing much to their children's success.
Sylvia Alexander Denial victim blaming Denial victim blamingDenial victim blaming... Is it so hard to admit that the perpertrators were non-indigenous?
@@Stichting_NoFa-p Non-indigenous people don't seem to be the source of problems from what I have seen here.
As of March 2022, sudden deaths of indigenous people continue to haunt the community. What is going on ?
Rip Jordan Wabasse. 💓
And most northern kids undisciplined. I worked at youth centre it was a chore to get them do chores as well. Sad though. I guess that’s the damage done by residential schools.
The reservation system and the Indian Act has failed these people terribly. Why can’t we figure out a better way? The culture is broken and so far nothing has worked to fix it. I’m not a total outsider. I grew up near a northern Ontario reservation. Most of my friends were natives. I also lived on a reservation with a spouse for three years. It seems worse now than in the 70s when I was a kid. I don’t have the answers but I know nothing has worked so far.
If cops were more transparent about the deaths and let the public know about the on going situation. I myself wasn't aware and just assumed the students went missing and ended up going home. I attended dfc during 3 of those deaths.By past experiences with the police of tbay I wouldn't be looking at them for help.Instead I would be investigating them.1 person I would ask to look into this would be Noreen Renier. She had past success with 2 student murders in Tbay waay back there's a lil documentary about it
I'm from Thunder Bay....native kids have it fairly tough..drugs..alcoholic..etc
Idk how big that town is, but maybe ban the sale of alcohol all together? that's a very common practice in smaller college towns in the U.S. Also, why don't they have extra curricular activities for the kids so school isn't prison but a somewhat enjoyable experience?? I feel like these kids slip through the cracks of this terribly planned system and it is upsetting.
Adam Sothen Thunder Bay has a pop of over 100,000 but good idea
How about Thunder Bay bans idiots, Tyler? Guess who's getting shipped out
These are SHAMANIC PEOPLE sacred to Earth. ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
It's hilarious how racist this post is lmao
Prayers for the family for answers and justice. Greetings from the USA. Hope everyone had a good day.
Theres some wonderful comments on here but also some really insensitive ones. Please learn about the impact of trauma due to residential schools and how that is passed through genetics and through intergenerational trauma.
So what's the answer?
That was a crazy ghetto weed smoking contraption they were using.
In T Bay , we called it a Lung . I hated them though , way too harsh .
Yup its a lung
Have there been any success stories? Anyone who has stopped drinking and taking Oxi? We have a long history - centuries and amazing culture but all I hear from my brothers and sisters is talk about smoking, drinking and drugging.
Yeah aye? wheres the good stories? always about being a victim. How can we be proud as a people always promoting our youth this victimized mindset? ffs
Police in Thunderbird Bay shame on you!
I used to legit believe my brother had the makings of a serial killer. Sounds outlandish I know, but between a messed up relationship with his mother to his love of killing animals when he was younger to his obsession with fires, it's not as far out as it seems. His comments to me 2 years ago how more young aboriginals from the reserve are dying and how people won't miss them. We're both registered with Fort William reserve so it's not like it's racism.
Who does the subtitles for these doco's? There are some hilariously bad translations....funny for a fluent english speaker, but i would imagine it would be totally confusing for anyone else...
they're automated, and really inaccurate.
These kids have too much freedom at the school.
Who do the children stay with when the go to school? Do they have guardians?
They’re placed in the foster system.
This makes me so sad. They have no hope. My great grandma and grandma were not raised on reservations they had better. Married white men
I feel for all these kids, I know what it is like to fight the need to smoke and drink is like and I am 40 and I struggle daily, I can’t imagine the struggle for them. My heart is breaking as I watch this :(
How far is Rockybay ? That’s where my late friend was from .
The greatest issue that cops and natives fear, is natives do NOT welcome cops on the reserve, a lot are armed and the cops cant do anything as it's crown land. This has turned the cops off, and as you see with all of these inestigations, NO ONE co operates, or pushes, they ask then wait...... Some natives weren't paying their hydro or cable dues, and when the company went to cut them off, they were shot at. there needs to have a new set of treaties, modern ones that apply to current 2016 these treaties were signed prior to natives having the capacity to read, despite it was their land, theyve had to assimilte to US instead of us to thejm. also these were signed at pow wows where the crown reps ensured they were all drunk, somehting they didn't know, fire water, the crown knew they were drunk . anyways, the only way to reconciliation, is the old treaties getting ripped up, and new ones drafted, with lawyers on gov't sides , native sides AND a mediatin. Than everyone will get satisfaction. Everyone, I'm not comfy wit h what my ancestors did. However we've paid millions in compensation already, I stood with the native at OKA wehn the city tried expanding the golf course over a native resting spot for the dead. We won that fight, thankfully. anyways, finally trudeau is looking into the deaths of the missing and murdreeed
Seriously most went and got drunk and drowned! Who's fault is it?
Nothing will change if the natives don't accept responsibility for their actions! They keep getting drunk and sitting at waters end and fall in and drown.
Lindsey Matthews oh please you all keep yourselves down with that mentality! Get off your high horse and do something to change your circumstance! There is a chief out in BC who said the exact same thing to his people! Stop whine and DO SOMETHING, stop blaming others for your own troubles! He changed his reserve with that mentality! Stop blaming others.
It’s that simple is it Richard, you should be a politician. Have you any empathy for what First Nations peoples have had to endure. They are tougher than you’ll ever be.
You seriously lack compassion and empathy. Like I agree we need to take control and better our lives but you said it in the most rude way. And I bet you’re the type to say “oh get over it” regarding residential schools, you people don’t get how traumatic it was and how it affects generations. You don’t know what it’s like to live in isolation with no clean water, no schools nothing. So instead of shaming people maybe try and be understanding of what they’re going through and WHY they battle addictions.
If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem
I am starting to wonder if there is a genetic component to the pervasive depression in this community.
Yes, its called epigenetics and intergenerational trauma. Trauma is hard wired into our DNA and we pass it on. Theyve proved even during pregnancy what the mother endures is imprinted on the fetus.
@KillerCammy85 so how do you change it?
Oh I see they have boarding parents...❤️
first they shud not allowed phone in classroom
Drink it up!
Canada is sure a nice place eh
Oh my lord to painfull
I'm frist nation's and I have to go to this high school I'm scared to go cuz my dad murdered someone in that jail and I got beat up
The reserve we have here don’t like other reserves done deal
I just can't watch this..its so wrong
Thunder Bay is not a safe city.
If you don't get drunk and high and hang around rivers all night, it's the safest city in the world
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MY FRIEND TAMMY SHE DIED TOO!FROM THE BRIDGE😭😭😭
Jásmine Wińterr so sorry to hear that. RIP Tammy.
get all the kids off reserves!
Not to be heartless but uh.., this whole thing is about high schoolers getting drunk/high and *falling in a river?*
Or _POSSIBLY_ committing suicide in the river?
That seems like a pretty strange and niche problem to have.
Probably something for Palin, or the other one; aggression from the enemny, we assume. - The alien, again. Maybe dismiss teachers, a new one, or the rector, or the police - whoever invaded the community and got a job, and came from abroad. Alike in the movies : Hitchcock's Birds, and etc.
Prayers
WestSide OutLaws 23.19
they look mexican
Hello 2020
1.leaving home at 16 years old? what parent's kids have not?
2.supervision yes, but do these young adults listen?
3.blaming these deaths on alcohol is a cop out, the root is the problem.
4.the Cdn.government should stop saying sorry and giving money out for their deaths or lives.
5.work and earn your way through life and be responsible.
6.7 kids in 10 years? check stats out about other deaths in schools around the city.
Sandy lake.....sassakamoose?
Who byes them alcohol?
Why are these kids treated as if they were special needs? What's wrong with them?
Stefanie Eva well because there are a lot of problems in their communities such as drugs, gangs, etc. that they are vulnerable to and the teachers just want to make sure they don’t fall victim to these
Nothing is wrong with them…go live on a reserve and find out what it’s like and how it can impact someone. Being away from family, dealing with depression and anxiety and other issues is hard. But you probably don’t know that bc you’re prob a privileged white girl that has never experienced anything like they have.
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Who needs to go to school school sucks
propably cops
Probably you
I think the same
For some reason I really dont think anyone that lives in Thunder bay cares if they all go to school on the reserves. LOL
jesus...rough for everyone. they could show hundreds of "first nation" people and maybe a handful aren't awful looking lmfao
in terms of skin and teeth etc, sure...but their features is what i meant. they look like puffins (that's a coastal bird) they're not an attractive people.
@@DuaneChipman for me neither but we have different standards, for Japanese people we were also ugly.
@@DuaneChipman you’re one to talk look in the mirror your personality &face is awful…. After watching this video that’s what you have to say? You’re only comment is a judgment on natives appearance? you do see what’s wrong with that right
They should stop dressing like thugs and gangster, they should be proud of who they are and take pride in their appearance
Hard to have pride when it was beat out of them by the settlers. The deep rooted trauma and shame has followed down the family line.
They have a HS in Deer Lake. An internet high school, media like to twist stuff around.
Lol 4-5 years ago they probably didn’t. As this was posted 4-5 years ago