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This is not an isolated incident. These schools operated all across Canada, were created specifically to "de-savage the indians", had zero accountability, and almost destroyed an entire people. These kids were taken from their parents, imprisoned in these places, and endured endless abuse for their formative years. And this went on until 1994 in some places!

This is Canada's great shame, and we've barely scratched the surface.

Arte made a very good documentary about it, but I can't remember the name atm.

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Maybe this one https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/093799-000-A/killing-the-india... ?

Yes that's the one! Thanks!

Found it on YouTube, blocked in most countries but see workaround below [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ

Whitelisted regions: AD, AT, BE, BG, BL, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GF, GP, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MF, MQ, MT, NC, NL, NO, PF, PL, PM, PT, RE, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TF, VA, WF, YT [2]

[1] downloading/streaming on VLC, mpv or whatever possible from this site: https://videocyborg.com/

[2] source: https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ

Also shared on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeXqZxr6ky9ZmT7yVuoTyGB5mMsGVgpwxC7j61...

The file downloads with a hash name, but its a .mkv container. Add the filetype to the filename once downloaded and it should play.

I watch ARTE often and I wonder why this specific video is blocked here (Canada). Do they fear that they may face repercussion from the government or some other entities?

Is this blocked too?

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/093799-000-A/killing-the-india...

Yeah that one is blocked as well.

There is also this excellent and difficult-to-watch movie about a Canadian First Nations boy who is forcibly separated from his family and raised in one of the Catholic orphanages. He has an extraordinary talent for playing hockey--this is a Canadian film after all--but that talent is squandered from all the abuse he is subjected to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Horse_(film)

There’s also a great comic book by Joe Sacco called “Paying the Land”. It’s an illustrated reportage where he travels to indigenous communities in Canada and recounts their stories. Resident schools and their destructive effects on individuals and communities are a recurring theme. I love the book, but it’s a hard read.

Not just in Canada. In the US as well.

https://smile.amazon.com/Kill-Indian-Save-Man-Residential/dp...

Almost destroyed an entire people? I think they where pretty successful in that regard.

Might makes right destroyed entire ways of life in North America.

Not just North America, all over the colonized world.

almost, but not completely. there are still First Nations tribes, they still practice their cultures, the languages are critically endangered but many still have a few (usually elder) speakers.

I volunteer working to revitalize a Pacific Northwestern Indian language. there's still hope, and still ways to help.

The Documentary film "Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket" is very sad, but it has first hand accounts from some of the former students. https://humanrights.ca/story/picking-up-the-pieces-the-makin...

> we've barely scratched the surface.

USSR had and Russia still has boarding schools for the children of the indigenous people of the North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVWOd-DsAw. I wonder if there any reckoning is to come here.

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