The Canadian Residential School Documentary 

I'm glad my mom didn't die there. Those that lived, lived hard.

How ironic, savages calling us aboriginal peoples savages.

Now you have to add 215 bodies that just got discovered in May of 2021

I was not alive when these schools were running, but I feel so awful for this. My country, which is supposedly loving and accepting, has done unspeakable things to innocent children and families for over a century. To all the sufferers of this cultural genocide, I am so, so sorry.

just to be clear, for everyone reading comments and whatnot, the deaths were documented deaths. there's possibly thousands more undocumented deaths, we recently found 215 children's bodies buried in kamloops british columbia at a residential school. we're trying to call for the government to check each and every one of those residential schools to let those children find home. just think about it - that was only ONE residential school, there's 140 residential schools! those poor souls. - an ojibway/cree first nations woman living in saskatchewan, canada.

Such brutality towards indigenous people by so called Nuns and Fathers is shameful, cruel and evil.

This is disturbing I can’t believe I’m just learning about this and finding it out at first from tiktok , and the finding of the remains of those kids 😓

I'm outraged by the role of Roman Catholic Church in this crime!

Sad looking into history. The world is so diseased and corrupt. I'm glad I have no children... I definitely wouldn't want to bring a child into what this world has become.

This is the work of demons not holy men as the church Claims that they are we should all be reevaluating our values about church and state

How can they say that they wanted to civilized some one when they were not civilized themselves.

This knowledge has been known for decades but they chose now to put emphasis on this. Why didn't they take action in the past ?

People hide behind God to do evil sad.

OK Canada, the world is watching. Bad as the consequences have been, are, upon native people in Canada. I am absolutely astounded at the strength and resilience of so many native Canadians. In the same manner that Jewish people don't let people forget the horrors of the holocaust, brought it to broad attention. Native Canadians must tell their story, over, and over, and over. Especially since their stories are not only stories of survival, but stories of how different tribes can in fact co-exist. (A lesson so many people would benefit from: Israel, China, Russia, etc.)

Im outraged.....what the Chatolic church did to this indegenous society is cruel....unforgiveable.....all the injustice, wrongdoings done by this chatolic church to this indigenous society is disgraceful....damn....im so furious

Im glad that you made this kind of video. There are so many who have no clue about this sort of thing. And the sad truth is that there were far more of these schools in america and they were as bad or worse.

Ok! Who the hell disliked?!

Wow. This reminds me of something North Korea and Kim Jong-un would do to their population.

So very sad ...I'm ready for a change I'm ready to see all the children found and return to the family's..may all the children rest in peace...amen ...and thank u mother nature who I belive would be there God. Not 100% sure but I know from what I learned...they was treated unfair ..beaten ..killed..starved . And sounds like a total nightmare...may everyone who effected find peace with this change ...national wide ...I'm from Canada and I'm personally sorry to all the children what happend to u was not right. It isn't okey and they must pay .and to the survivors I pray you find healing and peace knowing ur own be found and u can burrie them with ur people 🙏 praying for u all

And yet our oppressor says they love us but the bible says they have a perpetual hatred for Jacob. As soon as we stand up biblically for ourselves Esau the European gets so mad bc they know they of the devil seed

It makes me cringe just the thought of these monsters that held the Bible in their hands to cover their devil ways. My heart will cry for a long time for all these lost souls . Being a mother of two beautiful children...This hits me hard and I hold them tight. Having someone walk in my home and forcefully take my children away is every parents nightmare 😭💔 ANY GOVERNMENT AROUND THE WORLD THAT DID THIS OR IS STILL DOING THIS ....SHAME ON YOU !!! IM DISGUSTED WITH SOME HUMANS THAT COME TO THIS WORLD TO JUST HURT AND CAUSE SO MUCH PAIN TO OTHERS. RACISM BREAKS MY HEART. 💔

Why am I not surprised the Catholic church was all up in this. 😡

Justins daddy was Prime Minister twice when some of this was going on. And now Junior claims to care, but sure doesn't do much to show it.

This is an atrocity on all levels. Invade their homeland, break up their families, send them away to these "schools" and make them feel shame for who they really were. What good is an apology after all the trauma they caused? Cut them a check and give them medical AND mental health benefits. I said what I said.

Please do interviews of the survivors please?

Colonized ...How sad

Wow iam so disappointed 😭😠my heart is broken

My heart aches for the FNs. Every First Nation person is in my thoughts, a path of healing this trauma is utmost importance at this time ❤️

Irony is it's happening now in India and World is not concerned

The simple fact we are seeking reconciliation and healing not revenge lets you know who the true savages are

Nice video! Keep up the good work!

i am curious, why do we never hear from the administrators of the residential schools, and, why did our government believe that indiginous children should be brought into mainstream society?

Horror!

Excuse me, can you make the story of The Chessboard killer and The 7/7 London Bombing.

Good episode! 😍 keep it uo

WHY.... YOU EVILS DOGS 👿👿👿👿

The so-called aboriginal people were genociding and enslaving each other long before the Europeans showed up. The slaves that didn't learn the language and adjust to the customs of their captors had horrible lives. Some of them were killed during ceremonies and eaten. No apologies or compensation was ever offered or given.

It feels like story of most people 😢

Calgary Sun article: This Calgary Sun article tells some staggering truths and historical facts. I hope you are open-minded enough to make an objective read. I will add one interesting fact - since 1946 the Canadian Government has spent $3,300,000,000,000.00 - that is 3.3 TRILLION on Indian Affairs with NO RETURN on the investment. This should be reading material for ALL Canadians. This article is correct. Some very interesting statistics for each individual to consider but anyone with a background knows this to be true already! The fact is that the bleeding hearts and vote mongering Politicians don't want the general public to know this, so let's spread it around! Judging from an article in The Calgary Sun entitled "Enough is Enough", a National Inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women is NOT what needs to be done and Harper was right in not pursuing this time wasting expensive suggestion supported by both the NDP and Liberals. Chief Ronald Morin of the Enoch band west of Edmonton is paid $750,000.00 per year by the federal government (YOU). He spends winters at his winter home in Las Vegas, 4 car garage & swimming pool. Not all the people in his band live like kings. Still every Chief of an Indian Band in Canada makes more than our Prime Minister. Harper brought in the "Accountability Act" so that these Chiefs would have to tell their band members and the rest of us where the money was being spent. It is the taxpayers' money and we have the right to know where all this money is going. One of Trudeau's first acts as Prime Minister was to throw out the "Accountability Act”. If you were paying attention at all and did your research you would understand this tragedy, the real issues and what needs to be done to address them. Some statistics: • According to the RCMP: Out of 6,420 missing persons in Canada 1,455 are women, of those 164 are aboriginal. • 88% of murders of aboriginal women have been solved by police • 89% of murders of non-aboriginal women have been solved by police • Between 1980 and 2012 there were 20,313 murders in Canada. • 6,551 of those victims were women and 1,017 of those were aboriginal women. Here's where it gets even more interesting: • Almost 30% of the 1,017 aboriginal women were murdered by their husbands. • 23% were murdered by another family member. • 30% were murdered by an acquaintance. • So, only about 8% of aboriginal women were murdered by strangers. More statistics: • 44% of the family members and acquaintances who kill aboriginal women were drunk. • 74% of the murderers of aboriginal women are unemployed. AND NOW THE MOST SHOCKING: • 71% of the murderers of aboriginal women already had a criminal record. • 53% had been convicted before of a violent crime. • 62% had a history of violence with the specific murder victim herself. To be clear, there are some Chiefs and aboriginal communities in this country that are doing well, for various reasons, but much of it has to do with their leadership. Chief Clarence Louie of the Osoyoos Indian Band is an excellent example of quality leadership, but no one (especially the media & government) ever talk about him and his people. Here are the REAL issues: 1. Welfare. The billions of tax payer dollars that go to support aboriginal people, not only in living expenses but free education, free medical, no taxation, etc. has crippled them (as it has crippled many non-aboriginal Canadians for generations). I would venture to say many of them have not worked a day in their lives. 2. Corrupt leadership who have no idea how to lead, manage, inspire or teach their people .... who take for themselves and their families and friends and are not accountable to anyone (as evidenced most strongly by Chief Theresa Spence in Attawapiskat.) and blame, blame, blame the Canadian Government. 3. Alcohol and drug abuse, gang violence .... all contributing factors in the crime rate on reserves, lack of parenting, family violence and poverty. 4. A two-tiered justice system that gives aboriginal offenders lighter sentences, or no sentences at all, allowing them back into their communities to continue to abuse the same aboriginal women again and again .... often resulting in death (as evidenced by the 83% who were murdered by their husbands, a family member or an acquaintance). If you want a National Inquiry .... it should be on this issue. When you say "It is inconceivable that we, as a country, allowed this situation to continue" .... and "We urgently need to acknowledge the systemic aspect of this crisis instead of ignoring or dismissing it. " What are your intended solutions?" A National Inquiry is not going to fix these problems! Giving the aboriginals more of hard-earned Canadian taxpayer dollars is NOT going to fix this problem! WHAT ARE REAL SOLUTIONS TO THE REAL ISSUES? Let's get this straight. This land does not belong to them and they never were a 'Nation'. These people's ancestors did not just appear in North America, magically out of thin air one day 40 or 50,000 years ago. They came in waves across the land/ice bridge from Asia. What's more, these waves, in many cases, were not related groups of people. They came from various places around North Eastern Asia and were from different genetic strains. In other words, the "natives of North America" are not a homogenous group of people and more importantly... they are immigrants too. Like millions of immigrants today. The idea that the "natives" were peaceful caretakers of the land or benevolent tenants couldn't be further from the truth. The various tribes right across Canada warred on each other constantly. They were violent. Want proof? Ask the Hurons ... oh, that's right you can't. The Iroquois' wiped them out. How about slavery that was rife among all the first nation tribes until the Europeans came and freed the slaves and put an end to this "valued cultural tradition". Is slavery peaceful and humane? The idea that we "stole" this land from them is also ridiculous. A more technologically advanced and numerous culture invaded and conquered. This is exactly what has been happening since the dawn of humanity all around the globe. To say we "stole" their lands is just plain wrong. That is akin to saying the Saxons should return England to the Angles. Or maybe we should launch a campaign to have the Roman descendants give Italy back to the Etruscans. It is a nonsensical notion driven by the politically correct bleeding hearts, some intellectually deficient politicians and pressure on the Government from lobbying groups. Also by the Indian people. It will continue to cost this country needless and wasted trillions until we get some backbone and turn off the taps. Are these people in trouble? Yes. Do they need help? Yes. Are they responsible enough to look after themselves and efficiently spend the billions that tax payers give them? CERTAINLY NOT! The only way to fix this situation is to bring them into society as equals. Getting jobs and paying taxes like the rest of us because in reality, they are no more special than any of the other numerous cultures that now call Canada home.

I’ve been for two decades trying to find out information on Lena Julian my great grandmother my grandfather never knew where she was actually born n she would not really speak to him about many things but we come from Avery county North Carolina carter county Tn and Pennsylvania He said she was Cherokee n an orphan n a German immigrant man n wife teaching at the school adopted her n she never saw any of her family ever again He said she was Cherokee n he could say her name in Cherokee My sister thinks I’m wrong but my grandfather never lied to me he even mentioned his mother had to wear something ontop of head at school which i still don’t understand I’m Not even sure residential schools were here in the south She married a French immigrant Cain Julian n I’m not sure how many children she had I believe 2 boys n one past away at 5 the other my paw but her husband had children w a pier wife I found her tombstone which my paw told me her birthdate on her stone is a lie says she was older she passed away in 1960 and still to this day I think about her n my grandfather so much I miss him a lot!!

I want to thank you for making and uploading this video. .....BUT, for the opposite reason I suppose you'd like me to praise your work. Even though you are a critic of these indigenous boarding schools, you provided no evidence of genocide or monstrous abuse of the children forced to attend them. (And, virtually ALL children are subject to COMPULSORY education by somebody -- usually their parents, and often the legal authorities.) The "cultural genocide" inflicted upon these indigenous children is no different that the "cultural genocide" inflicted on any Italian, Polish, Jewish, German -- any non-Anglo-Saxon European immigrant kid who went to any state-supported school in Canada (or the U.S.). .....ALL were subjected to assimilation programs (it was known as "Americanization", here, in the U.S.). The major difference, of course, was that the Italian kid (or Jewish kid or Chinese kid or German kid) could go home to his family, after school, and receive the "old country [or old religion]" education there. While at the American public school, the Italian-American or east European Jewish American kid was taught essentially WASP (White Anglosaxon Protestant) values. I'm quite sure that Euro-Canadian kids were subject to compulsory school attendance laws as their counterparts in the USA. Were THEY not punished for using Italian or Yiddish in school rather than English? Were THEY not subject to corporal punishment? Should Italian-Americans or Polish-Canadians clamor for civil damage awards form the government also? ....Add on to the above fact, the FURTHER fact that "Indians" who were stilling living in their tribal ways and not conforming to the laws of Canada (and thus occasionally attacking pioneers, stealing horses and livestock, etc.) were regarded as a kind of internal enemy populace; and thus were subject to the kind of policies inflicted upon "enemy aliens" -- internment camps (which, in this case, were the "reserves" or "reservations" as they are called in the U.S.) and the forced separation of "enemy alien children" for special education which would ensure that they are brought up in the values of the victors in this struggle. However, was the treatment of these children any significantly different than the treatment of children in orphanages and other such institutions, such as those boarding schools for children from destitute households or households of internal enemies of law and order? (The unmarked graves? Not "mass graves" as reported earlier. Are there not neglected cemeteries and forgotten graves in many other parts of Canada and the USA? Was there a higher rate of childhood disease and death at THESE boarding schools than at orphanages, and other boarding institutions for kids from destitute Euro-Canadian families? ....Was there, really? Has any media outlet checked the figures?) "Cultural genocide" is a meaningless concept. Indeed, that rhetorical term could be an attack on any and all progress by education -- such as to replace superstition with a respect for logic and science, or the assimilation of a relatively isolated and backward ethnicity with a larger demographic which has a more advanced culture. (German kids living in Alsace, France were PUNISHED if they used German in school after World War II. "Cultural genocide?") The shouts of "cultural genocide" is an attack on the process of civilizational advancement. Its underlying premise is "all cultures are of equal value!" (which is the essence of the so-called multiculturalism ideology). It's only convincing with people who forget that CULTURE is a state of mind -- NOT a racial identity. (Culture is the sum of ideas and customs and practices. It is NOT tied to one's genes.) Not all ideas (or practices) are of equal value to human flourishing; so, it is not true that all cultures are "equal". The most I can sympathize with the thesis of this video (and others like it) is that these schools could be said to have been incompetently managed. (Oh, and that there was a higher mortality rate for children from poorer families -- which is true across the board regardless of ethnicity. Boarding schools for destitute children tended to suck in those days.) But, what about the very purpose of "Indian schools"? Its purpose was essentially the same as ALL schools -- to beat the savage out of the growing man or woman. What is Hannah Arendt's famous quip? "In every generation our civilization is invaded by barbarians. We call them 'chidren'."

great vid thanks!

Was parental decision for kids to attend voluntary or not??

Allama Iqbal said "You have not seen the democratic system of the West Charming face, inside darker than the Genghis Khan"

Oh good, comments enabled, that's why I came. I didn't know how much Canada has an Aushwitz history.

This is unfortunate for innocent children

I have a question: why Orthodox Unitarian Mormon and Methodist and other christian didn't get resident school. I just need answers. Also another question what happened to nun and father went they work at the residents school. I need answers

How many died in the "mourning wars"? And how many are dying today with FN being the fastest growing demographic in Canada?

Apparently most of this is fiction,

Wait what 700”

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The biggest caveman has always succeeded to manipulate a smaller one.

sigh

This is literally 1 Samuel 15:3

If you’re from the united states then why do you have a foreign accent?

I'm always enraged when I see cruelty in the name of civilization or claiming territory. Europeans did a number on the world. From colonization, claiming territories, forcing their cultures in the name of civilization, slavery, apartheid etc. Do you know what's worse, the descendants of these evil doers still occupy lands that was grabbed, own stolen properties even in countries where they are minority. So many countries in Africa have the best fertile ranches owned by descendants of colonial masters. I hate these people, hate them for what their ancestors stood for and that they still stand for it only pretending that they're not. It's infuriating. And people will turn around n say "those people bla bla bla". Forcing your culture on people is not civilization. In one way or another, people would have adopted what they liked and discarded what they didn't. Some people still hate themselves n their culture because some foreigners told them it's bad/uncivilized. People hate their names, their languages, their appearance etc and they'll tell you it's their choice but subconsciously some are influenced by "civilization". It's unfortunate that this cruelty still happens even today, just in different subtle ways and disguised as something else. It's absolutely disgusting.