We were not the savages!

[WhiteStarWoman]

Well done. You know the world is slowly starting to get it? It won't be long now!

[GrowingTreeAz]

Murder, Torture, and Abuse..all to make one subservienat to rich familys.

[nvccpuller]

I was out for lunch with my uncle and was telling my kids not to talk while eating and to finish everything on there plate or they would not get desert. and my uncle said that is a residential school practices along with many other practices. we have to stop it. now we are in a situation. how do we live Indian, and survive in modern world? I will attempt to do the best with what I got, as my father did. forgive and hold no hate. learn from our past and don’t forget, practice our oral tradition

[GolanvIgvyi]

Great job! Love the way you put this together.

[rbx22]

name of first song please ????

[clam502]

@rbx22 It's is the Mi'gmaq Honour Song.

[cymbeli]

@gamerfranz You can't buy back a person's pride, sense of safety and overall happiness and contentment with a check. That is like a child molester offering his victim pizza after he's raped the kid...these scars don't fully heal. Its amazing that this took place in the 20th century......why even make laws or write a constitution....they never get followed.

[maxten]

there's an awesome sort of political cartoon in my critical thinking book. the white guy in a suit and dark glasses points to the family of a hispanic looking family and says "its time to reclaim america from illegal immigrants" and the indian guy looks at the white guy sarcastically and says "i'll help you pack".

[Viktir666]

That drum sounds great in the beginning.

[sgallentine]

Let the haters hate. It wasn't native people who took away our own culture and tried to wipe us out and everything we were, stood for, and believed. We will remain, we will triumph, and we will be strong. You have never been able to get rid of us, and you never will.

[lolavan101]

everybody shut up if you dont like it than its none of your bussness to see this

ihate you NAllen828 and rasicist ihatechocolatepeoples which means i hate black people

[drki11joy123]

Brothers and sisters, all people of Cemanahuac(western hemisphere), indigenous of these lands, the prophecy of the "Eagle and the Condor" is coming to fruition. We have to stand up for ourselves and unite! It's time to break free of our cultural enslavement and live as our ancestors once did. Learn your history, change your name and speak in the tongue of one of our glorious languages! The Maya, Mexica("aztec"), Hopi, Incas and many more prophesied our return to greatness! Keep hope alive.

[MsBlackjuice]

thank you clam502

[MsBlackjuice]

thank you clam502

[NAllen828]

And all public officials are not corrupt? Great logic. Solid Bullshit made uup of ignorant crap? When people blame a whole race for their problems.... TODAY.. they are spouting bullshit. Not every white person in Canada is in the RCMP. Your ignorance is apparent when you refer to a whole group as savages. No one on here is. Surprise! We all people and deservw fair treatement. But it's obvious that you hate whites with a passion and even 2 year olds are worth of intense racial hatred. to you.

[clam502]

Wow that's very noble of you to judge me based solely on a video and a few words typed up on a screen. That is without actually knowing me and getting to know who I am aside from a login name and a Youtube account. But going ahead with the fact that you actually don't know me, I'll say this. You have no right to even imply let alone come out and say that I hate an entire race for what their ancestors have done to mine generations ago. So take your BS and go bug someone else with it. I am done!

[naynaygallagher]

@NAllen828 what are you even doing on this sight watching this if you think its such bullshit??  keep posting clam502!!! tell the truth regardless of what these assholes write!! its all fine until someone wants to put a walmart or a prison or an alchohol and drug rehab next to his place, then he will be spouting off about how important his little 1/4 of acre is!!

[NAllen828]

What happened to natives was disgusting Clam. However it's stupid to live in fairy tales and think that all the hunter gathered societies lived in peace with each other. Anyone with any common sense would see that. The term savage is a dick move but almost all terms on based on some trouth. Scalping is a savage act and it did happen a few times. To deny that basic fact is idiocy. I am not saying all natives were like that but they were not all living in peace until the whites came.

[clam502]

So it is clear that you know so much more about First Nations than we First Nations know about our selfs. Typical of people such as your self. Your distorted knowledge (Or lackof) of First Nations peoples Is quite amusing. I would recomend you get educated or shut up. the "myth" you speak of, I'd like to see some real accredited proof. Not some racially motivated B.S. that folks such as your self believe in but real matreal that is accreditied by historians and First Nations peoples.

[sarakmac]

READ A BOOK Same name as video, by D. Paul. Then come back retract what you said since its all wrong, which any history book will confirm. Most groups did NOT attack eachother, that was very specific to certain cultural areas. They had complex civilized political & social systems. If you read up on it, you will find scalping was indeed happening, but you might want to re-read who it was who introduced it. Again, go read a book- sounds like you might have forgotten to do that, like, ever

[NAllen828]

Hmm well that's a stupid assumption. I am not saying they all attacked eachother but the myth that they all lived in peace is dumb. The french and British pitted certain groups against each other. It's a simple fact in High School Social stuides textbooks.

[R031945]

Good video . nothing like being taking to an ndn school. Msit nokamaq

[ihatechocolatepeople]

Wwant some actual facts with no bull shit. Every race has problems correct. So why do indians BLAME every problem on someone else? Tell me one problem that indians have they take responsibility for? Do indians take responsibilty for being the leading race in unemployment, crime rate, and alcohol/drug abuse? NO. But i bet they can find a way to make white people be the problem for all of this. Thats the indian way. Prove me wrong and i will apologize. If not STOP MAKING STUPID POINTLESS COMMENTS.

[sarakmac]

Wow, ihatechocolatepeople....where exactly did you get your education? Your comments are compeletely undefensible. Earlier you stated that "Indians" (Its Native, btw), blame all their problems on whites, Hmm..I wonder why? Had it not been for European contact in the 15-1600s, and their continuing paternalistic, racist, and uninformed attitudes, the First Nations of this country would not be facing the problems they face today.

[sarakmac]

Also you must be aware Inuit have taken responsibility for problems. Inuit created the ITC, a group for Inuit, by Inuit. ITC proposed the NU Land Claim Agreement (1993) & then helped create Nunavut in 99. Inuit have taken responsibility for problems brought by missionaries (white) HBC (white) & RCMP (White) ie: Alcohol, drugs, & res schools. INUIT work to solve problems (dry communities, Inuktitut Education and IQ (Traditional Inuit knowledge), aka: accept responsibility and overcome

[NAllen828]

No shit but don't blame every whitie for the problems. Is some white kid born yesterday responsible for all of it. If we keep hating each other we won't actually get anywhere. It is reasonable to hate whites if you are native. No body should deny that. But you can't blame everything on whites. Doing that won't actually make any positve change. The measures that you mentioned will mend the wounds but it will take a lot of time and effort.

[ihatechocolatepeople]

@sarakmac Almost every race in some time or another in some part of the world has undergone assimilation attempts and other bullshit. Its very unfortunate but it has happened. Yet like I always say, when the Jewish race was almost eliminated by the Nazi's they were left literally WITH NOTHING. Yet do you see the jewish race leading in crime rates, unemployment, alcohol abuse and drug abuse per percentage of population. All im saying is take responsibility for native actions TODAY.

[rockabye63]

Wow, so many hateful post. The government takes much tax from the white man, buys large homes, big cars. Throws big party's for all their friends in government. They themselves use the money on drugs & alcohol the white man introduced to the first people. Then what little is left they buy a few loafs of bread for a family to share for the month. Then in their reports they blame all the money spend on the first people, as the rich government man drives away in his big car.

[lloydswan]

Harpers apology in Canada tied the churches in so they will need to change there statement of belief perhaps

[Connorpei]

to continue what akropiss was saying: even the RCMP is corrupt when it comes to dealing with crimes in the reserves here in canada. I should know because my mom is a social worker who works with the natives. The cops do so much bullshit to them and here is the general population of canada thinking that natives get off easy and that they are just poor because they do drugs and buy tons of beer. Some canadians are such idiots. We always put down the US bit in some ways we arent much better

[sheeeshful]

Not all native people are traditional. Thats what bugs me, Hollywood has stereotyped us into some that we're not.

[sillypunkgrl]

I have only ever seen one reservation and it was almost at the canadian border in maine. I was little at the time but I was horrified at the conditions.

[akropiss]

in canada the reserves are more like ghettos, the conservatives toss money at the problem but that isn't going to fix anything, especially for the isolated inuits. there is a lack of opportunity for natives.

and I appologise for the early days, with the catholic schools. even if it happened far before my time, it's just sick, and it stains the reputations of all canadians

[kefri916]

@ akropiss

I agree, tossing more at the problem does NOT help, it only makes the taxpayers more resentful towards the reserves.

However, I disagree completely with your statement about the "lack of opportunity". Natives are given more opportunities than any white people. ( which is complete racism to me... ) It is 100% up to the person him/herself to take those opportunities!!! They need to quit blaming poeple of a different skin color for their problems!

[divadoodledoo]

@kefri916 Wow you do get around don;t you!!!??? Get a life! How much time do you spend denigrating First Nations peoples & spewing your hate! Sham on you...I actually respected you following our last exchange! You are full of hate & savagery! As previously stated...keep rubbing salt in their wounds but accept responsibility for what you are! A RACIST HATEMONGER!!!!!

[swansonlloyd]

@akropiss -stains reputation of the churches

[Indian0Warrior]

@akropiss The catholic have always committed atrocities in the name of God. Christianity is a cursed religion as me because I was born into a catholic family and now I have thrown the cursed bible in the garbage.

[dirkpdavis]

Chief Sitting Bull

"The love of possessions is a disease with them. They take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own and fence their neighbours away. If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough; the Indian would still have been dispossessed"

[gwachmai]

You can also look closer to England, they oppressed us, the Welsh., They tried to stamp out the Welsh language, through schools, and punishments were dished out to any so called pupil speaking Welsh.

An uprising was surpressed by hanging men from lamposts.

So the uk (United Kingdom), Is not so united as you may believe.

And the Welsh, Scotts, and Irish can take great offence by being called English, or for that matter British. I like many others have never classed myself as british.

[gpssat24]

You are part of Europe and Europeans as a whole perpetrated mass murders, physically and culturally speaking. Wales also sent paedophiles with their gods to the so-called "new world" (to you of course). The Native cultures could have taught you wonderful things as we have learned wondeful things from you (Europeans also brought good things). But the point is: You despised our culture.

[gwachmai]

gamerfranz,

You have been Institutianalised, you value, "education" (and I use that word very loosly) & money is your God.

Listen to Pink Floyds song my friend.

[ihatechocolatepeople]

what a sick comment gwachmai. Money is white man's God? If so then drugs, alcohol, casinos, unemployment and welfare must be indians god. You want to be critical about white people than look at your own race and tell me whats so perfect about it. indians are lead the way for crime and unemployment in the prairie provinces of Canada. But its white man who is uneducated? Ya okay. Blind people like you who think white men care only about money while indians are the ones living off white mens taxes

[dakotagerman1]

@ihatechocolatepeople

The Natives are in that condition because their culture was taken from them and (other than the science and technology of the white man) nothing better was given them--except a Bible to read.

If the Natives come back to their spirituality, then they will be, once again, enlightened and overcome the problems you mentioned.

[Indian0Warrior]

@dakotagerman1 I hope the natives revive their culture and return to their spirituality. God is watching over the natives.

[mojo23mojo]

I'm genuinely shocked this was happening well into the latter half of the 20th century. No matter how much money govermnents throw at people, it doesn't make up for what was lost and destroyed.

[Dyzm]

The same thing happened here in australia.Yet nobody wants to know.The few people that watch these vids are indigenous or are looking it up to make a racist comment.What are people afraid of?

[gingermax]

Whites act like Christopher Columbus discovered North America. There were over 100 million people already living here. These were schools of eugenics, rape, torture and murder were the order of the day. They were located 100's of miles out on the plains where nobody wold go to check on the children. Pedophile monsters were set loose on these children and they had no escape except through death. God damn Canada.

[clam502]

Your ignorances are amazingly humorus. Why so? Because you only prove the point in which this video is about. Only the victims of this atrocity have receved compensation for their illtreatment in those God forsaken "schools" Not every Native receve/d compensation as many like your self think. As for your first question, well it's pretty obvious what was so bad about those places.

[HarryWeener]

nothing could ever compensate for what was done to this beautiful race. its still the saddest thing i could ever imagine, and people act like it was nothing. hell, most people even celebrate this great tragedy every "thanksgiving". it makes me sick.

[granskare]

you're right...one must have endured such places and this guy evidently had not. I spent time in a childrens home so I know the stories...

you did a good job gathering and preserving the images.

[LPF767]

Excellent comment back dear friend. It just floors me how every other race complains of unjustice of their people and it's broadcasted BUT, to this very day, nothing is ever said or put on air about what happened to our people. Blacks get air time, Jews get air time, gays get air time but not a darn thing ever mentioned about our beautiful Indian race! Thank you for this video dear one and many blessings to you~*~

[greatrighthope]

Actually we need an education. Everyone went to shitty schools white, black,Chinese and yes Native. Straps and torment for everyone. Bad but what are you going to do? Do you really believe you were not savages? Everyone was at one time. White people were too. So what. Funny, when movies show Natives ripped and killing bears and buffalo with knives no Native dudes ever complain but when it is pointed out that Natives didn't have a written language or a wheel they bitch in a very unsavage way.

[clam502]

Wow!!! What a way to downplay the severity of what had happend in those schools! True regardless of race some people went to crappy schools but this is about the crappy schools that First Nations went too, and the cruelty they had to endure all in the name of assimilation! Whites, Asians and Blacks were not forced into schools purposly designed to assimilate and destroy an entire race of people! And what am I going to do? Well this video is one of the things I'm doing. What did you do?

[wapoose777]

omg! we were just fine before the real savages came and destroyed our people! i really wish that u were one who endured what our people had to cuz u would not be saying these things! i pitty ur ignorance!

[Whipplets]

This is great. Thanks

For all those who may not know. I am from Ireland. This was the training ground For this kind of abuse.They learned how to get it right there first.Then they spread out to other First nation peoples.

It spread like a desease through the modern world. Always remind us of our failings. We let a whole people down. Mine and yours.

[sjohnschafer]

My grandmother and her sister were put into a Choctaw orphanage for girls,They were beaten if they spoke their own language, so they used to whisper to each other in the night so that they would not forget it. Choctaw allotments were stolen from all the kids in the orphanage.. and when they came of age, they had nothing.

We should never forget that these and many more barbaric things happened to our ancestors, so that history will not repeat itself.

[madmanninc]

The Indian peopleare the true Americans. They are the true race. They should be free Americans. A free Race!

[fingerindaeye666]

they always tried to get rid of us and to this day they still do seems to me as more time pasts us native get stronger and stronger as tho now they r tring to take our status cards away, as more time pasts they always try to take sumthing away as i have read sumthing sumone said "now whos the savages" as we all know we never was savages we was peaceful people living the way we wanted till the invaders from a forin land and disrupted our way of life

[vindivixon]

Indian culture is beautiful. Hold your heads high!!

[vindivixon]

Your people should hold your heads high!! The Indian culture is to be envied, for your love of family, Mother Earth, and your being connected to nature. Most 'Americans' could use lessons on being human.......

[rosymelanie]

I'm sorry you've gotten negative comments. :( I think its a beautiful song and video.

[starbabe58]

so very sad

[cherokeeladyfox]

I SIBCERELY APOLOGIZE, I WAS TOTALLY OUT OF TEXT AND IT CAME OUT WRONG NO DOUBT.......

IM NATIVE AMERICAN ALSO, AND I WOULD NEVER SPEAK AGAINST THEM..........MY DEEPEST APOLOGIZES..........

CHEROKEELADYFOX

nite_owl

[cherokeeladyfox]

what the time these people did they thought was right at the time.

nite_owl

[clam502]

If that is the case than I guess one could say that at the time it was acceptable to murder millions of Jews and others because they were not part of the Nazi plan or didn't conform to nazism. Also it was the right thing to do. If what you say is right, which it is not because those people then knew exactly what they were doing was wrong and without conscience still did it. It was genocide!

[tarrzaan]

yes so true !!!!!they have no concepts of what rights are because they have been born into slavery by thier kings and queens !and then thier churches !

lets have a amen to that and one hellva hail mary !

[HHDV]

Lets talk about the british and french priests who DID hand out smallpox blankets and used smallpox cultures in the "Holy Water" doing sick deth baptisms against the parents wishes at the first schools. ITS DOCUMENTED FACT: MURDER TO "SAVE" THEIR SOULS. Sick and insane zombie worshipping christians need to face up....

[omegasher]

Canadian people are so ignorant about the state of Native rights in Canada. They are given tons of bad conditioning to make them feel like what happened and continues to happen is just part of the normal process and excuse it. Canada should be ashamed of this aspect of the nations history and seek to fix the cultural beliefs that maintain the problem.

[NarutoHime]

Please don't critize ALL of Canada. Canada was kept in the dark about all of the stuff going on in the schools. All the government wanted was to educate Canadians.

[clam502]

My self and many others who don't have an IQ lower than room temprature know it wasn't all Canadians who condemed us to those schools or "reserves" it was the federal Government at the time. I don't blame the current government for the wrongs of the past, though making more wrongs today yes they are to blame.

[Videos4C]

Great vid, well blended soundtrack - always a lovely song to evoke the senses to all forms of Schooling that was, let's say overtly 'Victorian'

[bobertr69]

those schools look like jails great video

[ressiegirl]

The Mikmaq Honor Song, is sacred to us and it means, we honor who we are, we give thanks for everything that sustains our lives, let us help one another and thank Creator for placing us upon this earth. The Creator giave us our language, culture for us to make a conscious effort to try to love one another, to honour one another.

[giggletronics]

Religion is not the problem, rather it was just the vehicle, the excuse. People just wanted some justification for the bad things they were doing, and they would have looked elsewhere if religion didn't exist. Regardless, religion is an outdated and primitive practice. People need to stop denying the power of their own minds by giving themselves up to the arbitrary whims of a nonexistent god.

[Angrysean8]

Even calling Christiananity the vehical is rediculas, it hasn't changed and will not change. It's big business the need for more, and more that fuels genocide. Blaming the poineers whom came to America, what 100-200 years after European businesses started coming over is plain out an unread opinion. And an arbitrary whim still stands strong today, as far as I know Jesus Christ has not been disproven.

[teamhuman2]

from level of compassion there seems to be no god worth worshiping like the tooth fairy famous icons best friend lol reality sets in and life is all one big cycle death fuels life kindness is the most important because we are all things just not at the same time in a whole lifetime its a controlled substance cause its good like that allows for one to visit everywhere at once or many places at one to bring back the realization to there own life reality so cheers ,enjoy and of course team human!!

[HHDV]

The priests DID hand out diseased blankets and cultured the disease to be sprinked on children as "Holy Water", whether they believed or not, its still murder in the name of christ!

[zakoot]

the problem in corrupted relgions;

Luk 22:36 he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

---

Kill those who are NOT Christian or Jewish:

You must kill those who worship another god. Exodus 22:20

Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. Deuteronomy 13:12-16

Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. Deuteronomy 17:2-7

Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. Deuteronomy 17:12-13

[Angrysean8]

In Luke (with the 2 swords)Jesus asks his disciples to guard him because he wasnt finshed with his work yet, he still had to go to the garden and take on the sins of the world before he could be crucified,and Judas had already taken the silver and sold him out. When they came to get Jesus, Peter wanted to fight them, he struck at one soldier and cut off his ear, and then Jesus told Peter to put away his sword,this had to come to pass

[col1n1234]

What ever they do, in your Heart you know who you are.

Love Light and Peace,

Colin

[guaindi]

beautiful song

[flightofeagles]

This is still hard to bear witness, but we knew this for decades and always thought the government was working toward restitution, but it has been a long and hard struggle. The squashing of a peoples, and harming children, is a blight on all of Canada. Amazing though there was so much prejudice in thinking the first nation people were illiterate and needed white people. Much of the problems were hidden for many placing these schools out of sight many times. God Bless them all.

[incaFB]

I hope you keep your originality and language for the next generations to come. Without you Canada has no culture and no identity just bunch of immigrants like me.That's what I hope for a great nation with such an old and reach culture.

[burningdwn]

In the name of god they (euro's)destroy god. It has always been this way, what we can not understand we are afraid of and destroy that. I think it would be better to have a leader that is truly north american, in the white house. Why is there only one representitive in congress from first nation's.

may mother earth bring you back. and let her shed no more tears for her children.

[ginkiba3]

It saddens me on how such great people, who'd been here for over 6000 years, were destroyed by men's greed and arrogance, beautiful song in the beginning.

[clam502]

Thank you. The song is the Mi'Gmaq Honour song.

[SilkySaulteaux]

NDN is a far cry from being 'offensive .. I am proud to be NDN ! The term aboriginal is more offensive to me .. it to me means something that isnt original .. and we are THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE !!!

[clam502]

It's good to see there are First Nations out there who are useing words of Healing. I personally don't call my self an Aborgional or Indian, I refer to my self and my nation as First Nation/s.

[AmaoNoBolso]

i m white too..i m so ashamed to see wath white people did back there..i feel dirty..i know i didnt do it,i have no respect for wath they did..but i feel ashamed..dirty blood

[clam502]

Don't be ashamed of who you are. Like you said, You didn't do it. It's the ignorant asses before us who did it. The so called "elite" of the social upper class thought it would be best to civilize a race of civilised people.

[IroquoisBoys]

SEGO: bless these ancestors faces and heart. nya:weh O:nen ki wahi

[Joebobzilla]

I'm white, but I have to say, back then white people were assholes. I feel for the aboriginals. I heard that in the States, the term for them is still 'Indian?' I'm not sure if thats ture, but if it is, how disgraceful! In canada they are called Aboriginals or First Nations, much better than the offensive 'Indian'.

Goddamn whites!

[skywoman14]

In American, they refer to " Indians" as Native American or Native American Indian.

[beastshawnee]

Let's see...they thought it would be a good idea to rip children away from the only ones who loved them, stick them all in a cold drafty school, cut all their hair the same, make them wear the same clothes, beat them, work them half to death, and let some church threaten them with damnation, because...well anything must be better than being Indian?...yeh...right...

[muse54]

@beastshawnee I saw a film that explained all of what you just talked about, I think the name of it was: "The Education of Little Tree." It will break your heart.

Also, the PBS special, "We will remain," was fantastic.

"Into the West" was good too but didn't get much publicity.

[flowergirlrocks]

could one of you nice understanding people drum some bloody sence into racist Ausratian people about the aboriginals it is so bad over here i just can not belive it being white myself i have never seen such horrid racism they have to say some reason why they were treated like that and no one does no matter who they are i now hate my racist country

[bloodeviner395]

what did thses kids do to deserve these kinds of punishments

they stuck needles in their 6 year old toungues and tried to bleach their skin cause they wanted us to be white

F*** Y**

[aboriginaloriginal]

the people that killed Jesus came here to the New World and bragged about it. We are a people with strong beliefs they used the creators son to conquer us. First they killed him, and they used him. His blood is not on our hands its on theirs and now our blood is on their hands as well, is there no end?!?

[holgerspeckter]

The horrors done to the Native people in the name of God is disgusting.

[MrIndianSupporter]

@holgerspeckter In the name of Jesus to be more accurate.

[missdimples1982]

@holgerspeckter I agree, God would not have wanted this, It was greed that drove the people back then, and the Native's who already respected there lands had to suffer

[woz53]

Great Video.. When the time comes for the final count, The Creator will know who we are.

[aboriginaloriginal]

keep praying keep believing keep surviving and for sure the Creator will know.

[Laontinata]

meegwetch to whoever made this video.

My father was at a residential school, I am sure I could of spoken my language if they didnt beat it out of him......

[Naphorse]

i love this song now lol

[jodyrea]

Indirect murder - as a Canadian Iam ashamed of what we did to our First Nations RIP Harold George - gone but not forgotten I will join you one day my love.............

[vidlivs]

Columbus has nothing to do with rez schools, so what's your point. If it wasn't him who was known as the first European to sail to North America, it only would have been someone else soon after. The Europeans were building boats to sail further from the coast. It would have been inevitable.

[mastercchan]

a wonderfull video well made keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with me god bless and peace to all aho

[lihzan]

Very well done! Let the truth be told

[kerrili]

great video, you choose the perfect song to go with it. keep up the good work.

[blueshadow1996]

was there ever a healing commitee back then? Or were they just as corrupt

[clg26]

I understand what you mean by this and it is true. They are using the survivors money for these supposed 'healing' centers, and it is a farce, and very corrupt (unethical).

[Laxgiik]

Hey was there once and Hated St Micheal in AlertBay, BC