Residential School--Honoring Our Parents (created by Niitsitapi07)

For this video I assembled a collection of archive photos about residential school, some quotations and a song by the drum group, Red Bull.

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[robpattinzon]

how much pain and suffering our people went through tried to take our launguage and culture away from us and look at us today we are still strong as a nation and still belive in our cerimonies i dont think that they will ever be able to dehumanize us how ever hard they try

to my kokum marie i love you dearly, our ancestors we should be grateful we dont go through this!

love you kokum !

[Ravenredbird]

Nya:weh/Miigwetch for this beautiful composition. As a generational survivor of the barbaric residential school system, a counsellor and a mother of grown children I will strive to see that the truth be told and justice be served. The crimes and genocidal actions of the government, church and law cannot be wiped away with pitiful, meaningless apologies.... remember the "forked tongue" saying...it lives on today!

Stay strong and pray Sisters and Brothers.. we are "Survivors" in every sense..Ona

[ghanarg1]

Yes how dare the non natives residents try to teach desperately poor Native kids to read and write so that they could get jobs and support themselves! Obviously it didn't work and now the non Native population of Canada not only supports the Natives with billions of dollars in handouts every year....they have to pay Billions of dollars to natives as an apology because they tried to provide them with an education. Welcome to Canada the land of the never ending aboriginal guild trip.

[motherofthedrummer]

Chi-Miigwetch for posting this niitsitapi07

[spotandedgar]

Thank you for posting this.

[OrionNebula999]

As a white canadian..i am ashamed. But i bring this part of our history to every christian trying to "save" me...often making them speechless. I am a humanist, i belong to the human race. Peace.

[ANIMespaceIST]

now that we have survived and struggling to establish our presence, looking to the future to continue our resistance of temptation to what the white man calls, the finer things in life. We have been consuming products that keep us as domesticated servants to the government and corporations.???

[stradamorin]

The pain and the suffering will never be undone. It shall always remain as a Black stain on the parents and grandparents of the whites of today. The only good that can come from such horrible acts is change. It is a wake up call for the white population to take control of the greedy, self-centered people we allow to government over us. A Government big enough to do everything for you. Is big enough to take everything away from you. I AM SORRY FOR OUR BLINDNESS NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN I AM SORRY

[92359hg]

Oh Canada My home on Native Land ..... how could we be such disrespectful and ungrateful guests ........... shame on the lot of us!!!!!!!!!!!!

[merryprankster60]

Niitsitapi 07: Thank you for your video. I've passed it around to many friends since you posted it, and have used it for educational purposes.

Also, a wonderful Honour Song by Redbull!

I know that my great great grandfather and at least one of his brothers were sent to the Mushhole in Brantford, but I don't yet know about his children, nor his parents, nor his wife's family, (all Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy). He became the truant officer at the Mushhole, bringing back the runaways.

[shiningstardee]

and my heart still hurts, it aches, it cries...

and my eyes will always have tears to fall for those who can't cry, those who never got to cry, and for those yet to come, who are still going to cry...i weep, i sob, i morn, that pain is so deep, deeper than I...and so I pray, I pray for my brothers and sisters and for those who do not understand us and those who are too ignorant to even try to understand.

Anishinabe, your beautiful, inside and out. Always, No Matter what, thats just who u are.