Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide
Unrepentant documents Canada’s “dirty secret” – the planned genocide of aboriginal people in church-run Indian Residential Schools – and a clergyman’s efforts to document and make public these crimes.
First-hand testimonies from residential school survivors are interwoven with Kevin Annett’s own story of how he faced firing, “de-frocking”, and the loss of his family, reputation and livelihood as a result of his efforts to help survivors and bring out the truth of the residential schools.
This saga continues, as Annett continues a David and Goliath struggle to hold the government and churches of Canada accountable for crimes against humanity, and the continued theft of aboriginal land.
Unrepentant took nineteen months to film, primarily in British Columbia and Alberta, and is based on Kevin Annett’s book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust. The entire film was a self-funded, grassroots effort, which is reflected in its earthy and human quality.
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Religion sucks..
My uncle married a native women from Greenville, British Columbia. Her father ran to the mountains and lived wild untill it was safe to go back to the village. THE INDIAN ACT HAS GOT TO BE ABOLISHED. This time in Canadian history is very dark indeed. As a Canadian that is close to this issue but not native myself I see peoples attitudes towards first nations and it makes me cry.. People just dont understand what they go through. My cousins are both white and native, but to white people they are native and to native people they are white…We are all human, please treat others the way you would like to be treated…
Dustin, you are 100% correct and as a white American, this issue causes me shame just as the regret I have for how my forefathers treated black people. The Indians were much more kind and civilized than these so-called christian mongrels. It takes the lowest of scum to rape a child and pedophilia has always been rampant in all religious but far worse in all forms of christianity.
We all need to wake up and free ourselves from political and religious lies and treat each other with compassion and kindness. I saw this video about a year ago and it broke my heart. Animals don’t treat one another the way we ‘humans’ do.
We Americans really go out of our way to act as a moral example for you Canadians, and then you go and do something like this. It seems like all the worst, most vile people come from Canada. I saw a documentary that this is because of all the inbreeding.
@ Andrew:
Moral example??? (LMAO) You must be from the bible belt!
Inbreeding?? explain that to me. I am Canadian.
@ Andrew
I think we American are the last people to pass judgment on anyone (well except for the Germans)
with that said, this is pretty disturbing. never thought Canada was capable of this.
Andrew, this nation aborts more babies than any other country on the planet. We have a larger drug problem and almost 250,000 children disappear each year. We are over run with pedophiles and we march all over the planet killing and stealing in the name of a monster god.
@Andrew buddy..
I think you are completely mistaken. Who told you that b*******? How could the United States be any kind of example except on how to be a tyrannical nation sending war wherever it wants, killing millions of innocent people for resources??? Your a fool and should not open your mouth EVER!
And to those who say they never thought Canada was capable of this. All humans are capable of this as well as all humans are capable of compassion, dont start grouping a whole country of people over what a handful of evil people did 50 years ago. Germans are not all nazi’s. I hope you get what im trying to say, that judging a group of people because of a fews actions is wrong. If you want to learn more on this subject and who the “bad apples of canada and america are look up the idea of Eugenics. That is the cause of this genocide in question and the Jewish genocide. Again dont just think you know do the research
Kevin Annett, Another leading example of a true solder of the Light. He says it right in the light in the end how it is Bro!
@Mike–
I’m pretty sure American slavery and our own (related to Canada’s) genocide of natives is much, much worse and went on much, much longer than Hitler’s reign in Europe. Don’t let the Zionist media wash your brain, defaulting your perspective to think that ‘the Holocaust’ was the worst thing to ever happen to humans, etc. Nonsense. Silly sheep.
Andrew
The blame is borderless. Both Canada and the US have treated the native peoples of North America in an appalling manner. There is no justification for any actions this vile but to take one incident and blame the blatantly planned genocide of the the entire population of north America on one event is naive and insulting to the millions of people who’s lives were destroyed by all European coming to the Americas. Schools just like these ones were found all over the States with over 100 000 children forced to attend. The sexual abuse and forced assimilation was just as rampant and horrific. In 1987 the FBI found evidence that John Boone a BIA teacher (bureau of indian affairs) was found to have molested 147 boys in Arizona. This is not an old problem it is an ongoing one.
In short stop pointing a finger, acknowledge the problem as a whole and vote accordingly.
PS
I must apologize, we Canadians rudely overlooked your moral example. Our attention was diverted by the loud noise of your constantly rattling sabers.
Well said SeanP. Me love you long time.
i have not watched this i cant due to abuse that i sufferd from age 6 to 11, i do know the story behind it. i am canadian and my closest friend is of the onida peoples. his family settled on the muncie reservation after forced from there land by the american goverment. (good example eh andrew)across the road from my house is a small church which was the last stop of the underground railroad do you know what that was andrew. my best friend even acknoweledge the fact that the beliefs of people are diffrent now and we must forgive old ways if we are to move on to new ones. the canain goverment has made a public apoligy and set up a compensation board although thier is no way to compensate for such behaviore. i have one question what about all the people out there like me abused by john and yes jane doe (abuse by weman is on the rise)were is our compensation
@ Andrew
…you’re kidding, right? If so: good job.
If not, it’s even funnier.
If anyones interested the website hiddenfromhistory.org has a lot of interesting articles relating to this.
This is so heartbreaking, but it confirms what I had already suspected. I feel as a white Canadian so much part of the problem just through complacency. It’s hard to know what to even do! How could I possibly make right, what a government and (false) church has made so wrong. I think it’s important for all Canadians, however helpless we feel to at least acknowledge that we believe what these people are saying. I hope the next time that I see an aboriginal on the street that I can have the courage to approach them and tell them that I simply believe them, what happened (happens) to their people and it breaks my heart also.
Some of you are sooo funny, wish I’d thought of it….
Well, this doesn’t make me proud at all not in any country to any person.
I’d like to point out that blacks in Canada weren’t treated exactly as equals, the Chinese still are wanting an apology, the Japanese were treated abominably, the East Indians (especially in the ’70′s) were jeered at, everyone that immigrated was called a DP when I was a kid in the 60′s, even as a child born in Canada I was teased about my Hungarian roots so nobody has gotten a free ride (except maybe WASP’s and who know what went on in their homes).
Also, I went to a Catholic day school for 6 years. 98% of students were Aboriginal. There was no discrimination between white or native, we all got beaten and abused equally.
When will we play nice???
This is a widespread aspect of colonisation. Australia has the stolen generation, Magdalena Girls in Ireland.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Christianity is a imperialistic religion. Religion is the only method to get good people to commit evil deeds.
God is imaginary. God is the ultimate excuse. The bible is usefully contradictory – it contains a definition of hypocrisy but is itself hypocritical.
Ancient and traditional Organized Religion is the enemy of all notion of human rights – and must be destroyed.
This is so ridiculous they were practicing genocide to eliminate the natives yet now Canada is a multi-cultural society. The government allows so many immigrants from other countries but we eliminate the ones already here!? Why shouldn’t Natives be equal Canadians like the rest of us.
Oh and I do not take responsibility for any of it. I did not make any of the decisions. I never have. I do not accept being considered part of this culture – I do not identify. I am a individual dammit and I was born in 1991.
Kevin Annett’s values are humanistic. The fact that some of his values are written down in some verses in the bible is not amazing. After all the bible is a work of men and contains both a little good and much evil.
But forget all notion of good and evil. This world is about survival of the fittest. Power and dominance.
God is imaginary. Whatever good we find in Christianity can exist without it. This minister merely likes the nice idea that ‘Jesus’ brings – justice for the outsider, the little guy. but this is what he has taken from it – He ignores the rest of the bible. God is invisible – we give ‘him’ form by adding our power, our values like love, joy, etc. We give the invisible man clothes.
Organized religion is evil. This film makes me sick. Their is no excuse. No backpedaling. No excuses or apologists. Lets deal with reality and move forward. Their is no God. Only People. Powerful people, evil people, simple people, wise people.
So the light of truth should finally shine – Utopia (comparatively) above the 2000 plus years of mid-evil darkness. 2000 years of turmoil. Of mental anguish. Of ignorance.
This really opened my eyes to how little I know about Canada and it’s history.
Sunny1′s post is interesting. May I ask; do you still choose to follow this vile religion knowing what you know and how you have personally experienced it’s abuses?
Response to Yavanna: I absolutely do not follow this religion or any other organized religion. This was in part due to the hypocracy I saw between love vs power/control and because in my teens I noticed in church one day that we were all saying the Lords Prayer yet I was thinking about other things. I thought that there was something seriously wrong when your mouth says the words but your heart and mind are elsewhere. The rituals are meaningless and the sermons are meant to disempower people. Ever since then I have searched elsewhere.
Except for one aunt who became a nun no one else in my family is Catholic anymore.
I do believe that there is a “mind” behind creation but do not espouse the common “god” view that religions spout. I believe we all have our own path and our own experience of the divine. Religions are just prisons for human growth and potential.
Thanks Sunny1
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the reply. We as mankind will probably never know the absolute truth and therefore it might never be discovered whether or not there is there is such a “mind” or consciousness which began creation. I think this sort of spirituality is part of all of us and most of us would wish it to be true in one form or another. I`ve even heard Richard Dawkins say this.
But for the religions to arrogantly proclaim the truth based on books thousands of years old written by bronze age nomads: it offends my sensibilities that modern people still believe in such. And more still they still follow their religions when they can (and do) easily learn their dark history and the ongoing abuses perpetrated.
Sunny1 what I don’t understand is why religions behave in the way they do towards the people that follow them. And how they can possibly expect people like yourself not to become disenfranchised. It’s almost as if they are deliberately driving people away.
Take the Canadian issues in this doc too. The RCC could compensate the victims in a heartbeat; out of pocket change. It could return lands and help individuals suffering from their abuses to recover. The RCC is considered to be in control of half the planets wealth despite its pauper act. That sort of collateral would go a long way in repairing their image and redressing it’s harms.
blue eyed WHITE man is the SATAN walking like a hungry lion…
Does not surprise me. Everywhere the white man invaded you will find this story over and over and over and over again. Interesting documentary, but like everything else nothing will be done about it. PEACE to the human family who spreads knowledge, wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, equality, food, clothing, shelter, love, peace, and happiness.
Hi Yavanna!
You are welcome, I like discussing these matters with intelligent/thoughtful people.
I don’t understand why religions act like this either. My aunts and I ponder this often. One thought I have is that the people in charge are stunted, power crazed, and insensitive. They most likely were abused themselves. I question whether they believe what they preach or just love the power they have.
In the RCC it was a practice that at least one child would become a priest or nun, imagine being coerced into a position you did not want?
The other thing is that historically the RCC became a political entity in order to survive. This is why its name is the Roman Catholic Church; in order to stop the vendetta against early christians the church agreed to recognize the Roman emperor as it’s head. Also, when Constantinople became a christian and commanded his people to follow christianity it wasn’t due to the BS story of his remarkable conversion. It was a political move between him and the early church. So if one looks at this religion thing from this perspective it is based on a faulty foundation of pride and lust for power not love. I may be a bit conspiracy driven but I think the RCC is still a major player in politics, eg. for what reason did George Bush rush over to the Vatican after he invaded Iraq? He looked pretty sheepish.
All of the other so called christian churches are just off shoots of the catholic church. It is so funny how the protestant churches all claim they have the truth and say the catholic church is wrong when their root is the same and they use the same bible.
The local RCC’s have taken financial hits. They’ve had to sell off land and buildings. I’m not sure how much gets to the victims or if it goes to lawyers (probably protestant ones hehe).
It is a terrible disgrace the the RCC is still not taking responsibity and remains unaccountable. I am amazed there are still people attending this outfit. The pope could flog some paintings or some of the gold inside the Vatican. The pope could be flogged for spreading so much misinformation and enslaving minds.
I don’t know what exactly is behind this universe but I do think that there is something. I call it a higher mind, great spirit or whatever as I can’t think of a different term and the word god has too many connotations that I find reprehensible. Logically I can’t prove it but as Yananna noted it is built into us. I’ve had experiences that speak to me on an intuitive/psychic level. Whatever it is, it is bigger than our minds can fathom at this point.
As for the bible there are some useful tools in it. But I don’t think modern people understand the mindset of the ancient writers. Many of the words don’t mean the same thing as we think, the symbology also comes from a different psychological framework. And it has been manipulated so much over time who knows what it originally said. The words are still manipulated by those with personal agendas. Then of course there is how it was compiled in a time when people were still superstitous and narrow minded.
If Pelgarius had become accepted more than Augustine we would have a whole different way of looking at the bible plus religion wouldn’t be so punative and controlling.
The best explaination for this book that I’ve heard so far is that it is a Kabbalistic (not that Madonna ****) text that describes in metaphor the development of a person.
*There was a really good doc series on PBS a few years ago about the history of popes which explained the churches history as well. Sorry can’t think of name off hand.
*I found The Book of Judas (on this site) eye opening.
OOPs! It is Yavanna not Yananna…sorry…
Yananna Bananna I dont mind – this must be “be nice to yavanna day” some days I despair…
Sunny you mention you are conspiracy driven but so few CTs menation the RCC’s involvement with freemasonary – just a lead you might wish to research. Start with knights of Malta, CFR etc.
They are very inter-connected.
As for the financial aspects of the RCC – Provincial churches and districts are kept destitute but the main body is not only politically powerful but immensely rich. They control corporations, governments. They reputedly own satellites and Nasa probes. Depending on what stories you wish to believe of course.
My view of history is becoming like this: Catholicism Vs Islam. The current world events seem to confirm this and historically that’s what its all been about.
Yavanna, no need to despair, celebrate your own inherent worth! detractors can go where they like…
I will delve into RCC and freemasonay. I had a book on The History of Freemasonary in America, but of course lent it and it’s gone.
RCC was involved in a scandal because they had shares in contraceptives! Word is that Pope John Paul I was murdered because he was going to expose other nefarious deeds of the RCC. He had made statements that pretty much stated his position to clean house.
What a system we have, somebody always vs somebody and not in the sense of progress but annihilation. Look how much of our lives involves this polarity. No wonder the Buddhists want to get out of this cyclical existence.
I like the ideology of the yin-yang. It explains so much but I hope that the current state of seeming unbalance especially human affairs will soon shift to something more uplifting and caring. Think I am despairing of this occuring…
True, Vatican wealth “Truly astonishing”
The Vatican has a treasure of gold to be estimated at more than several billion dollars, and with todays gold prices, could be double.
But that is just a small portion of their wealth.
The Catholic Church is the biggest financial power wealth accumulator and property owner in existence.
She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the entire World. Minimum worth to be 15 to 20 billion dollars. But their may be much more that is unknown.
I haven’t watched this doc yet but my intial comments are…if you can’t beat em, join em. We’ve created a wel-fare state for the first nations. This needs to stop, we should not feel guilty about any of this, land is taken by war, it’s a fact. These treaty’s are f’in rediculous and embarressing. By the way, I’m half native.
@allan
Dont comment if you have NO idea what this is about.
Your views are almost childishly simple. Furthermore, this doc is not at all about land, it’s about the systematic torture of CHILDREN.
Please think before you post your offensive brainfarts!
@Shugga
Your absolutly right. I was assuming it was about colonial times. After watching this I can’t articulate the shock and disgust I’m feeling right now.
I’ve alway’s assumed the majority of problems with native comunities was due to an apologetic government handing them check’s every month and a general lazy attitude and sense of entitlement.
I never dreamed of something so devious going on. In fact if I hadn’t heard it comming directly from the mouth’s of those effected, then common sense would not allow me to believe it.
I’m completly sickened, and I vow to help them somehow.
I am from Vancouver Island and attended the United Church for 12 years there. When I was younger there was no mention of the history of the local Natives.
As I got older and I went to college I started to realize how racist I was towards Natives. It disturbed me and I wanted to find out why the Natives from my hometown were in such bad shape.
The disgusting past of how we treated the Native population is horrible and people in Canada still don’t know why a lot of the reservations are still unable to recover.
This is a great documentary and should be watched by all Canadian high school students. We can’t chnage the past but I hope we can do far more to help our Canadian First Nations brothers.
and we are still carrying on with the very same patterns of behaviour in every day life (albeit in more subtle ways)…people need to wake up and smell the coffee…then we will all have peace
@experimental designation. your scatter-pointed sermon makes it very clear that you were born in ’91. you sound like a cultist.
It is easy to see why history is not mandatory in schools, so much of it is tainted or Americanized anyway. Luckily the British had Native allies who fought for Canada in 1812-14…(they were not decimated as in the USA) Bring it on General Custer… The Canadian Gov needs to settle a few land claims with the Original Peoples…who were OK until the conquering Europeans f#%*ked things up! Some people who make insidious comments have trouble seeing past their nose! ADVISE -101 GO VISIT A LIBRARY
First of all, I am a PROUD Metis Canadian. It is not just Canada that these atrocities happened. If you look into your American History books, it happened in America as well. It is very sad that any of this ever happened. We also know that The First Nations People will never get a formal public apology. What I don’t understand is why they don’t try to move on, and rise above it. I really think that because of everything that has happened to the First Nations People it is now impacting the lives of thier children, and thier grandchildren. Why not stop the cycle of abuse now? You don’t hear of Holocaust survivors passing on the same torment onto thier children, and grandchildren.
@ Proud Canadian
Actually, you DO hear of Holocaust survivors passing on the same torment to their children and grandchildren. And survivors of Japanese internment camps. And Native survivors of genocidal attempts on their cultural, spiritual, and physical lives. (just to name a few)
It is called “historical trauma” or sometimes “intergenerational trauma.” Historical trauma was originally defined by Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart (Oglala Lakota) in the late ’80s as “cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the lifespan and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma.” She’s been largely responsible for spreading the word about this amongst native populations, but it actually comes from work done by numerous Jewish scholars on the same phenomenon occurring amongst children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
Counselors and other people who work with Native/First Nations populations are increasingly using this theoretical framework to address substance abuse, interpersonal violence, and emotional issues amongst these populations with great success! This idea rings true with a lot of people, I think…
The catholic church, it’s policies, complicity’s & hierarchy = fear & loathing – be very, very afraid. The New World Order is not new. Do NOT be poor and ‘dis’-connected on this planet. I can get behind this man, even though he is a christian – he is a christian with a humanistic soul, his message is mighty – amazingly brave and correct man.
First off…
People should watch who they insult!
Americans on this site commenting on how much better they are then Canada only reduce themselves to being like the white males in this documentary who hurt Native americans. How could you possibly think you are better then us? It is mentalities like that that cause the hate in the world and horrifying incidences like the Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, and the mis-treatment of Natives.
And by Americans saying how disgusting this is of Canada, maybe you better look into your OWN historical treatment of Native americans before you go calling the kettle black!Or maybe we should Point out America’s historical treatmeant of blacks? its worse. Canada and the USA were all one country at one point, just a giant block of mysterious land populated by what was considered “backward people”. Before the countries were even divided, the populations of Native people were slaughtered, raped, enslaved and diseased by white invaders landing in South America to Canada. It was not and is still not only Canada who presents Natives with a poor life-style. In canada Natives are paid to stay in highschool, their university is free or discounted, our government sends teachers to their reserves to attempt to educate them, especially the most isolate reserves in our Northern territories. They dont pay one our taxes on food, smokes, EVERYTHING! They need no license to hunt or fish and they ARE allowed to perform their religious and cultural practices. Natives fight for their rights on both sides of the border.IN general they have been used and mis-treated since WHITE people stepped onto the shores of the new world THINKING THEY WERE BETTER!
And as for the ignorant comments against the country I was born a raised in…you only further the world’s beliefs that America is PACKED with ignorant war mongers, who believe the world belongs to them, Canadians all live in Igloos and that there is apparently (some where) “weapons of mass distruction”. Before you go hating on everyone else on the planet and disturbing their lives, maybe you should take your nose out of everyone elses business and look to yourselves.
You wanna throw comments? Fine I’ll play your ignorant, comparitive game. Canada is great! We have less unemployed people then America, less teen pregnancies, less drug addicts, a higher standard of education with more students graduating highschool AND university/college. The world likes us more, and the only reason our standard has gone down in recent years is because we are neighbours with the united states! Yes we have debt and yes our government is a bunch of retards, but atleast they are not retards who cost their country 1/3 of the entire worlds war debt and Canada isnt so economicallty f**ked from importing more then we export. Want to know something funny? Canada exports their garbage and dumps it in YOUR states! Your government would rather take money from Canada to dump garbage, then put money into much needed social programs! Americans come across the border or MOVE here in order to recieve FREE health-care and surgeries, sure the wait is longer, but atleast it wont cost me a second mortgage to have a child. Our government embraces its diversity and tries to help all the different people who live here! We also are the bread basket of the world, as in we produce and export so much grain (especially to the states) that we keep the planet populated with bread. We have the most fresh water on the globe in our possession, We are less polluted then you, animals run free in our VAST open areas, we have fresher air and more space per human being then you do!
Canadians have fought, died and demonstrated enormous amounts of courage in every war, most notably in WW1. We die in a war in the middle east we didnt even start or care about. You would think that America would be the more mature, stable nation beings as its much older (independantly) but in reality we are the quiet, mature neighbour to the north. We may be quiet but as soon as it comes to American walking all over us, historically and to this day we dont take your ****. We kicked your *** in the war of 1812, so be thankful we gave back all the land we took from the 49th parallel to Virginia (ever wonder where your oh so precious star spangled banner comes from? or why your white house is white? oh thats right! you tried to take us over but instead we pushed you all the way back to your capital burnt down your white house and all that was left standing was the American flag!).
Canada has faults, dont get me wrong there are many things I wish I could change about this country and the way our government runs it, but do not go spouting your mouth off about Canada, because there are way to many good things about us compared to you, and there are way too many Canadian things/people you think are yours. The man who invented the telephone? Canadian, from Brantford ontario.Thomas edison (electricity/lightbulb)came from Canada. Wayne Gretsky? Mario Lameux? Sidney Crosby? well almost 3/4 of the NHL and someting like 95 of the top 100 hockey players of all time=Candian. Zippers, Zambonies, Mike Meyers, Jim Carrey, Catherine O’Hara,Donald sutherland, Elisha Cuthburt, Ryan Reynolds, Rachel McAdams,Eugene Levy, Keanu Reeves, Kim Katrell,BASKETBALL,electrical cooking range,electric prosthesis for children, snow-blower, snow-mobile, table-hockey, lacrosse, the list goes on and on!
Oh, and we won more gold medals then you did in the winter olympics,meaning we had more WINNERS (1st place) then you… oh, and we beat you at hockey too…
there you think that sounds ****** and ignorant? That is EXACTLY what Americans (majority) sound like everytime they open their mouths and thier extreme concieted-ness comes pouring out…all about how GREAT they are….
In the end…all this ranting is to demonstrate that while Canada may not be perfect, by GOD the USA is far from saintly and perfect!
Dont talk **** about some one else, because they can talk **** right back at you USA!
And as for those americans on here who actually stood up and put the ignorant Americans in their place, by demonstrating that there is alot wrong the with states too and dont be a hypocrit, GOOD JOB! if there were more Americans like you, it would be a better place. If ALL countries had more people to step and and say “hey were not perfect either…” what a wonderful world this would be.
PS: my family has lived in North America (including the states) almost since the beggining of white people settling here, and NONE of us are inbred. And I am pretty sure I had heard the same inbreeding rumour coming out of the American south too…those piss *** tiny towns, hicks marrying cousins-and your OWN people say that! Again anything we are supposively, you are too!
So keep your mouth shut… and I am sure some overly proud American is going to come back at this long statement I have written at full force, trying to prove it all wrong and bash Canada like mad. But here is the difference…I dont care. I know the reality of things. Spout off as much as you want, but I have the world agreeing with me…who you got? Diss Canada as much as you want, but I can sleep at night because there is less murder and crime, the world doesnt hate me, the government helps me pay for my university, I can be accepted for who I am, i am not unemployed, it wont cost me an arm or leg to fix my other arm or leg, I love my couch, i dont live in an igloo (its 35 degree celcius right now), I enjoy pop not soda, beavers are great and so are tuks, balaclavas, snow-mobiles, drinking legally at 19 years old, I dont actually say “eh” every other word,I like being able to leave my windows open at night and my door unlocked, peace-keeping is the way to go, its (sounds) ABOWT not ABOOT and ROOF not RUFF…and its ZED not ZEE (Z) Colour not Color, Theatre not Theater….I can go on.
If you dont like Canada…we dont care…cause we dont like you either….so say what you want..Ill sit back and not care…
Oh…and the documentary…shame-ful, shame-ful….never should of been like that!
@Willis, I know exactly how you feel about being racist towards Canadian First Nations people. I’m a proud Albertan and I feel like I’m in the same position: I work part-time at a liquor store on the outskirts of Edmonton and right outside a First Nations reserve. I’ve seen a lot, and there really is a lot of violence on the reserves, teen pregnancies, alcoholism, gangs – everything. I’m sorry to say that the vast majority of theft, vandilism, and violence in my neighbourhood is related to the First Nations people (I can’t believe I just typed that, I feel terrible saying that.)Its just so sad, and most of the time you feel so powerless to stop it.
The treatment of First Nations people in this country is definitely one of Canada’s biggest problems. I’ve been to a few reserves in Alberta, and its like stepping into a third-world country; there’s so much poverty and its unbelievable to think a place like this exists not only in Canada, but less than 20 km away from my home. I’m very curious to see what an American Native reserve looks like – is it roughly the same? As Canadians, we have to overcome these sterotypes and really find an efficient way to help these people.
Wow seriously, I just can’t believe this. I posted my first comment before actually watching the film, and I’m watching it now.
I can’t believe that so many Canadians really don’t know about what happened in the residential schools. I remember studying a single chapter in high school on the subject, but we were taught to sort of down play it. Americans have a grisly history as well, but at least they awknowlege it and know what happened.
Its embarassing to think we as Canadians are so ignorant about our own past. I’m from Edmonton, and to think this went on in my city only 50 years ago. I feel very uncomfortable watching this…
@everyone who responded to Andrew
I think his comment was a joke :) (I mean what else could it be…)
I am Canadian and deeply ashamed of what happened and is still happening. Annet has a great article on his site about ending genocide in Canada: http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
Isn’t god wonderful? Why does it have to take so long for ‘humans’ to realize that everything to do with this concept only generates more misery?
In 1891 Cecil Rhodes along with other wealthy Englishmen founded the Committee of 300, where Rhodes wrote their intentions;
“And we are rich in an inheritance of honor, bequeathed to us through a thousand years of noble history, which it should be our daily thirst to increase with splendid avarice, so that Englishmen, if it be a sin to covet honor, should be the most offending souls alive…” He goes on to say “If we had retained America there would be at the present moment many millions more of English living. I contend that we are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit the better off the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimen of human beings, what an alteration there would be in them if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence.”
“The extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom and colonization by British subjects of all lands. from the occupation of the Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Euphrates, the islands of Cyprus, the whole of South America, the Seaboard of Chinaand Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire,the consolidation of the whole Empire, the inauguration of a system of Colonial Representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed members of the Empire…”
I think this is bigger than Just the churches, **** always rolls down hill, every thing those Elitists planned has come about and were living it… God didnt kill those children! Its your Rulers that are to blame for all genocides, Hitler just copied what committee of 300 brought about, or maybe he was one of theirs. The Wicked always crave positions of Power and gravitate to levels of control. Don’t Blame God for our mess, But I pray God raise up the people to put and end to such evil tyranny.