Secrets Buried in Unmarked Graves: Residential Schools
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- Hi friends, happy Thursday!
Welcome to the Dark History podcast. Today, we are going to talk about how the Indigenous children of North America were forced into Residential Schools all with the intention to destroy the very culture their families were trying to preserve.
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Chapters:
00:00 INTRO
02:27 ANDREW JACKSON AND THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
05:12 THE ALTERNATIVE TO MURDER
09:00 CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL
14:40 PLENTY KILL’S STORY
20:43 MISTREATMENT OF STUDENTS
28:16 WORD GETS BACK TO THE TRIBES
30:13 CANADIAN SCHOOLS ARE SOMEHOW WORSE
34:14 THE END OF INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS
41:13 CONCLUSION
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This podcast is Executive Produced by:
Bailey Sarian, Kim Jacobs, Dunia McNeily 3Arts, Claire Turner, and Ed Simpson from Wheelhouse DNA
Producer: Lexxi Kiven, Derrial Christon and Spencer Strasmore
Research provided by: Tisha Dunstan
Writers: Jed Bookout, Michael Oberst, Joey Scavuzzo
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Historical Consultants: Winona Wheeler, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan
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I'm a first generation of not going to a "residential school." Let that sink in. If you think this is a thing of the past, it's not. Thanks for doing this episode.
My step dad has never been to a school like this, he is 79
I've seen some people saying "Let it go, it's a thing in the past. No more racism." Or something along those lines and reading your comment made those statements even more sick
@@munginosal2135 people can't seem to grasp the last school closed in 1996. These same people would cry themselves into a stupor if dropped on a reserve with no clean or running water. People tend to be very ignorant sadly.
Tears ran down my face
Me too, I feel you ❤️ thank you Bailey for doing this episode
Being an indigenous women, and a daughter of a residential school survivor, seeing you talk about residential schools makes me feel like our voices are finally being heard, thank you Bailey!
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Laura Roberts. Thank you so much for sharing. and I'm so glad that you are here because of the Survivor of the schools. I hope that made sense. When I lived on the west coast I knew many indigenous people. I have lost track because I lost my phone book. Thought I missed the San Jacinto Indian Reservation. I have friends there and I was always very welcome. They just made me family. Much love and again thank you for sharing. And I'm sorry though horrible horrible things that have been done to your ancestors.
AGREED! THIS IS SO HUGE!
What i don't get, is a baseball team that got its name from its gratitude for native Americans & how a native American is the reason they made it to the hall of fame, had to change its name, but a white woman can get paid by talking about your misery... they took away an accomplishment & replaced it with pain.
(I edited this comment, I miss spoke. I said football but I ment baseball. Maybe this is where a lot if the confusion was originally stimed from when people thought i was referring to the "redskins" when I was actually walking about the "Cleveland Indians".)
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My grandpa still has his dogtag from one of the residential schools. He just turned 70 and he still cries almost every time I see him. He cannot speak about it and I still don’t know which one he went to. He will never speak about it but I truly respect that. Thanks so much Bailey for doing this
Many didn't it was just too painful besides they were shamed for being Indian that was bad enough and the indignation they experienced was horrific and ulimately they internalized it seeing themselves negatively and suffered for generation. However there have been big changes since practicing their cultural practices that is no longer against the law.
Can I ask what tribe? My grandma was mescalero apache near New Mexico. My blood mystery ill never know always looking
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I’ve never experienced any form of child abuse. I can not relate nor comprehend the magnitude of abuse and all that took place with all of those children. How heart breaking
Being a daughter of residential school survivors… this was so hard to hear. I can’t tell you how many tears I’ve cried. I live hours away from the original site where remains were found, and in January, a local residential school (the one my mom and dad went to) will be releasing their statement of how many remains they found. My heart isn’t ready, the subject all together is hard, and Bailey I wanted to say thank you for bringing light to this.
This is how we heal, by talking and educating others, and challenging ourselves to do and be better.
Sechanalyagh, thank you,
True. Healing comes from truth and moving forward from there. If the truth is always hidden then there is no way to move forward
Where were remains(actual bodies) found?
Same for me...🖤❤️💛🤍
I am a Canadian residential school survivor. I am 51 years old.. its not ancient history.. my community was given the grounds of former residential school . We are currently searching our grounds for bodies of missing children. Bailey.. thank you for your voice and teaching the untold truths of my people.
Love and strength to you. I am a canadian who was lied to and not taught about it through school or my parents. Peace and healing to your family.
Wow that's sad the government should be searching not you ... it's great Bailey is bringing awareness to your search but I wish she went into William combes story
My mom is Canadian and is part Indian from her mother’s side. In fact, Brantford, Ontario is named after my ancestor that was a chief. I’ve never heard of these schools,ever. I will have to ask my mom about this. Of course, I’m not sure if my grandma would even know much because it was her dad that was Indian and was with my great grandma who was white. He wasn’t faithful and didn’t stick around so I’m not really sure how much of his family my grandma knows much about to even know if they had to endure these schools. This is so sad. I’m so sorry you had to go through any of this and I truly pray you can bring peace with your search.
Thank you for your voice too starla 🧡 I'm glad you made it
Hugs to you sister. Stay safe💞
My mother and father met in residential school. She came home pregnant with me. I'm the first generation to not go to residential school. I'm an intergenerational trauma cycle breaker. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Every Child Matters 🧡🧡
Every child, even those yet to be born.
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So glad that you came out of that. So so so sorry your family has this trauma.
No one cares, stop trying so hard to label yourself
@@LeneeLenee alot of people care, no one cares about your unnecessary ignorant comment though.
I really appreciate you not only using terminology for this (colonization, colonizers, white washing) and telling it like it is! The school systems have romanticized a lot of history.
This same process also happened in New Zealand though it looked slightly different. Māori, the indigenous people, were beaten or abused for speaking their language or expressing their culture at schools and this was legitimately written into laws that existed right the way into I think the 60's. Pretty similar story of displacement from land etc as happened in the US and Canada. It seems no matter where the British went they were horrifyingly consistent with their treatment of indigenous peoples
Same in Australia
Australia was the same...
Colonization is a disgrace to history regardless of borderlines. Once strong beautiful civilizations, destroyed at the hands of greedy European conquistadors!! My your people find healing in their knowledge of their true history
My sister said she probably kept ivory soap in business for all the times she spoke Cherokee and got in trouble. Cherokee is our first language.👍🏽
Kind of the same thing happened in Norway, but it was not by British colonizers
as a person who’s mom went to residential schools in Canada, I’m only 16 and I’m so glad your spreading awareness about this. ITS NOT IN THE PAST
This make my soul ache. Sending loving vibes your way. I pray nothing but the best for your futures ❤️
@@lorajackson9502 me too, I am so sorry for what they went through!
Our holier than thou Prime Minister Justin Trudeau further insults the indigenous people by not dealing with getting clean drinking water to reservations but continually virtue signals on this residential school issue. As a white Canadian, I am so privileged to have clean drinking water and these reservations should have the same privilege. Our Prime Minister was approached at a fund raiser that he was having and an indigenous person was there to confront him about the drinking water issue and all that our PM said was "thankyou for your donation". He will not own the fact that it was the French Liberals that started these residential schools. As far as I know, he has not apologized for the actions of his ancestors but makes the rest of us feel guilty.
@@angelabrolund1373 also P.M. Trudeau fighting in court to not pay the Indigenous children. Taking off to go surfing on the very first official Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation Day. He truly makes me hate him.
Sending love and healing to you and your family ❤️
As a indigenous woman, this makes me absolutely happy that a influencer is talking about this and educating the CZcams platform, none of my role models have not spread any awareness WHATSOEVER!! Bailey I’m manifesting you get the success you DESERVE!
Thank you for speaking up with our people.
Bailey truly is a blessing and unique content creator. More depth than most. Much love to her. 💜💜
Not indigenous, but an ally...I will be using this video for my son's history class for homeschooling. We're at the colonization period, and I'm not sugar coating anything for him, so he gets to know the truth. No mainstream schooling curriculum!
thank you so much, I know many people who homeschool would graze over this period just out of ignorance. thank you for teaching your son about this. you are amazing!!!❤️
NO CRT
@@donaldcash113 You ppl still talk about that?
Thank you! Speak up loud and proud! Find the stories online, make sure they are properly sourced and properly wrote!
Awesome 👏🏾
Your hair is connected to your spirit. I didn’t go to a residential school but my grandparents did & the affects of residential schools are still prevalent in the current times . It’s generational trauma .
For those of you that may not know, this “history” was carried on till 1996. Which is when the last residential school was finally closed. Thats only 25 years ago, This history is still fresh and still effects a lot of us and our families to this day. 1996, I was born in 2000. We were the generation that got away but still carry the generational trauma and heartache of our past loved ones that suffered. This is very important and not talked about enough, Thank you for speaking up for us on your platform. You have my whole heart and all my respect. 🧡 Hiy Hiy Bailey. (Thank you in Cree language)
Yes. I was going to say just this. 1996 was when the last residential school was closed. Think about that! That means there are 30 year old who have gone to a residential school. Not history at all!
I do know this and thszs just insane to me. Im from Kamloops and the very last school to close was in British Columbia, completely sick.
There’s actually still residential schools in operation
Considering parliament didn't even apologize until 2008 it definitely isn't talked about enough...
It was a horrendous wake up call to know my brother and I would have gone to a residential school if we had been raised on our home reserve. We are in our 30’s. It breaks my heart to know that we tried WWII war criminals while still “teaching the Indian” out of my ancestors.
“Every indigenous person you meet is either 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation survivor of Indian residential schools. Let that sink in” Thank you for using your platform to shed light on this.
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Yup I'm 1st generation my kids r 2nd my parents were both in residential school .
@SkyCop Wife yeah neanderthalers came from africa. Or wait... was it called africa? Were there dinosaurs too? I have hard time remembering, it's a while ago
You were there? Tell us, plz, enlighten us
@SkyCop Wife what does your family being from India have to do with anything?
@SkyCop Wife shut up.
Last summer here in South Dakota on the rosebud reservation, bodies of children finally got to come home! We're given a traditional burial. This has taken so long to achieve and was very emotional.
My great grandma was a residential school survivor and she never told us about her experiences and she took the trauma and horrible memories with her to the creator. I miss you so much Éna💔
❤️9/14/38 ~ 9/30/21❤️
May she have a restful journey to the milky-way, so sorry for your loss. My grandpa still cries, about it as well. Miigwetch for sharing❤️
Not even 50 years ago…the last residential school to close in Canada was in 1997 and and so far they found 7310 bodies of children who were ripped away from their families (as young as 2 years old) never to return home, and never to get the justice they deserve! Thank you for bringing more awareness to this dark history that they tried so hard for decades to sweep under the rug.
Wow can't believe that really happened?! Oh my
@@j.j.2312 I would not buy any orange shirt from any big name corporation, I much prefer to get mine from the indigenous community where I am from
My grandpa was sent to one in Ontario. It was so traumatic that he fled Canada to Michigan and never spoke of his childhood. Coincidentally he married another survivor of a residential school, but in Michigan. My grandma did talk about her childhood.
@@j.j.2312 Mine is a knit orange sweater by my mumu (My great grandma), I made an attachment which has our clans animal
The number of unmarked Graves st these residential scools in Canada, as of today April 2022, is is 10,200.
I saw the title and immediately started crying. It means so much to me that you're speaking up about this. Still dealing with the intergenerational trauma that resulted from these schools. Thank you
My haters throw rocks at me and IT hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! I am the funniest CZcamsr EVAH! Please agree, dear ne
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@@AxxLAfriku read the room, bruh
@@AxxLAfriku I am so confused
As a Native American watching this & hearing someone other than another Native American telling this story is so emotional because historical trauma is real. You are born being in fear because of what are ancestors were forced to be so strong through. We’re born in alcoholism & loss of language & cultural knowledge. I cry thinking back at how innocent & pure they were but if it wasn’t for all that.. I wouldn’t be here. It’s amazing to think the type of people we were all formed from & thank you so much for sharing this knowledge because many don’t even know we still exist & nor were any non-natives ever taught that this is what my people had to go through 🥲 My grandma first told me about this when I was so young & I remember her saying she was beat everytime she tried to speak Apache & how she felt when her siblings were taken.. thank you so setting so many spirits free & can now rest🧡😞
My mom survived Stewart Boarding school in Carson City, NV. She is now almost 80 years old and she still remembers everything she endured. Most people do not realize this school was in operation until 1980.
My 31 year old brother was the last generation of residential school survivors. In 1996. He passed on Oct 27, 2021. He always spoke about his trauma and systematic marginalization. I am a residential school survivor as well, my brother and I took different paths. 😔
Thank you for bringing an awareness to this issue. 🙏
I'm so sorry for the loss of your brother and for what you both went through. ❤️
So sorry for your loss. So young x
So sorry for your loss. And the trauma. I am so sorry. 💔
Oh my heart 💔 I'm so sorry 🌻
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As a generational survivor of residential schools, this was quite hard to watch, but I’m massively glad you talked about it. Every child matters.
I'm so sorry for whatever happened to you. Proud of you for becoming a Survivor of it though. I hope life is being kinder to you now. Love from Scotland.❤
@@laneclarky719 much love lane!! Coming from Canada and sending much positivity and I thank you. ❤️
@@aspirinaomi Thank you sweetie... For the love and positivity. It's so very badly needed right now. Have a peaceful day Canada.❤
I’m so sorry you were in one of those evil places but so glad you survived.
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Money and religion are the root of all evil, nothing truer than that.
Watching this from Zambia, Africa and this was heartbreaking to hear, my heart goes out to ythe families of the survivors
It also happened to many aboriginals of a lot of countrues. The aborigines of australia were taken from their tribes as well order from the queen.
I love people who claim money is the root of all evil. And claiming morality is the key to evil is insane.
The genocide in Canada is ongoing and most people don't realize it never stopped
@@Giveitathought religion and morality are not synonymous
It's just pure EVIL 😡
My mom didn’t share stories from her time at one of these schools until me and my siblings were adults. One story that sticks out is when she showed us a divot in her back that she got when she was forced to lay on a hard bench for hours as punishment. She also admitted later that the reason why my siblings and I don’t know how to speak our language is because she was afraid that if we were caught speaking Navajo in this country, we would be punished the way she was at this school. I’m only 37, and my mom went through this. That’s how recent this was.
“They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were the seeds!” 🌱 thank you for addressing this
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Awe! That's beautiful!
My family is full of survivors of residential schools. I'm proud of my family, being indigenous, and how resilient our people are. Thank you so much for addressing this, Bailey!
Let the healing begin.
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I am an indigenous women of the Cherokee and Seminole thank you for sharing the truth of what really happened. Although I never lived through it I plan on learning my true culture and roots.
I totally relate to the “why????” feeling of it all. It’s just so hard to wrap my head around such horrific abuse and just the concept of racism itself is so like ???????? It’s just utterly devastating and confusing and horrible to know this all happened and I wish I could go back in time to stop it
My parents and grandparents are residential school survivors. The last one in Saskatchewan closed in 1996, I was 4 years old! I’m 29 years old today and was the first generation to not attend. For most of us, the acknowledgement is huge, as we still live with intergenerational trauma today. Thank you.
My parents were born in 1986 and were like 8 or sum when they were in a residential school as weree my grandparents before them, I'm 17 today and there is alot of post generational trauma for sure. It's hard but this brings light to it as we're finally being acknowledged for it and people are becoming more educated upon it.
1996!!!!! Let that sink in...
my grandmother attended a residential school… as an Indigenous woman living in CANADA I appreciate this awareness raised on these institutions. IT IS NOT ONLY THE UNITED STATES!!! thank you so much bailey! i have been a fan for years now.. I really truly appreciate everything you talk about in this video. although myself or my parents did not attend residential school, i can still feel the effects of intergenerational trauma today. THANK YOU!
Give your grandma a nice warm hug, the horrible things she must have gone through at the hands of us is disgusting. She's more canadian then any of us white canadians, natives have been here longer, and generally are a much nicer people.
I think Australia had done something similar with the aboriginals there as well.
My grandma was in Residential School too and we still have the building and church/graveyard that was from the school. It’s so sad and scary to think that there’s so many more unmarked graves all over Canada and the US.
@@cherizangel yes! i have heard that they are extremely similar to the Aboriginal people living there as well! Definitely another topic that can be shared by Bailey for this series if she has not done it already.
Canada has now found over 7000 indigenous children that were buried at residential schools. Thousands of kids or still missing, The Catholic Church said these children where adopted out to parents in the United States. That’s why they couldn’t account for the missing children. Now we know they were never adopted they were killed and buried to hide the Catholic Church and the governments atrocities. This is a shame Canada can never live down.
As a great granddaughter of a survivor it’s so heartbreaking knowing my culture got robbed from us… this story was very well told. We appreciate you using your platform to educate because still to this day our people get robbed by living in property and set up for failure. Not very many of us have the platform you do so thank you.
The ongoing environmental racism and discrimination is so maddening. I’m sorry this has happened to you and all your people. I hope that this generation can make real change in the near future! We can reclaim the power ❤
Sadly, the exact same system was used in Australia and New Zealand and they didn't close until mid 1980s. We have to address these horrors in a full frontal approach, no more 'it's in the past, move on.' Well done Bail.
The last one closed was in 1996 over here :(
As an indigenous woman and the granddaughter of residential school survivors. Thank you Bailey ❤ Sending you love and happiness from Manitoba, Canada
Me too my parents are day school survivors and my grandparents are residential school survivors
Did anyone else hear her say "cult-inizers" when Bailey said colonizers.... because that's more appropriate
In Manitoba too…. It’s too real
I have a question about the last names... are the last names translated from a native language to English? Or are they just English names
Me too. It sometimes seems like nobody cares. Thank you Bailey for covering this❤️
I’m a First Nations woman from Canada and my parents were sent to an “Indian bible” school in the states where abuse was still happening in the 60/70s. And the last residential school in Canada was closed in 1997.
Thank you for bringing awareness to what has happened to our people and what still affects us to this day.
We matter 🤍
We are resilient 🤍
We are still here 🤍
You and your people are the most resilient and courageous people I have ever met. I know it changes absolutely nothing, but I am so deeply sorry for everything. Sending you love from Québec 🖤🙏
As a fellow Canadian I offer up my sincerest apologies for what my ancestors have done. It isn't right and it isn't ok. And I hope that now we are on the right path to doing better when it comes to our first Nation brothers and sisters! ❤️😓
Actually 1998 was the last school. Tansi sister from alberta
@@kathryngoodison1264 I’ve heard 96/97/98 the last one was closed. I wasn’t quite sure. I’ve always just heard 96/97 growing up. Still so sad it wasn’t even that long ago. I was 8 years old when the last one closed💔
@@alexegiroux5703 thank you 🤍🤍
My father was a survivor of the residential school system and I will NEVER stop telling his story to people who are willing to listen. Now that a lot of attention has been brought up about the residential schools and their students I spend a lot of time consoling my father because he spent a lot of time trying to forget but it feels like a lot of it is being brought up again.
Thank you for covering this. My 8 yr old son learnt this from school and he felt so betrayed and traumatized by what the government did to those poor indigenous kids and parents. He was so upset to learn this. We are Asian and non related to indigenous, however, we are all human and deserve the same respect.
I feel the same about the internment of the Japanese on the west coast during world war 2. The government took their houses, took their belongings and sent them to live in camps with houses that we not insulated. Even those that had no ties to Japan, were 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation Canadians. Despicable!
In Canada they’ve been finding bodies like crazy lately. It’s disgusting! They closed the last school in 1996. I’m glad these stories are being shared and people like you are shining light on the real history of what happened to the indigenous people.
They closed the last school in 1996???!!!!! That's literally now. I cannot believe how long these schools actually stayed open.
I’m from that reservation, my old elementary school, is right beside where that old residential school used to stand, they just started looking for the babies that were lost.
I always think about how I literally grew up on my ancestors, all the happy memories, all on top of my grandparents.
@@theeditor1149 there still some open in the U.S
@@elisabethst.pierre7767 They will be closed here soon. The United nations just declared the United States and Catholic Churches committed 5 counts of genocide for this tragedy on October 23rd and they have wiped it from every american news source. They are about to be turned upside down and punishment will ensue when the entire body count is found. Canada was pardoned due to the lenni Lenape Tribe proving they were just a patsy set up by President Cleveland in 1894.
Yeah this is all I could think about watching this, that the last school was closed in 1996 and how there’s SO many bodies being found in Canada to this day 🥺😣
I’m an indigenous woman, of the Mohawk tribe from the Six Nation reserve in Ontario Canada. The residential school, next to my reserve is called the Mohawk residential school/ The Mush hole. That school closed in 1996, 4 years before I was born. My great grandmother, and my grandfather, and many aunts, uncles and cousins are/were survivors. Thank you for helping us feel heard. Thank you for educating others.
You were so close to going, I’m glad you didn’t. Stay strong, keep your roots, and fight back! -A fellow Mohawk survivors granddaughter
I'm British, I knew your people had been treated in the most horrendous ways but I'd never heard of these evil "schools" before. I'm even more shocked they only fully closed in the 90s. They sound like concentration camps. I am so sorry your family had to suffer the trauma of these places and I'm so pleased you didn't. I can't find the words I'm looking for. This is something everyone should know about 💜
Family. My gramma was adopted by a white family. But the way history talks about our people they all died of smallpox
The fact that it lasted until the mid 90's is outrageous
I cannot believe this was going on as recently as the 90s!
my dad was put in a residential school, it bothers me when people say theyre apart of the past, bc theyre not. thank you sm for making a video abt this
thank you sm for making this video, i am a grandson of a residential school survivor here in canada.. i am 26 years of age & also have been to a residential school (which wasn’t used as the same but got lashings from teachers still as the abuse was still in act) until the 3rd grade here located where i was born & raised.. this was very hard to watch as i still feel the hurt & heartbreak my ancestors & grand parents had gone through. as one of your viewers i thank you from the bottom of my heart for talking about such a horrible thing which happened. I LOVE YOU BAILEY 🖤 keep speaking the truth for those of us who cannot reach out to others the way you do.
I’m the granddaughter of residential school survivors, my grandparents went to Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. They are currently looking into ground penetrating radar to search the grounds, after the urges of community members, students and survivors. It was emotional watching this, but much needed. Pilámaya (thank you), Bailey!
Wow. I’m so sorry your voices were literally silenced. And still kind of are. It’s ridiculous. I am so sorry for the trauma your grandparent had to endure but I fully respect them for it ❤️
My grandparents are survivors of residential school. Hearing about the stories they told me were so heartbreaking 💔 thank you so much Bailey 🙌🏼❤️
Mine too it’s hard to hear but we have strong elders. I would recommend the movie Indian Horse to anyone who needs a visual and to be honest the movie it’s “light” even tho it’s heavy
@@senecaclark5776 I will check that out. Thank you.
My great grandfather was a survivor too 😕 I never hear the stories from the source because I wasn’t tooooo close to my grandmother. But I hear second hand accounts of what happened 🥺
This is just so heartbreaking… it makes me so mad that indigenous people from Canada all the way down to South America were forced to forget their cultures. Many of us are lost when it comes to our ancestry because our ancestors’ cultures were wiped out. We had a beautiful thing stolen from us.
I am a Canadian. I am happy that they teach us these stories in school. It helps give awareness
I wish they did in America
I'm Northern Ute from Utah, my grandparents are residential school survivors. They refuse to talk about anything that happened to them. This is bringing light to situations that most media don't like to cover. THANK YOU BAILEY! ❤ I've been a fan since i saw your grunge look on Facebook! ❤
Did your grandparents go to the school in Brigham City?
@@mdearden9783 yes. And my great grandma went to the one in whiterocks
@@dasy7730 I am so sorry that happened to any member of your family 😢😢😢😢😢
As an indigenous woman who's family grew up in residential schools the horror stories heard since I was a young girl. It saddens me. Bailey thank you
I am so sorry for what happened to your family. The Canadian Government is just as guilty of the same crimes. And it's ALL coming to light. (I didn't know Bailey was going to speak about the cdn gov. I am glad she did though!) People can be so cruel. We cannot erase the past but I hope we can change the future. Because apologies are just not enough.
By the way, you are absolutely gorgeous girl! ❤️
I'm so sorry your family was forced to suffer so much. We need to do better.
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🙏 Sending light, love & positive vibes your way💚🕊️ I can't even begin to imagine
My grandparents are residential school survivors and my mother also went to an Indian day school. Witch was NO BETTER than residential school, other than being able to go home.
Would be awesome to hear you talk about the stolen generation in Australia, it is very similar to this story but very different also
My grandmother hid in the bush of Northern Ontario to avoid going to residential school in the 1940s. She grew up speaking Ojibwe and Cree and only started learning English around age 17 after she was old enough to not be taken away.
This is awful (the fact she had to hide) but an incredible act of rebellion. All the love to her, she’s a powerful woman!
Awe, I feel for you deeply. My great grampa hid in the bush’s too when the rcmp would come to take the kids
all of my direct family from my moms side was forced into residential schools and my grandma was in a residential school and one of her brothers and one of her sisters died in one of those schools
My grandmother was hidden too, but still went through a lot of horrible things in her life. My mom went to day school and has only been unpacking that along with the trauma from my grandmother's abuse the past couple years, its been rough. They are still fluent speakers and both taught me valuable traditional knowledge that I am forever grateful for.
As a indigenous woman I'm so glad our voices/stories are being heard. The children didn't deserve anything that happened to them at all. Makes my heart hurt.
I'm so angry about how this happened and nobody thought it was wrong?!? How can THAT MANY people "in power" and that many adults think this kind of treatment of children was okay. How did it stay quiet? How did questions and flags not get raised? How did the government do nothing? It doesn't make sense
I knew you made a video about this because I seen alot of friends share it on facebook. I honestly could not watch it until now, it's heavy stuff and it hurts my heart knowing my family were subjected to abuse and other things they could never speak of. All my grandparents went to residential schools (St. Anne's & Hordon Hall) and my parents went to the day schools (Moose Fort I think it was called). Not only them, but a bunch of my auntie and uncles attended as well. It has and still affects our lives today with the intergenerational trauma. As well as the systemic racism that still exists to this day. It can be hard to deal with sometimes. Thankfully, I am healing and I try to teach my kids the real truth and about healing too. I teach them to not be ashamed about being Indigenous and to be proud of who they are, I tell them that through the bad stuff that has happened to our people, we can still heal and embrace our traditional culture and through that will come even more healing. I always pray for continued healing for all my people because there are alot of social issues that exist within our communities as a result of colonization and the residential schools that came with it. Again, it was nice to see someone speak of this dark history. Thank you/Miigwech.
My great grandmother was a survivor. I hope all those children will forever be remembered and forever loved.
I am Ponca, and a direct decendant of Chief Standing Bear... my grand parents often talked of the residential schools and how awful they are. Thank you for sheding light on this and giving this a larger platform. You are amazing!!
I’m Scottish, have nothing in my history with the Native Americans, but listening to this breaks my heart.
And my heart goes out to all the survivors of these schools.
May there ancestors look over them.
And may the feel my love💜
As a native American woman, I teared up on this one. I personally never went through this but it still broke me because these are my people ❤️ I did go to high school in Oklahoma it was a boarding school I went by choice to do something different and I Loved it , everyone was there by choice. Crazy how times do change I'm grateful for being INDIGENOUS
Thank you for shedding light on this subject. Please look up the story of the missing students that were rumored to disappear after a picnic with queen Elizabeth!! Like what did she do with them?!? I’m so proud of you!! Go Bailey!! My mom and grandparents went too.
My daughter's great grandma is native Alaskan, the stories she has is absolutely heartbreaking. I remember she would whisper to my daughter in her native tounge, I asked her why she whispered. The fact that they would beat them if they spoke their language broke my heart. It's disgusting how people can treat another human being like that.
Thank you for sharing, I think your example shows perfectly what an awful long lasting effect places like this had on the children. Hopefully by recognizing such atrocities we can prevent them from ever happening again.
My grandmother taught me to speak my native language in private and the only time I heard her speak was when we were alone or with other elders. The trauma didn’t go away when the schools closed and it will last for generations to come.
My grandfather and grandmother refused to tell my sister's and I about our heritage out of fear.. I was told "You look white, live like you're white."
My Nonna refused to reach me, if I did speak any of it, she’d strike me. I understand why she’d do it but it still hurt to be cut off from my heritage
@@mistermothman5267 it's absolutely horrible what happened to the elders. Praying for a better future and mending the past and learning it, so these tragedies never happen again. Thank you for sharing ❤️
My Grandmother that has since passed on to the Spirit World was a residential school survivor. My Parents, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins all attended indian day schools that operated in Canada. Intergenerational trauma is real. Thank you, Bailey for being a voice and shedding light on the experiences of the Indigenous community. Chi Miigwetch.
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"Taking a left into funky a$$ oopsie town" this is why I'm addicted to this channel... Bailey, you are hilarious and so serious at the same time. You have inspired me to research some of these dark topics and you are so thorough in your descriptions, you're the best history teacher I've ever met (and world history & government were my majors in college).
Being an indigenous woman from family who were forced into those schools is heartbreaking. Thank you Bailey so much for letting our voices be heard ❤️
For anyone wanting to learn more, there is a documentary called “We Were Children”. this documentary changed my life and the way I advocate for indigenous peoples in Canada ❤️
I saw that. Very sad.
Great documentary
Oh yes, it’s a hard documentary to watch (gut wrenching!)…but so well done. Great recommendation! 🧡
I watched that it was so horrible I cried.
Where can i watch
My grandma and grandpa were residential school survivors. They married when my grandma was 13! My grandpa was 16. They married so young to get away from the church. Thank you for this. 🧡
This is so hard to hear about but exactly why we need to discuss it! “When you know better, you do better” (learned from another CZcamsr, Peter Monn!) It’s disgusting to think these schools were a “better alternative” to outright genocide and they weren’t that much kinder in practice! I can’t imagine sending my child to one of these and then casually being told, as a side note, that they had died… literally a nightmare that these people had to go through!
It’s so heartbreaking to hear what these children experienced, and it absolutely disgusting that all of this has been swept under the rug and isn’t being talked about! Thank you so much for covering this topic!
As an Indigenous woman & granddaughter of a survivor from the residential schools on the Navajo Reservation…I’d like to say thank you for using your platform to share the heartbreaking truth & sharing their stories. Even though they try to erase us, we’re still here. 🖤
Liking to boost .. and to sit here to hold space with you.. n listen
We are still here, we will not be wiped out, we were here first 💔
Please keep existing, don't give up, we need you, this world needs you!🖤
Yes, we are.
My dad won’t talk about his experience at residential school, and my mom said at day school they were given dog biscuits to eat. And a female teacher would expose herself to them little kids. Thanks for this video Bailey ❤️
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Im so sorry, i hope your family is doing well now
People can be evil!!!!
That’s absolutely horrifying.. I can’t even imagine..💔
True evil really exist, im very sorry they had to bare thru the evil corrupt things they did to innocent ppl.
Thank you Bailey for informing us all about the dark history of Indian residential schools. I feel extremely grateful for living in a time where I don't have to experience what my elders have lived through. I just pray for the children that have not been found to find passage to the spirit world with Peace & Love.
My mom, and my grandma both were in residential schools, and neither of them ever want to tell me anything about the indigenous schools, because of how horrible it was. Growing up native in a Caucasian society is really hard, because everyone thinks of natives as either insanely religious or either satanic people who drink 24/7. I am half native and half Caucasian so people call me an apple (Red outside, white inside), but I try and show how much I honor my culture and honor my ancestors who fought so I can be living right now. If you thought what Bailey said in this was horrible, it’s not even the whole story to residential schools, but everything she said was correct, what is absolutely amazing. I have seen natives themselves get their information wrong, but for Bailey getting her information correct is so breathtaking that she has such a passion for what she does. THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING UP FOR NATIVES BAILEY!
Im also the first generation that didnt goes in residential school. My dad goes to one of them, the mashteuiatsh residential school. And this is something that we dont talk about at home, it remains a taboo in my family. Thank you making an episode about it🧡
Oh my goodness!!! I am so sorry!!!! From the doc I watched on it, that was one of the worst... They are so strong to have survived that place...
I live about 15 miles from the site of the Chilocco Indian School. My great grandparents met and taught there together and it was NOT presented truthfully to me when I was told the stories. It’s so important to speak honestly about this sordid history.
You are doing humanity a service by highlighting these stories on your platform. I love you so much Bailey ❤️
I'm a sixties scoop survivor. Both my parents are residential school survivors. Thank you Bailey for bringing more awareness of our history to the world 🌎
This is another issue that needs to be brought to light. The 60's scoop here in Canada was another attempt to take the "indian" out of he person, so sad and so wrong
Bailey should cover the Sixties Scoop too. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Hope you are doing well now! ❤️
As an indigenous woman who is a descendant of boarding school survivors, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this video and bringing awareness. Our people suffer from deep historical trauma from these schools and watching this brought tears to my eyes. 😭
So sorry i cant believe this was a thing. my heart breaks for your family and people :'(
I watch Bailey, all the time & I never seen any of her Dark History hit her this hard & I understand why; it involves innocent children; this is heart breaking to listen to; I was like Bailey; in the dark with this part of history. 💔
Thank You, Bailey for bringing this up to many peoples attention.
Imagine being ripped away from your kind and loving family/community and suddenly being forced to endure such harsh and horrifying abuse and not being able to get away from it until you’re 18 just because you were born into a different culture. These weren’t schools, these were prisons. And it makes so angry to know that I was NEVER taught any of this in school. If we don’t teach children about this, it’s bound to happen again
I think this is exactly what we should be doing about these HORRIBLE historic acts. Spreading the FACTS and educating others
exactly!!!
Not removing the signs of them.
Learning the truth is important -- but what's happening is that those who learn about the wrongs that happened to their people -- are NOW taking it out on the generation of children whose distant (apparently white) relatives were guilty of being racists. How is this fair to the children of these past 'wrong-doers'? How is taking retribution out on their children who are innocent going to help society? How is turning the tables on today's white children and scorning them for things that their forefathers did the right thing to do?
How is sewing 'new seeds' of racism but now towards whites the answer? Children are NOT born racist! Racism is taught BY ADULTS. So that being said, how do you stop Racist Parents from teaching their children to become racists -- THAT SHOULD BE THE GOAL -- not teaching white children to feel bad about themselves for what their 'forefathers' did. White children can't change the past.
Maybe every parent should be given a polygraph test and asked "Have you ever used the N-word?" And, maybe that would be a wake-up call for those who are racists! Leave the children alone! They are innocent. *The schools teaching children of color to hate whites IS NOT the answer!*
@@monav4062 no one’s telling whites to feel bad about themselves-- it’s about stopping history from repeating itself. Awareness! Knowledge! Kindness. Empathy! When has any of that ever been a bad thing …. except when whites feel victimized?
@@monav4062 it’s not the responsibility of people of colour to ensure that white people don’t get their feelings hurt by hiding the truth. It’s delusional. And you still have white people acting racist. Informing people about history promotes a better understanding of each other and therefore prevents nasty stereotypes that come from racist views. Silencing poc’s history to protect white people’s feelings is a huge step back
When I was 11, in a Christian school, we were told to pick an event in history to teach. Being the only indigenous girl in my grade 6 class, I chose to talk about my culture and residential schools.
My stepmoms friend was a survivor of residential schools and offered to talk about her experience in front of my class. Asking my teacher and giving her a plan, her being hesitant but open minded as she seen how passionate I was. Then to be pulled out of class 2 weeks after our conversation by the principal and her and told “I believe that this presentation would be too disturbing and disruptive to your classmates.”
I went on the do my presentation without my stepmoms friend and was asked so many questions after. They were all so curious and wanted to know more about my culture. I don’t remember a single negative comment from that presentation in my classroom.
I'm glad you got to do your presentation. Imagine, not so horrible to actually put children through that but horrible to teach and talk about it. SMH
My tribe as well as many others have been here for more than 20,000 years. We are ancient who continue the ancient blood. To my fellow indigenous I love you and even though I wasn’t raised on a reservation, or in a way a lot of others were there’s something still so triggering to our history and I’m so thankful Bailey is sharing this.
As an indigenous woman ty for sharing and talking about this💓
Also they took our trail of tears out of the history books
My family is Bearpaw
Nu Che Bearpaw is a great great grandmother
Anyone else ball their eyes out? Knowing that our voices feels like it’s finally heard 😭 .. As an indigenous person, this means so much to me!! My grandparents are residential school survivors, however they don’t like to mention their time in the schools they attended. The last school closed in 1996, whenever I think of that, it’s crazy that it was only 25 years ago. 😢 - Thank you so much Bailey❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes.
Yes. When she asks, "what do we do now??" I thought... though it may not be a solution, I think it's right to grieve, because that IS holy. Even more so since we are doing it together during this time of year. Blessings to all on harvest~
I'm not Indigenous, but I am also crying my eyes out. My ancestors on my father's side are Pennsylvania Dutch and have been here since the 1700's. At the very least, they witnessed and supported this horrific abuse. I am so devastated and disgusted and it probably isn't even a drop in the bucket, but I am truly and deeply sorry for my ancestors actions and for the trauma they inflicted upon so many innocent people. I am teaching my children about *real* history (because we all know schools won't) and teaching them to be and do better. It is all I can do, and hopefully we can prevent anything even remotely similar from ever happening again. I am so glad that your voices are *finally* being heard 💜
My mother's grandpa hid her and her siblings so they didn't have to go. He did JAIL time for that. Jail time for protecting his grandkids. Thank you for talking about this Bailey. Every child matters 🧡🧡🧡
My friend’s dad hid his kids too- he went to a jail and saved his kids!! He truly protected his kids from evil!
Sending love to your family. Hearing this bring tears to my eyes.
That’s messed up
He got jail time for defending his family
So sorry that your family went through this
That’s a true dad - protecting his kids at all costs!!!
Not all heros wear capes ❤️❤️❤️
Some schools to this day, talk about some of the stories, it’s insane to even try to explain to others about our past, but because of the unmarked graves, people are starting to believe it now, thank you for talking about this, I have a grandfather that is also apart of the residential school
I'm so glad you do so many stories about Native history. I read so much of it when I was younger, it was an obsession of mine to learn about just how horrible our history is, and I barely ever scratched the surface on the residential schools. So don't feel bad that you didn't know about it. What's important is that we know now and talk about it. They deserve to have their stories heard.
I am only 22 years old and I am the child of a residential school survivor. I am the first generation in 5 generations not to be taken. This is not just history, this is right now and we are still dealing with the effects intergenerational trauma from residential schools.
My parents and grandparents are survivors of Residential schools. It’s heartbreaking what they had gone through when they tell me their stories when they were young.
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Same here, first generation that didn’t go.
Same. My great grandparents were survivors. My grandpa would have had to attend also but his parents moved him to keep Indian agents from getting him.
@@onseong same as well
It's so inhumane and racist. Disgusting. I'm glad the graves are being found so the poor kids can go home.
I live in Kamloops. This discovery shook my community to the core. The last residential school closed in 1996. I was 3 years old. My brothers could have very well been in that school, they weren’t, but they certainly could have been.
I teach preschool now and teach my classes about residential schools. I obviously don’t go into the graphic or horrific details but they learn about it and they learn about indigenous culture. I do my best to honor the children who attended these schools by sharing their culture and stories. I’m trying to keep their voices alive and pass on knowledge to future generations.
I love how your teaching is history we never have learned in schools. Plus I LOVE your outfit and makeup always!!
My dad couldn’t really talk to me about his time in these schools. The only time I ever remember him talking about it was when we were preparing for supper back in 2011 when I was 11 years old living in my reserve, I asked him what the schools were because we had watched a short film about it in class. He didn’t say much, he said they had classes and schedule to follow, he talked about his friends, then said he lost some friends. He cried after saying that, and couldn’t say much after that again. I just gave him a hug in silence for a few minutes and I didn’t understand why he was crying, I only cried with him because I didn’t like to see my dad cry, only when I grew up did I understand why he reacted that way to my question. He changed the topic to try and make me smile.. wish I could talk to him but he’s not here anymore . Also, miigwetch, thank you for making this video. I hope it helps educate more about this dark part of Canadian history.
Anin sikwa, kin tas? I recognize your language, I am also Ojibwe, specifically from the Assiniboine region. I'm sorry for the loss of your father. I live with my grandmother and she has the same reaction to things that remind her of her time in residential school. Kisawenimin, from one Native to another.
He is with you always. You hold him in your heart and mind. That was the right thing to do with your dad by just holding him and crying with him. I'm part Lakota & my great grandma lost her family 💔 they took her a couple states away and she was adopted.
Many Blessings to you and all of the survivors. My heart breaks to hear everything that those awful school's put them and anyone who was forced to go.
✌️&❤️ To all
I’m in tears right now for the recognition Bailey is giving Indigenous people issues and genocide on her platform
This really just breaks my heart that this happened not too long ago. Bailey, you’re a complete gem for bringing this to our generations eyes because everything such as this is so well hidden. You should do a segment on the Dark History of Disneyland. There has to be something dark there.
Don’t feel bad for not knowing Bailey! As a Canadian we did NOT learn this in school. We were given books that skated over how cruelly the indigenous people were treated by the colonizers and they COMPLETELY skipped over the residential schools. Most people here had no idea until these poor children’s bodies began to be discovered. And 100% the governments only apologized because they got caught. It took the Vatican years after the discovery of these bodies to even acknowledge the part they played in these schools. Thank you for doing this video and being part of the conversation
What is even makes this even worse is the fact that although residential schools closed in the late 90's (in Canada), there are more Indigenous children in foster care today than the number of those attending the schools. These systems are disproportionately furthering the oppression and eradication of Indigenous peoples/culture.
Yes thank you for saying this
I was going to say this exact thing! This is an ongoing issue, they just replaced the “schools” with foster care. It’s heartbreaking and enraging.
I’m Canadian born and am a grand daughter of two residential school survivors! I’ve only learned about Canada’s dark history so it’s cool that you’re shedding light on this very touchy subject.
All indigenous people are thanking you beyond words💕
We are typically stereo typed, and hated but people fail to understand our history.
How to learn to expose this dark behavior? calling it educational and caring for our beautiful children. One suggestion dont shut your babies down. let them express their uniqueness. bye for now
Thank you Bailey for sharing this. I'm a third generation survivor from Pikwakanagan First Nation. Both my grandparents were in residential schools. My aunts were sent to an Indian day school. When I first heard about Kamploops.. I cried and it hurt to begin to learn what really happened. Now I understand why my grandparents (RIP) would never talk about it. Every Child Matters 🧡
I was today years old when I learned what "day school" meant. (35) On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, I attended Loneman Day school and was always confused about why it included the word "day". I always knew about residential schools because our great grandmother went to one but I didn't know about "day school".
Im oglala an Cheyenne River Sioux ✊🏽✊🏽
I’m a granddaughter of a residential school survivor. Our traditional land is on Kaska Territory, aka Yukon in northern Canada. My grandmother and her siblings were forced to attend, and were separated, hundreds of thousands of miles away from each other. Her twin sisters Mary and Annie were sent to a school in Alberta, where Mary ended up passing away from an unknown death at 10 years old, buried in an unmarked grave. My great grandmother received a letter MONTHS after her daughter’s passing. My grandmother always wondered what happened to her sister and throughout her whole entire life. My heart hurts for our Indigenous Peoples. Thank you Bailey for making an episode of these atrocities.
I am so sorry your family was one of the lost voices. Was she found?
This is just horrific, my heart hurts for your family, you didn’t deserve this.
@@sangaristicx9046 she was never found, as of now they’re doing ground truth-ing but since she’s in a unmarked grave we can never actually locate her remains to bring her home. Gruard Residential School. It’s so saddening, my mom was so persistent and sending letters to Truth and Reconciliation, after years of trying to get ahold of anyone that could help, we just finally received a phone call a week after my grandmother passed. My grandma left us never knowing what happened. There’s so much intergenerational trauma and it hurts so bad.
I recommend watching
“Indian horse”
“We we’re children”
Movies about the residential schools, you’ll get more information about us indigenous peoples.
Thank you, Makayla, for further direction.
Thank you for this. I have been trying to learn as much of the TRUTH as I can. With US Thanksgiving coming up I want to know the truth so I can share with my children
@SkyCop Wife care to explain?
@SkyCop Wife what parts are not truth and what makes it hypocrisy?
@@jonnamarie3841 we were children is so hard to watch but very accurately portrayed what these “schools” were like, I’ve heard the horrifying stories first hand from my family who have survived.
There’s still Indian boarding schools today in the US and luckily the BIA is in charge. Four largest Indian boarding schools: Chemawa OR, Riverside OK, Flandreau SD, and Sherman CA. I appreciate Bailey bringing this history to light. It feels like every chapter involving indigenous people in history books are but a few pages.
My great grandparents were Cherokee and they were very mean people; well my great grandfather was. I wonder if this is why, they never discussed what they went through growing up. My great grandma was an ANGEL on this Earth! How she dealt with my grandpa blows my mind.
She mentioned being in a “special school” and you could see the pain in her eyes, and quickly changed the subject. I see now this is what she meant. Thank you Bailey for covering this!! My heart breaks for those who had to endure the torture. Also to know my sweet great-grandmother was in that environment hurts my chest!
TY TY TY for doing this, my mom was a residential school survivor. She attended Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia. There are too date 7310 bodies recovered, so many more schools to dig up! TY from the Mi'kmaq people! Can you do "Sixties Scoop" and " Federal Day School"???? I was apart of both.
Im in Truro NS :) Hello Neighbor :)
I'm from New Brunswick, so naturally I feel compelled to say Hi! 😊👋
❤️ Hello from Manitoba. Your mother should have never had to experience that. I'm so sorry.
Hello from the Cape! ❤️ A Mi'kmaq sister here ❤️
New Glasgow here!