Canada's Shame: Residential schools, unmarked graves, and the search for justice | People & Power
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- On October 27, 2022, Canada’s parliament unanimously recognised the country’s residential school system as genocide. More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes between the 1880s and late 1990s, and placed in distant schools where they were stripped of their identity.
Officially, more than 4,100 children died at the schools, but it’s believed many more lost their lives while in the government-funded system. At least 1,300 potential unmarked graves have been identified using ground-penetrating radar at just four of the 139 residential schools nationwide.
Now, new revelations are emerging as investigators search the lands surrounding former residential schools across the country. People and Power joins teams as they try to seek justice for the thousands of children who went missing and looks at the long-term consequences of the system.
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Al Jazeera's irreversible lie "Canada's Shame: Residential schools, unmarked graves, and the search for justice"
Exactly how many human remains have been found in the "mass graves"?
They have found over 10000 bodies of children across Canada so far.
How is it possible that so many media outlets around the world continually report and re report this " genocidal tragedy " with no evidence ?
ZERO BODIES and this is October 2023.
The whole thing was essentially a cash grab, as MILLIONS were earmarked as compensation. No one is saying that nothing bad ever happened to anyone in residential schools.
In ANY type of boarding school bad things can happen due to the intrusive nature of living in a school 24/7 without the normal balance of a regular home life with parents and siblings. However the narrative that is being sold to the world is faulty.
For one thing, in situations where children were living in romote locations, residential schools were often the ONLY option for schooling. Unless the children were to remain living in the native communities indefinitely some form of schooling was ESSENTIAL.
Also, it is absolutely true that native children ( and adults) often died of diseases that affected them more severely then their non native counterparts.
The problem arose when claims of massive amounts of dead children being secretly buried was made without any actual evidence. Stories passed down from one generation to another are not evidence of anything, but are at best hearsay and at worst myths.
Because of the current politically correct climate in Canada and a rush to label the situation " genocide", without properly researching it people were and are afraid to dispute it for fear of being labeled " deniers".
The fact is that NO BODIES have ever been found in any of the sites in question. NOT A SINGLE BODY AS OF NOVEMBER 21ST 2023.
I absolutely believe that some situations such as the current one in Gaza (13,000 dead and counting) are GENOCIDE. The situation in Canada however is not genocide, but simply an exaggeration of events with the goal of compensation and a permanent excuse for any and all wrong doing by native peoples.
For the benefit of those outside of Canada , Canada's native people enjoy incredible and in many cases undeserved preferential treatment. They pay no taxes, get premium health care and other benefits and have the privilege of a special justice system. They are in no way forced to stay in a specific area ( unlike the peopleofGaza), and are taken care of by the government far better then the average Canadian.
Those brave few who have spoken up to say that their residential school experience was not negative are silenced by their leaders, as compensation is the goal.
For the most part I love Al Jazeera, and don't really blame them for getting this issue wrong, as I am sure most Canadian journalists are not experts on life in Quatar, and could easily get things wrong about the history and culture of the middle east.
But the fact is that the Residential School issue has been greatly misunderstood and used for financial gain.
Google it and you will see what I mean.
@@janetwebster5099 Thank you Janet
If there are hundreds of potential unmarked graves, there should be hundreds of potential bodies. Where are the bodies? Where is the investigative report on finding all those potential human remains?
As of September 2023, NO HUMAN REMAINS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN FOUND.
More than two years after the story came out and 68 churches were vandalized or even burned to the ground.
THANKS A LOT.
Just more proof of the anti-West propaganda that is believed by brainwashed simpletons
Lol
Which news do you recite?
@rizkySUB the only news sources that will touch this story now are ones that are openly biased in favor of the right. Look up "no human remains found in canada" and you'll get a bunch of results.
@XP-nt9ly WELL SAID!! It’s unreal how people don’t know this already. It’s nice to see a comment from someone else who knows what’s going on here. I’m so sick & tired of the repetitive narrative the media spews out that people ignorantly believe.
Cheers👍
As is so often the case, history is judged and criticized from the comfort of plush offices by academics and politicians who not only have no empathy for the conditions of the past, but who are too over-fed, under-conditioned and spineless to have survived even a month in the era they are so eager to condemn. Who on earth are we today to criticize these early Canadians while we currently tolerate, if not support, gender dysphoria, puberty blockers on minors, transgender women in young girls' washrooms, open drug use in our cities, and allowing our schools to tear children from their parents' trust? Add to this the amount of mis-information, dis-information and blatant lies perpetrated on the indigenous schooling / unmarked graves issue - we today are every bit as, and more, evil and inhumane than those predessessors we so sanctimoneously judge. "First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." And shame on Al Jazeera for gullible, irresponsible and untruthful reporting.
Not one body found.
Because they burned them they didn’t bury them
@@alexchavez3244Moving goalposts much? Explain to me how a residental school managed to burn human bones and bury them. It's impossible. First if all, they didn't have the furnaces that can burn bones and second of all if they miraclously did they'd have to carry them a long way since they didn't find a single unmarked grave anywhere close to a single school...
@@rocketman4123 you’d be surprised they did 🥸
Obviously whoever produced this video at Al Jazeera isn’t bothered about hypocrisy
Didn't know that Qataris invaded someone else's land and devastated their indigenous people?
@@AdamFirst-hp4by - my point clearly went over your head poppet 😁
@@gnasher688 ok little genius, you need to insure the 2 working brain cells before they burn out as you are typing. Eejit
@@AdamFirst-hp4by - there’s no need to be nasty or name call sweetie .. it’s not my fault you didn’t understand my point
@@gnasher688 not your sweetie, are you emotionally deprived?
Make your point without calling people 'poppets' if you're such a sensitive little thing.
in every photo i seen in this video, All children are smiling. Doesn't make sense
@TyrannosaurusRex-mi2vcthere were no bodies found lmao
They had to smile or they got hit on the head.
I can read faces and not everybody smiling some of the kids are looking down looking away from the camera some of the kids are you just look at their faces don't just look at how many smiling look at all the faces I went down the road and I've studied a lot of photos about this stuff and I've looked at everybody's face and I'm telling you everybody ain't smiling
Have they taken up any skellets or bones? Have any been identified by DNA in ancestry or similary?
I believe you should ask the data to the school itself because the body found in the school they may have record it and we could trace it to the nearest sibling of them in canada. "If" The record is still intact or keep
Yes
@@myliege6223 So can you give me a link? Where is this information?
@GameReality just look it up on Google or Wikipedia. Are you new to canada or just interested in canada.
@@myliege6223 if you have any links please paste them here
Debunked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂😂😂
Wow, hard to believe that the whole thing was a hoax!
ALL schools were built AT THE REQUEST OF THE INDIANS. The Government DID NOT OPERATE THE SCHOOLS, religious group did. At that time ALL INDIANS GOT FREE MEDICINE (not like my non natives relatives, farming in the same province.) Over half of these children died before the adult age. The RCMP WILL have records as, in Canada, only a RCMP (police) member can declare an Indian dead. When you do a story try taking to both sides and not take only the word of one group.
The Indians requested a school to be equals with the white man counterparts and instead recieved cultural genecide commited against their children affecting them for generations to come
"Potential Graves" reported but it's October 2023 and still no bodies found in those apparant graves.
It's all a HOAX to get undeserved money out of Tax Payers. And they have already got BILLIONS.
over 6000...
@@keetahbrough "over 6000" ... what? Potential Graves or Actual Graves?
@@keetahbrough Over 6000 ghost Graves it seems.
Because the bodies decomposed. The bones took longer but decomposed. Those bodies were in the ground a few years and more. They didn't bury them in coffins, just threw them in the ground.
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Is there any DNA found from the dead children?
Is anyone have a database or statistics of found bodies or DNA ?
What families or tribes do they belong to?
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No bodies have ever been found of children or adults native or non Native.
The entire thing grew out of stories told and passed down.
It's essentially a cash grab and an excuse to get sympathy by population that is ALREADY supported disproportionately by taxes ( which they do not have to pay) . See above comment.
In order to get DNA. You would need a body. They haven't found any bodies.
Radar found 215 anomalies in the ground. After digging no bodies were found. Embarassing 😐
Which news do you see? I interested
@@rizkySUB search "no human remains found in Canada"
Daily Mail 23 August 2023
Reformed Perspective. ca , September 25th, 2023
National Post May 26th. 2022
And where is my money from all the trauma/violence/death threats? I deserve compensation. I don't see anything in my bank accounts.
How about Al Jazeera doing a history video on the enslavement of innocent people during the Persian Empire 🤔
Its interesting. But its common in middle east and africa still have slavery but Islam came and demolish slavery :)
@@rizkySUB Islam came and subjugated an entire culture, the Bedos had an incredible deverse culture until the sickos under Mohamid murdered all who would not convert.
@@rizkySUB Homie, you can still find people in north Africa who had parents who bought slaves
No bodies found. Many say they enjoyed their time there and its the first time they ate well.
Absolutely. Also, often they were left alone while their parents went off to hunt etc, and these schools were life saveing
And many say they were sexually abused, beaten, yelled at, malnourished and killed.
A lot was unsaid, all of this was geared for one narrative, a lot was left out.
There’s a reason Habeas Corpus is Latin for “show the body (that you have)”
The term/concept of “genocide” didn’t exist before 1950s, not to say they didn’t occur, but you can’t retroactivly litigate conduct/acceptable behavior.
Not one body found
Is qatar doing enough to address it's only past slavery?
Whataboutism cannot divert the original sin 😅
Slavery its not only happen in qatar I believe but in whole world. I believe there are so called serfdom in europe as well so why only point out bout it in qatar? I would like to discuss about serfdom in europe with you. Do you want to discuss it?
D1 yapper
Thank you.
How would I go about becoming a volunteer to help?
I first learned of this system from an episode of the Anne of Green Gables series "Anne with an E". In one episode, a young girl was forcibly taken from her native family and imprisoned in one of those schools. When she escaped and returned home, men armed with rifles hunted her down and brought her back. As the story went, Anne and Merila were confronted with armed guards when they tried to retrieve her.
I was shocked to learn that these incidents really happened, and in large numbers. I was even more horrified to learn that it took place in the U.S. also.
I was Shocked when after leaning about this and checking back years later that not a single Photograph of any of the remains much less and remains excavated appeared.
This is starting to turn into a Case of false accusations and a giant money grab scheme. All the while Canadian Society 8s flagellated of it.
Yes it’s good you got your history lesson from a TV show called Anne of Green Gables. I used to watch The Green Hornet, Kung Fu and assorted shows to learn martial arts. I’m an expert after watching those fight scenes.
@@samspade1841 I don't know if you're being sarcastic and pardon me if I take you the wrong way, but I didn't actually "learn a history lesson from a TV show". I went to numerous web sites and watched several CZcams videos, including this one, that describe this chapter of history. I always fact-check my sources. So, no, I didn't "learn it from Anne of Green Gables".
Let us pray for the lives of all those children who are gone and that the Great Spirit will keep them in his care and they will be born again 😢🖐️ estoy muy triste
Why haven't the Canadian government shown or procuded credible evidence of the mass graves yet? It's been 3 years.
First I thought they are just lying about Indian culture but after reading comments, I think they lie about lot of countries too😂 Pure AJ strategy
I don't understand which part is lie? Since it had been cover up in many news and been aknoledge by the goverment itself?
The government lied to everyone about everything! Genocide has occurred worldwide thanks to the monarchy
i need a needle acne surgery in three months and circumcision in two months.
Dont let simple things like facts get in the way of your reporting AJ 😂
60's scope, The Indian hospitals segregation from main stream society, and child welfare systems, each Indigenous person was numbered that was placed on them, and other historic events that took place in Canada with the Indigenous peoples. Google these topics.
Sounds like commonwealth policy to me.
Do the best, to restore educational services of Canada..
😢I can't speak a memory of all those children 🌺
The work is slow and painstaking and heavily funded by taxpayers to dwell on the past
none of it is true, how can you report on something when there is no facts.
ECM 🧡
There should tell the truth it makes me angry what there did to this kids
there are many graves filled with people who received hudson bay blankets
IRS were a treaty promise only 30% went to IRS. They were voluntary not every kid was eligible to go. In the late 50s chiefs asked for more to be built gov said no actually the gov wanted to shut them all down starting in the late 40s but couldn’t why because the overwhelming need of homeless aboriginal kids without IRS they would have had nothing. I am tired and angry of the constant propaganda aimed at Canadians where is our t shirt side walk and special day for the white kids who got hurt by the Catholic Church? We don’t count
just to remind any Canadian teachers, not to mention a signle word from this video, or you get reported and straight fired.
Hopefully that attitude will be CORRECTED in the near future. FREE SPEACH must prevail!
@@Finness894 oh you are funny
Actually that is incorrect. If teachers do NOT parrot what is said in this video they will be fired.
The Catholic Church will always try to slow thing down
yet it gave you the civilisation you are now enjoying
Not as much as Al Jazeera will try and hide the fact that precisely zero human remains have been discovered in any of the "mass graves".
What kind of civilisation? I mean there are many civilitation in the world and world not only rotate of it. Not all countries hold it as their civilitation :) we grow as our religion and tradition not only from it
It was Vatican in 1947-1954 behind 37 000 UkrainianNaziSS coming to Canada 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸.
46 percent of the schools were run by the Catholic Church. The other 64 percent were run by other denominations. Why then is the Catholic Church the only one singled out and demonized by all this unproven media hate mongering?
Hidden ugly Truths.
like those in all so called muslim countries where abuse happens every second.
@@aaronvictor7645 Falsehood.
You mean like the fact that exactly zero human remains have been found in any of the "mass graves"? Because that's a truth that's being hidden.
@@aaronvictor7645 Hai Victor
@@aaronvictor7645 abuse not only happen in muslim countries but also in other non muslim countries to. Like in India vs their muslim, vietnam, kamboja, japan, and etc. I like to watch criminal case in youtube and trust me the hidious crime case always came from non muslim countries. In Indonesia we are rarely afraid of serial killer but it seem common thing in non muslim countries
The lies are unbelievable! Years ago I met knew several guys who attended residential schools. Every one of them told me they had a good time and mostly played basketball when they were at the school. Now they talk about the painful memories and keep looking for more government money. Truly disgraceful what has happened with the truth. The gaslighting of the public is an epic travesty.
Where ever the Eureopeans go they always seem to leave a trail of death and destruction, why?😢
Do you know anything about history beyond the last 300 years ?? .. or does your brainwashed mind think it is only Europeans that have caused problems in the World .. try looking up ancient Egyptians 2000BC or the ancient Persians or the Mamluk turks or the ottomans .. ALL of which enslaved innocent people .. open your brain & research the truth
Where?
Also, native tribes were much brutal. Some even killed kids of enemy tribes and used them as human sacrifice.
That's definitely much worse than European colonialism which was mostly way organised and were actually somewhat accountable to whatever they do.
To even add. They even tried to protect the Natives from the Pioneers but because of Distance it was next to impossible to imenforce anything.@@holyromanemperor420
@@holyromanemperor420 Native tribes didn't do human sacrifice
@@roberttwin888 Aztecs did.. and so did many other native tribes in the americas. they enslaved each other, genocided each other.
1:44 kek Al Jizzeera always cracking a good one
Great documentary 👍.I always look forward to know more about the indigenous people from all around the world.
Learn about the Palestinians and how their also being ethnically cleansed for generations
Learn about Sudan and how a whole generation is being wiped out so bigger countries would steal the resources
@@Katrinapolovaski The Palestinians lived mostly in Jordan until most were kicked out for trying to overthrow the King, too bad not one of the sand countries wants these conniving unfaithful people. Most of the people living in what is now Israel in the 1940s were of Jewish descent and the so-called Palestinians did not even live there.
Then you mean every human, because all humans are indigenous.
@@Katrinapolovaski
Oh, like being the richest social group in Israel? Also, being one of the richest Arabs in the world?
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Religion Sucks.
What do you think the suck part of religion ?
@rizkySUB the hundreds of millions of people that have died or have been killed in the name of religion. There is a start.
@@rizkySUB Any part that causes you to shove your fantasy beliefs down free-thinking people's throats, religion is the safe place for those who fear to be free.
Scam
keep up reporting false news al jazeera
FRO
The great search uncovered nothing and no genocide.
If this hits 5 years and nothing. This was all Blood Libel. Catholics in Canada should stand up for themselves and demand Compensation for all the damages done to the Churches.
00:03 Impact of residential schools on indigenous communities
06:03 Impact of residential schools on Indigenous Canadians
08:30 Searching for justice through uncovering missing markers and buried truths
11:06 Survivors share experiences of sexual and physical abuse in Residential Schools
13:55 Inter-generational trauma and struggles with addiction among indigenous communities
16:32 Limited progress on implementing calls to action
18:39 Impact of residential schools on indigenous communities
20:38 Residential schools were sites of neglect, abuse, and child labor.
22:36 Implementation of the Nations Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples and its impact
24:43 Children in residential schools faced life-threatening conditions
my grandfather was from a residential school, when he joined the navy he heard stories from kids from orphanages, they described worse conditions and treatment then he saw or heard of in residential school, apparently alot of kids from orphanages and residential schools got smallpox, measles, influenza and TB when new kids were brought in from infected communities
Shameful Hoax.
As a signatory of the Geneva Declaration of the rights of the Child, the Canadian government needs to stand trial at the ICC for crimes committed against First Nations children.
Or not as the entire story has been a lie
In order for that you would need evidence like say a mass grave with dead bodies in them... still haven't found one body on any residential school site.
HOAX
USA still does this Today to Native Familys 🏴☠️
Religion reverses everything!
What do you mean? I like to discuss bout it. Cause I had see this news now and then and I would like some point of view from this
The U.S. is just as guilty, the last residential school closed in the u.s. in 1997!
Guilty of nothing but educating savages.
Canada 😔🤮🤢🤑
I used to be proud of being a Canadian today I am disgusted and ashamed
You have nothing to be ashamed and Disgusted. Even after 2 years no bodies have been found.
Identity vs modernity.
Canada and the US should become a Federation like Russia and give the natives the right to rule their part of the country
It’s called reservations lol.
Where in Russia are they giving its Native population their own land and rule??
@@MrNotoriousROBTechnically speaking, the autonomous republics in Russia have their own laws and only follow certain orders from the Kremlin about important issues, such as war.
@@phank.s.4052 what other "important issues" which in turn doesn't affect their autonomy?
Russia is an asymmetrical federation in that republics have their own constitutions, official languages, and national anthems, but other subjects do not.
The republics also originally had more powers devolved to them, though actual power varied between republics, depending largely upon their economic importance.
Through the signing of bilateral treaties with the federal government, republics gained extensive authority over their economies, internal policies, and even foreign relations in the 1990s.
However, after the turn of the century, Vladimir Putin's centralization reforms steadily eradicated the autonomy of the republics with the exception of Chechnya. The bilateral agreements were abolished and in practice all power now rests with the federal government. Since the termination of the final bilateral treaty in 2017, some commentators consider Russia to no longer be a federation.
@MrNotoriousROB that's why I said "technically." Even under Yeltsin, there was no true autonomy. Chechnya tried to break away, and immediately, there were Russian war planes flying towards it, and a total blockade put in place.
When you're learning about Canadian residential schools, you are not learning about anything Indigenous; you're learning about Christianity.
Wrong again. Not a Single Body found as of April 23, 2024.
We are still in the finding bodies stage after 2 years.
@@arnowisp6244 A body in the ground will decompose after 10 days, bones take longer, but they decompose. They didn;t bury them in coffins. Thats why there are no bodies.
@@roberttwin888 bones take how much longer?
Tuned n from Aotearoa New Zealand!👍😝✌️ History should be taught & learned!! 🌄💯
Right? Like the history that precisely zero human remains have been found in any of the mass graves seems like a pretty important historical fact, right?
No graves have been excavated, no human remains have been found . I agree history should be taught and learned but please stick to facts
@@matthewdudael1931 hopefully ain't found if it makes things easier?! 💯 history should be taught fully!! 👍😝✌️ history though??!! 🫣🫣 who stole the generations???!!! 🔥
@@koromahatrepia4922 "hopefully ain't found if it makes things easier ? ! " What do you mean by this statement ? It has been three years now since the assertion that thousands of children have been buried in and around the residential schools and yet no human remains have been exhumed . Please cite your sources that say human remains have been exhumed and I will happily stand corrected . If not we will at least agree on one thing and that is neither one of us knows what you are talking about
@@matthewdudael1931 r u missing from these places?... r your family & friends stolen from their lands!? 💯 do u care??!! If these words r true were r u involved. 🫣🫣🫣
If they wanted to educate these children they shouldnt give them to catholic clergy as these guys are trained for mass murder and no child should be exposed to these murderers
What to do now. If there are still criminals alive they should be brought to international justice and sentence to life in prison
Crime is especially harder if committed towards children forget about soldier doing it to soldier or hurting an adult. But crime against child is highest crime and should be punished with maximum prison time
European global conquest…Smh.
Yeah we brought the very freedom of expression you use to slight us and you ingrates don't even thank use for this freedom.
Exactly the same social engineering, by exactly the same organization, caused Jewish children in Venice to be taken forcibly from their families by the Catholic Church and raised by its clergy. One well-known example is the man born Emanuele Coniglione, known to us by the name of the priest who brought him up, Lorenzo DaPonte. DaPonte wrote the Italian words to Mozart’s operas; the Church has been employing these techniques for a very long time. The Canadian government obviously knew where to look for the requisite expertise and funded such “work” by the Catholic Church with tax dollars. The Toronto public school system during the 1950s and 1960s engaged in much the same business, except that the priority was to raise Protestants; children weren’t removed from families. Between kindergarten and eighth grade Toronto’s elementary school teachers were pretty solidly evangelical Christians, so any actual educational materials were relegated to only half the mornings. Daily “opening exercises,” including: singing God Save the Queen, then Oh, Canada, then, optionally, The Maple Leaf Forever, then the Lord’s Prayer, then Bible readings, then more hymns designed as riddle songs to further reinforce Bible teaching, accounted for the time before recess. That’s five mornings every school week between the ages of five and thirteen; you do the math. After eighth grade, the Canadian military took over through high school.
The overwhelming vast majority of kids went willingly. Their parents were more then happy to send them off to the schools. One less mouth to feed, one more bottle of booze for the week.
I believe the intention was good...
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Bring education, health, shelter, the word of the Prophets...
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But, with them, they took smallpox, influenza, leprosy, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, measles, etc...
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Moreover, how many pandemics (besides the Spanish flu) have these schools gone through???
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All these, no denying the fact..
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But, I believe the story is more complex...
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Yeah, and it turns all the mass grave claims were just a bunch of nothing.
People need to cool down and control their emotions and think logically before going on to spread hatred against certain institutions and burning down Churches that were built by locals who had nothing to do with this.
No it wasn't for the good intentions. It was to take the Indian out of the children and place them in main stream society, But they used abusive behaviors. How would you feel if you were told that your language was of the devil, your songs, your dances, and your color of the skin. The bible was twisted to fit the churches. GOD was a very angry God and didn't like the devils children. The few stories I've heard over the years. Soap was forced to eat if one was caught speaking their language.
murderer west
As in the East & all around the globe
@@gnasher688 yup