We Were Children | movie | 2012 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada's First Nations children were legally required to attend gover | dG1fOWRhQnFBZGRJX3M

Transcript

00:00The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history.

00:08Two primary objectives of the residential school system were to remove and isolate children

00:15and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.

00:23All she said to me was to be good and to listen, and she never said any more.

00:31I don't think they could even fathom what would happen.

00:40They built these schools away from the reserve and run by the churches.

00:50No one was allowed to touch each other or to talk to each other.

00:53Ninety-nine, that's you.

00:57You will learn to speak God's language.

01:00I could hear the steps coming towards the girls' infirmary and I was the only one in

01:08there.

01:09And then I couldn't breathe.

01:14I don't know what kind of God they have.

01:20When I hear people that firmly believe that nothing happened in these schools, I can tell

01:27my story.