00:00Some of them died in fires or fleeing the schools trying to escape the abuse.
00:05Some of them died by drowning or freezing while trying to escape.
00:23My grandparents and their siblings went.
00:25There's a very strong legacy of residential school survivors in my family,
00:30which means I unfortunately have some intergenerational trauma.
00:48I know that that community had told officials that there was a mass grave.
00:54Already there. So the community knew and a lot of other people knew.
00:59And that was also a common practice for children to be kind of disposed of like that.
01:07I definitely feel like there's a big cloud over Canada right now.
01:11It's just everywhere. It's just like you can't really get away from it.
01:15I certainly can't get away from it.
01:17First of all, this is heart-wrenching.
01:23Second, I would just like to take a few seconds of silence to honour every soul.
01:32To watch movies or to watch videos and think of my Mushom, my Cree word for grandfather,
01:59going through that is just, it really breaks my heart.
02:02And imagining like my younger cousins, like what if that was them?
02:06Like that could have been them.
02:08It really is just heartbreaking to work through.
02:12The last school that closed in 1996, I was actually in my community.
02:17And they tore down that school collectively as a group.
02:24And they built a school that I actually went to.
02:27I spent kindergarten on the land that that residential school was on.
02:31It's really kind of surreal for me to think about even now.
02:39I think that some people don't understand why Indigenous people are still hurting
02:44from stuff that happened so long ago.
02:46Well, not even so long ago.
02:48Like yes, it was introduced like in the 1800s, but it went until 1996.
02:59And from just saying that they went to residential school, it's like why?
03:03Like who made them? Like why?
03:05There's so many gaps in that education.
03:08And it's so obvious why other people outside of Canada don't have any details.
03:15Because people in Canada barely do.
03:19I try really hard to incorporate decolonized language,
03:27decolonized content into the programming.
03:30And we talk a lot about a medicine wheel,
03:32which is just like a circle with colours in it
03:37to kind of represent pieces of life and the earth.
03:42And it's a circle because we're all together, side by side.
03:46There's no top or bottom.
03:48And that's really where we try to help children visualize
03:54the earth and their community as side by side
03:57instead of them on top or them on the bottom.
