00:00We were fast in those days.
00:15The faster we ran, the longer we stayed out of that prison.
00:23Did you say give you my medal?
00:26Our words go in the front foyer. How else would people know what a job we have done with boys just out of the bush?
00:33When you win at sport, it shows what a civilizing effect the school has had on you.
00:38Residential school? What were they doing sticking us in there?
00:41I hate this place.
00:43Telling our parents and our grandparents they couldn't raise us. Telling us that our language was forbidden.
00:50We gotta be real careful about talking Anishinaabe in here.
00:55You get in big trouble if the principal finds out.
00:59If you see any of our boys looking at girls in a dirty way, I want you to report it to me immediately.
01:10Do you understand?
01:12Yes, sir.
01:16The principal spent a lot of time talking to me about girls.
01:20How bad and filthy they were.
01:25Bring her here.
01:28Now.
01:34Thomas?
01:36Yeah?
01:37What did the principal want?
01:43What did he want?
01:54They thought they were making us into good little white boys.
02:00Soldiers who could run.
02:02Thomas?
02:03What happened?
02:04Thomas?
02:05What happened?
02:06Thomas?
02:07What happened?
02:08Time's supposed to heal.
02:11Isn't that what they say?
02:12Time's supposed to heal.
02:26Isn't that what they say?
02:28Isn't that what they say?
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