00:02Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
00:06Canada needs to reconcile
00:08the fact that this happened. It was Canada that did it.
00:12We're not looking for an apology. We are appealing
00:15for equality.
00:20I'm writing to you as an 18-year-old kid sound individual
00:23who recently visited my ancestral home in northern British Columbia.
00:28Human beings aren't this miraculous creature
00:31made of some other cosmic material that's totally separate
00:35from this world. This is a very healthy population prior
00:39to colonization. Indian children in the residential
00:43schools die at a much higher rate than in their villages.
00:47The residential schools destroyed the indigenous families.
00:51Knocked on the door, next thing we're on the train. Nothing can stop it.
00:57When you hear babies crying,
00:59then suddenly the crying stops.
01:02We dug graves there.
01:04How in the world was I supposed to get that out of my being?
01:07I didn't intend to write this letter, but I felt I had to do it after what I saw and
01:12heard.
01:15Colonization, it's messy business.
01:18Displacing, dispossessing, unnecessary killing in large numbers.
01:22To me, Canada doesn't even exist.
01:25But this does not justify a change in the policy of this department,
01:29which is geared towards a final solution of our Indian problem.
01:33I mean, it's an outrage.
01:35It's a scandal.
01:36What is there to be afraid of because we have the truth behind us?
01:41Here's the story.
01:42Here's the story.
01:42Now.
01:44To be continued.
01:45Now.
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