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00:06 - His Excellency would like to ask if any of the residential school survivors would like to take this opportunity to be heard by His Holiness.
00:14 - My mother would like to speak in her language.
00:16 - Aileen Spears. Nisikason, Nya'oste, Cree Nation.
00:21 - My name is Aileen Spears. I am from the Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada.
00:26 - Things are too good. I'm just scared that things will be taken away.
00:30 - I want my children home where they should be.
00:33 - It's the law, Matthew. You go to jail if you don't sign.
00:37 [screaming]
00:39 - Think of the education they will receive.
00:41 [screaming]
00:43 [screaming]
00:45 [screaming]
00:47 [screaming]
00:49 - If it wasn't for the church, a residential school system would never exist.
00:54 - We have 324 students that will keep them in a state of malnutrition.
00:58 - If you want to motivate the Indian, you must starve him.
01:01 [knocking]
01:02 - Naturally, we're seeing a rise in sickness.
01:04 - Be careful. You're going to see things you'll never forget.
01:07 You've got to keep it inside you.
01:09 [screaming]
01:11 - You didn't think your master escape would go unpunished.
01:14 - I need your protection.
01:15 - You're an Indian. I don't owe you anything.
01:18 [screaming]
01:20 - You promised me that you won't look back. You are our tomorrow.
01:24 - We're sending you to London. Putting together a special operation.
01:27 - The Germans haven't been able to crack our code in Cree.
01:30 - How did you keep your language?
01:32 - We've been training all our lives.
01:34 - There is no way that we are going to give up
01:37 when we are threatened with cultural genocide.
01:40 - Mom?
01:41 [choir singing]
01:47 - Didn't you love what you taught them
01:50 was an education in unrelenting cruelty?
01:54 [choir singing]
02:06 [chants d'animaux]
02:10 [silence]
02:14 [silence]
02:18 [silence]
02:21 [silence]
02:24 [silence]
02:27 [SILENCE]