Bones of Crows is a psychological drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears, as she survives Canada's r | dHNfb3lFUDVzUm9xX3c
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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]
00:02 - His Excellency would like to ask
00:04 if any of the residential school survivors
00:07 would like to take this opportunity
00:09 to be heard by His Holiness.
00:10 - My mother would like to speak in her language.
00:12 - Aileen Spears.
00:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:16 - Cree Nation.
00:17 - My name is Aileen Spears.
00:19 I am from the Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada.
00:22 - Things are too good.
00:23 I'm just scared that things will be taken away.
00:26 - I want my children home where they should be.
00:29 - It's the law, Matthew.
00:31 You'd go to jail if you don't sign.
00:34 - Think of the education they've already seen.
00:37 [SCREAMING]
00:40 - If it wasn't for the church, the residential school system
00:49 would never exist.
00:50 - We have 324 students that will keep them
00:53 in a state of malnutrition.
00:54 - And if you want to motivate the Indian,
00:56 you must starve him.
00:58 - Naturally, we're seeing a rise in sickness.
01:00 - Be careful.
01:01 You're going to see things you never forget.
01:04 You've got to keep it inside you.
01:07 - You didn't think your master escape would go unpunished.
01:10 I need your protection.
01:11 You're an Indian.
01:13 I don't owe you anything.
01:14 [SCREAMING]
01:16 - You promised me that you won't look back.
01:19 You are our tomorrow.
01:20 - We're sending you to London, putting together
01:22 a special operation.
01:24 - The Germans haven't been able to crack our code in Cree.
01:27 - How did you keep your language?
01:29 - We've been training all our lives.
01:30 - There is no way that we are going
01:33 to give up when we are threatened
01:35 with cultural genocide.
01:37 - Mom?
01:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:41 - The thing you love, what you taught them,
01:46 was an education in unrelenting cruelty.
01:49 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:53 - You are my eye.
01:57 You are my bones.
02:01 [GROWLING]
02:05 [BLANK_AUDIO]