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00:00The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history.
00:08Two primary objectives of the residential school system were to remove and isolate children
00:15and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.
00:23All she said to me was to be good and to listen, and she never said any more.
00:31I don't think they could even fathom what would happen.
00:40They built these schools away from the reserve and run by the churches.
00:50No one was allowed to touch each other or to talk to each other.
00:53Ninety-nine, that's you.
00:57You will learn to speak God's language.
01:00I could hear the steps coming towards the girls' infirmary and I was the only one in
01:08there.
01:09And then I couldn't breathe.
01:14I don't know what kind of God they have.
01:20When I hear people that firmly believe that nothing happened in these schools, I can tell
01:27my story.