The Forgotten People: Métis Residential School Survivors

The Forgotten People
The history of the Métis people and their attendance at Indian Residential Schools is a historical experience that has profoundly influenced our community. The impact has affected the families of these individuals for generations.
This dark chapter in our history is one that we feel needs to be recorded to help our people heal and address the intergenerational impact of this distressing legacy upon our families and communities.
The Forgotten people video consists of 9 participants who share their personal experiences as residential school survivors and intergenerational survivors.
Through their strength and courage, we hope as a society, we all learn from history and walk forward with understanding, compassion, and change.

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  • @carriebauman1503
    @carriebauman15032 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather is Glen E Cardinal from Kikino Metis Settlement & he attended the residential school in St. Albert, AB currently known as Poundmakers Lodge I wish I learned more about his experience there but from what I was told was that he got TB and they basically left him in a room to die, after about 10 days of being in a comatose state he came out of it. He left that school with one lung. I'm sure he endured more but we will never know jkhis story as he passed away. RIP Grampy ❤️ best man I ever knew.

  • @sadboyasd
    @sadboyasd2 ай бұрын

    as an metis man this makes me cry for my indigenous bothers and sisters, la pae miina lamoor. 😪

  • @ardshielcomplex8917

    @ardshielcomplex8917

    2 ай бұрын

    Here I am as an Australian with tears in my eyes, the shame of a nation and to be honest the govt was doing the same to our Aboriginal and half breed children in Australia.

  • @rudyrissone4298
    @rudyrissone42989 ай бұрын

    It is good that people are still alive to tell this. It is still happening .

  • @fungi42021

    @fungi42021

    8 ай бұрын

    never stopped

  • @melissabrackin3790
    @melissabrackin37906 ай бұрын

    Chickasaw in Oklahoma. Thank you for sharing. All our stories need to be heard for healing.

  • @denisethorbjornsen7493
    @denisethorbjornsen749311 ай бұрын

    I'm so sorry that you had to go through this as children I pray your lives are better now

  • @deitrestolbert4442
    @deitrestolbert4442 Жыл бұрын

    That wasn't God that treat you like that...man made religion.... slavery was the same in US..separated families apart...and know today drugs are doing the same thing...but we must be strong and try to out think the oppressor......🙏

  • @wackywally69420
    @wackywally69420 Жыл бұрын

    of my great grandfather's 5 siblings, only 1 brother survived their time in Métis residential school in St. Albert as far as i know. The rest of his siblings died of tuberculosis a few years or months after attending. My great grandfather never talked to anyone about his experience, but he was broken when he lost his siblings. I know this from stories and never got to meet him to ask him anything directly. "Its hard to love anybody" hits home for me, even though i didnt attend, my great grandfather must have passed on the trauma - my dad never spoke to his father because of his abuse and now im not speaking to him for similar reasons.

  • @TashaSmirnoff
    @TashaSmirnoff Жыл бұрын

    My Metis Kokom was allowed to attend residential school, until the government burnt down their home and shipped the family in cattle cars to Green Lake SK in the 1930s

  • @karinelsinga4357
    @karinelsinga4357 Жыл бұрын

    ❤️💓❤️ Much love to you all

  • @carolfromalbertacanada
    @carolfromalbertacanada2 жыл бұрын

    😪😪😪😪😪😪😪🙏🏽

  • @HenCham-fx7do
    @HenCham-fx7doАй бұрын

    An old sage once told me about a wierd story thati didnt understand,yet,do you guys heard about John traverse the rivers?

  • @jacquelinekezema2907
    @jacquelinekezema29072 жыл бұрын

    Please not just indigenous language but every language in the world deserves to be heard no matter where you live country region whatever

  • @lisadawn9457

    @lisadawn9457

    2 жыл бұрын

    nohtawiy kisakihitin mistahi kakike

  • @jn1211

    @jn1211

    10 ай бұрын

    tell us how the english speakers are keeping english from being heard. then please tell me how that matters when the english speakers made sure through literal fucking genocide that I'd never get to speak my own peoples language. [disabled in legislated poverty with literally no hope of things getting better means no extras, only survival]

  • @jn1211

    @jn1211

    10 ай бұрын

    when you "what about" an issue that has literally never been addressed from a systematic level, you're actively engaging in the behaviour that got our languges eliminated in the first place.

  • @dwentlandt1022

    @dwentlandt1022

    9 ай бұрын

    Language and culture and family should never be taken from anyone. As a white person, we don’t have history, our history was to steal from others and destroy it in the process. Both in Canada and the United States.

  • @ardshielcomplex8917
    @ardshielcomplex89172 ай бұрын

    Why was it allowed to happen to Children ?