[Music] and welcome back to facts of frauds make sure you hit that thumbs up button you're subscribed ring the bell for a notification so the next time a premiere video you can meet the live chat with everyone else and leave a comment in the comment section to tell me what you think and today to celebrate indigenous people's day let's look at the moors who claim to be indigenous but they're not i'm amor they just came along and copied off when they got here they had to put that in there because as political bans operating separate from great britain they on our territory land because you've given up your birthright because you don't know it now you understand why obama's shining rights of indigenous people because the only way you can come under international law protection is with a nationality aboriginal man aboriginal woman your current conditions if you're not happy with your current conditions you have two choices one you can do absolutely nothing about it and let it continue or two you can evolve in your thinking and behavior patterns and do something about it i am dmx more empowerment customers for supreme commander on the new lb the primary mandate for the mx my prime through a customs force on my watch is to enforce the maximum empire constitution rubbing unto our independent industry commerce and trade this is how we maintain order within the mx1 empire global common market okay my tribal member i'm a tactile native american no you're not my tribal judge is on the phone i don't care who that is that means nothing to me we're the indigenous people of the land you see my status on my license plate i'm a natural born indigenous person to this land what's that i'm a natural born indigenous person to this land no you're not yes sir which is an indigenous indigenous tribe right so you see that i'm out of your jurisdiction sir so just you know when you're in laurier my jurisdiction yes sir disrespect state statutes yes i definitely understand that okay thank you for upholding your ulta to the conference i took a look at it i never seen it before yeah i'm an american indian okay so it's it's a lot of really i already run into like of course because we a lot of us stay on the reservation but i'm an urban ending listen to me boy we don't all stay on the reservation we work we have driver's licenses we have cars you're full of it and ask for an urban no no we don't even use that word we are first nations get it right i am an original indigenous no you are not aboriginal you are not indigenous and today we celebrate indigenous peoples day a first time in the united states what we do here is go back back back [Music] down [Music] when you went to residential school and you had to sing these strange songs and and say these prayers in an english language you know that that's quite a deal actually to try and be somebody else and you're not it changed me from thinking of who who i was all our songs our ceremonies all of those things that was driven out of us when we went to residential school but it's still there and it's good that some young people are starting to to go back to that culture is something that we were born with we have to remember that we not only know those things but to practice them my name is i come from a community called sioux valley i will always remain dakota no matter what when i was there i was totally lost i didn't know anybody i used to hide under my bed i used to hide in the closet i was just scared in fact being in that school my life was in danger and the ultimate is they wanted was to take the indian out of the child and in doing that they actually killed some we knew that there were children who didn't come home we knew there were unmarked graves i do wonder sometime why i survived you know it's a stark reality that we can't run from anymore no one can deny that this happened it's brought back a lot of memories for survivors like myself so we need to work together as a community and heal together as a survivor i carry a certain amount of responsibility to have the truth known [Music] i was probably seven years old when i first went to inuvik anglican residential school they tried stripping me of my identity made to look like every other little girl with the same cropped hair the same clothes the same routines same everything assimilation at its best i fought to keep my language because it was the only way i could communicate with my grandparents and my mother they were all unilingual he knew enochted speakers it was important to me that i kept that connection the verbal connection to be able to hear their stories of their lives they tried to break me but my inner strength and foundation persevered here i stand today strong with my language and culture born and named as edna agnes ichival i was named after three strong leaders [Music] i was six years old when they took me to a residential school i remember the day walking toward that school with my mother and it was a silent walk and i was so afraid 20 or 30 little kids herded into the showers and then your body being painted in white liquid of some kind your hair cropped and then doused in kerosene and that was pretty traumatizing the school had roughly 220 people half boys have girls and we were segregated if i was caught waving at my sister there'd be a punishment for it and so as a result of that segregation i never really learned any social skills that young people should be learning as they grow up from a religious and spiritual perspective of course the church has lobbied hard to convert indigenous people aboriginal people they said that we were heathen and pagan they targeted language in those things we had learned through all of millennia to know where we came from to know who we were as something that had to be eliminated before that time i lived in a place called guayastims they call it guilford island now we harvested from the forest all of the animals that we needed to provide as sustenance and from the ocean in front of us as well all of the species of whales and mink and fish and i had a connection to the environment around us and so after having spent years in those schools by the time we were ready to leave most of us were pretty broken many of us including myself descended into addictions alcoholism violence and it was pretty pretty difficult those schools lasted for over a hundred years there were over a hundred and fifty little children and the last school that closed in canada was in 1996 in saskatchewan there was a history on this land that had been absolutely ignored nobody knew about the residential school legacy nobody knew about the intent of the indian act the chronic challenges not facing aboriginals and were starting to accept the idea that we have the shared history for which we all are responsible for when the truth and reconciliation commission report was submitted i was in the room when justice murray sinclair the chair of the commission denounced canada he had just recited a litany of intensive harms against aboriginal people and and when he said canada you have committed cultural genocide there was just a silence in that room and then all of a sudden it erupted in euphoria you said survivors want an apology from the prime minister in the house of commons and i was there and i heard the words i'm sorry and then i couldn't see because my eyes were just flowing with tears i was so happy that somebody had said i'm sorry canada by the way is the only western country that has had a truth and reconciliation commission so we're trying to look through a new lens we and canadians we as an aboriginal we celebrate each other everybody cheering each other up as we move toward a more equal prosperous future for all of us my name is chief robert joseph and i believe that truth and reconciliation is canada president joe biden now declaring indigenous people's day a federal holiday for all of the u.s to celebrate our carly featurist spoke with local native americans to get an idea of how this decision impacts them what it means to them carly what did they have to say well caitlin indigenous peoples day is already an official city and state holiday in various locations including here in minnesota it has been celebrated by native americans for decades it's time i don't know how how else to say it but it's time just last year governor tim wall signed a proclamation to declare the second tuesday of each october indigenous peoples day in minnesota there are 11 tribal nations in the state including one right here in southeast minnesota on friday president biden became the first president to issue an official proclamation commemorating indigenous peoples day uplifts indigenous people we are resilient people who have survived who have survived assimilation uh removal extermination and termination and we're still here not only are we here but we're thriving prairie island indian community president shelly buck says this is only the beginning already starting to see some change and the change that i've been privileged to be a part of and see firsthand is by electing people that look like me when you see someone that looks like you doing great things it's empowering speaking of native leaders just this month dr gwen westerman was appointed as minnesota's poet laureate making her minnesota's first native in this position lieutenant governor peggy flanagan is also of native american descent historian and lakota native gary richards tells me indigenous people's day originated in south dakota indigenous day i think there should be mainstream programming that informs and lets people that don't go around on native tribes and peoples and lands i asked actually what's going on here the indigenous people i spoke with actually described this day as a second thanksgiving they say they are not trying to rewrite history but just tell it from their perspective going into that school i started to be influenced by that world i became separated from my mom and dad i became separate again from the life within the community that's the kind of trauma i began to come to know and come to live during the summer time when the school programming wasn't there i was able to travel with my grandma and grandpa to go out on the land to go and harvest from nature they were my teachers and they instilled within me those qualities that we rely on today and now this is what i am instilling within my granddaughter so when i sit down and work with her in making these baskets it helps to have that kind of appreciation knowing who she is in being my granddaughter my name is mark bataligus i come from i think mcshane robinson here on treaty territory [Music] in residential school we only lived in moments moments where we could just stand still be a little soldier not look not see not hear not witness anything i witnessed some of the children running away they'd be found brought back and they'd be whipped and slapped and punished physically sometimes sleep deprived no food a lot of us were malnourished our indian residential school experiences matter because we matter and we need to carry on with courage and honor our culture our languages our families our communities we are still resilient we're still here and we will continue to be i'm janet longclaws i live in long playing first nation i'm a residential school survivor [Music] i was picked up in 1958 i was six years old i didn't return to my community until 1969 11 years later it didn't take me long in residential school to recognize that athletes were treated better and when i observed this i made every effort to try and excel in every sport so i'd have an opportunity to get out of there every chance i had sports was about the only good thing that i recall out of residential school sports saved my life and saved many of our lives for the young people today i see great potential because it is my hope that the next generation don't encounter the genocide in the colonization that we experienced as children we are damaged goods today but we don't want to see that for the future my name is eugene arkhan i'm from the cree nation my treaty number is 380 and my residential school number was 781. this story and many others that are still missing is why every child matters to the first nations one is she and thanks for joining us on facts or frauds make sure you hit that thumbs up button you're subscribed ring the bell for notifications so the next time i premiere video you mean the live chat with everyone else and leave a comment in the comment section tell me what you think and a special thank you to our channel members tony a kingly 09 robert morley private jm led zeppelin will recruit 73 and of course you one ishi thank you i'll see you later