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Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.61,0:01:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[children singing] ♪ One little,\Ntwo little, three little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.15,0:01:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Four little, five little,\Nsix little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.82,0:01:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Seven little, eight little,\Nnine little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.23,0:01:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Ten little Indian boys. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.77,0:01:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Ten little, nine little,\Neight little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.02,0:01:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪Four little, five little,\Nsix little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.68,0:01:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Seven little, eight little,\Nnine little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.22,0:01:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ One little Indian boy. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.36,0:01:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Jump around, ten little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.90,0:01:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Jump around,\Nten little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.53,0:01:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Jump around, ten little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.78,0:01:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ One little Indian boy. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.02,0:01:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ One little, two little,\Nthree little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.58,0:01:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Four little, five little,\Nsix little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.31,0:01:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Seven little, eight little,\Nnine little Indians ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.71,0:01:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Ten little Indian boys. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.10,0:01:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Ten little, nine little,\Neight little Indians... ♪♪
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.77,0:01:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[singing fades out]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.98,0:01:56.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(speaker 1)\N"Ten Little Indians."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.54,0:02:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a song\Nthat was counting dead Indians
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.64,0:02:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back on the trails\Nwhen they would kill Indians.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.91,0:02:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-We'd see all these little kids \Nin uniform,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.87,0:02:06.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'd be wondering\Nhow come they're like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.99,0:02:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We weren't dressed like that,\Nbut these little kids were.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.97,0:02:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-I remember being younger,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.51,0:02:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing up on the reservation,\Nand being told,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.38,0:02:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't trust white people; \Ndon't listen to them."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.87,0:02:18.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never told why.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.95,0:02:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(recording) The government schools \Nare constantly being built,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.53,0:02:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hospitals added.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.49,0:02:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We bring them in,\Nclean them up,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.07,0:02:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start them on their way\Nto civilization.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.39,0:02:34.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-So I would ask social services \Nand human services audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.59,0:02:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How many people know \Nabout residential boarding schools?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.88,0:02:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people here do?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.28,0:02:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This never makes it\Ninto the history books.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.73,0:02:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is never talked about.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.19,0:02:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Why did those schools get started, \Nand who started them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.97,0:02:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what was the rationale behind it?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.98,0:02:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-The first general policy was
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.86,0:02:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the only good Indian\Nwas a dead Indian,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.73,0:02:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we needed to be killed, \Nexterminated, eradicated.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.43,0:02:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once they realized that's\Na little bit more difficult to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.17,0:03:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to have mass genocide \Nof a population,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.62,0:03:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the policies changed,\Nfrom killing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.05,0:03:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to killing the Indian \Nand saving the man.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.09,0:03:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a General Pratt \Nwho is well famous and documented
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.02,0:03:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for using those words, \N"to kill the Indian and save the man,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that we are subhuman,\Nand that our ways are savage,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.86,0:03:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we needed to be civilized.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.71,0:03:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the governments in Canada \Nand the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.44,0:03:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,followed that policy up until the 1980s,\Nin one form or another.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.78,0:03:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(survivor 1)\NThere is a boarding school far, far away,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.23,0:03:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we get mush and milk\Nthree times a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.94,0:03:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[singing] ♪ Oh, how the huskies run,\Nwhen they hear their dinner bell. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.83,0:03:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Oh, how the huskies run,\Nthree times a day. ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.08,0:03:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I say, I went to the Mush Hole \Nwhen I was four years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.95,0:03:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was there for nine years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.35,0:03:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once in a while, \Nwe'd come home in summertime,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.34,0:03:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.13,0:03:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the counselors came\Nand told my dad
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.13,0:03:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he couldn't raise us properly,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.12,0:03:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were at the Mush Hole one week,\Nand our heads were full of bugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.43,0:04:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(survivor 2) There was a lot of sad times,\Nbut I mean, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.80,0:04:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't get, like, angry \Nand have any resentment
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.54,0:04:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,till after I got out.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.00,0:04:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause I didn't know,\Nfrom just five-and-a-half to sixteen,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.54,0:04:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought it was just, \Nlike, a normal upbringing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.98,0:04:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, to not have no parents\Nand stuff like that [chuckling].
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.26,0:04:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's, uh--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.93,0:04:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after I got out, \Nand then they thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.12,0:04:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, this is the way\Nthey were supposed to be treating us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.58,0:04:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(survivor 3) I think my mother \Ncouldn't take care of us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.61,0:04:31.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because our father was into alcohol.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.33,0:04:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Me and my sister, \Nwe started there
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.25,0:04:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1945.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.99,0:04:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was five years old at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.53,0:04:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-We had all our hair cut off.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.24,0:04:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were made baldies;\Nwe were really bald.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.28,0:04:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that wasn't \Na very good feeling to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.14,0:04:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they used to call us\N"Mush Hole baldies."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.14,0:05:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what the kids \Non the reserve used to call us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.74,0:05:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Well, we can go in now.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.34,0:05:06.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, this is going \Nto take like, all day, eh?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.88,0:05:09.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[laughing]\N-Looks like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.69,0:05:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-We were taken to the hospital
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.93,0:05:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get checked out for nits \Nand whatever,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.89,0:05:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess that was,\Nyou know.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.47,0:05:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, they checked us out, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.41,0:05:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they split us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.53,0:05:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The school was split in age group,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.76,0:05:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by boys and girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.85,0:05:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boys were on one side,\Nthe girls were on one side.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.79,0:05:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they went from the lower age\Nup to high school level.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.87,0:05:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-My ma was gonna walk out here \Nand go to the store,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.18,0:05:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, at five-and-a-half,\Nmy sister tells me that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.80,0:05:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grabbed my ma's leg,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.98,0:06:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of course we were all just crying.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.73,0:06:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole four of us were just crying.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.48,0:06:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, you know, 'cause my ma \Nwas going to leave us here.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.80,0:06:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I grabbed my ma's leg
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.11,0:06:12.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, well, crying and that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.51,0:06:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just kinda like, hollering,\Nlike, "Ma don't leave me."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.26,0:06:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't leave me," like, you know.\NSo...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.06,0:06:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyway,\Nwhile that was going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.87,0:06:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a supervisor came over \Nand just kinda grabbed me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.98,0:06:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and took me off my ma's leg,\Nand uh...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.29,0:06:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then my ma just walked out,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.27,0:06:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I never seen her.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.25,0:06:39.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those ten years,\NI don't see her.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.09,0:06:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She never come to see me once.\NI don't know why.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.86,0:06:45.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-They took my brother away
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.26,0:06:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to where he was supposed to stay.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.23,0:06:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my sister, \Nshe just went on her own.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.76,0:06:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was with most of the four- \Nand five-year-olds.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.01,0:07:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't go to school\N'cause we were too young.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.47,0:07:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Yet, to the agencies \Nof the government,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.87,0:07:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are being rapidly brought \Nfrom their state
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.06,0:07:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of comparative savagery and barbarism \Nto one of civilization.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.97,0:07:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-When we used our language-- \Nat that young age, too,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.89,0:07:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were just learning, so...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.66,0:07:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They used to wash \Nour mouth out with soap.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.78,0:07:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would take \Nthe whole bunch of us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.13,0:07:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and march us to the shower--\Ncold shower--
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.82,0:07:32.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'd throw us in there,\Nand beat us along the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.23,0:07:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a routine thing, I guess. \NI don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.77,0:07:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But...\Nthat taught us, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.50,0:07:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-They'd throw us \Nin this dark press room
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.25,0:07:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they kept \Nall our Sunday "go to meeting'" clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.92,0:07:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they'd throw Rosemary \Nand I in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.76,0:07:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell us the rats \Nwere going to get us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.09,0:07:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I didn't know then \Nwhy I was being thrown in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.91,0:08:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I used to wonder,\Nwhat did I do?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.20,0:08:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would cry,\Nand Rosemary would cry,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.25,0:08:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we cried and cried \Nfor hours in there,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.91,0:08:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing why we were in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.47,0:08:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they'd take us out.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.52,0:08:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I did get to learn \Na little bit of English,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.24,0:08:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew then \Nthey were throwing us in there
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.26,0:08:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we wouldn't speak English.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.16,0:08:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And... I must have been stubborn \Nright from the day I was born,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.15,0:08:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I thought to myself,\N"I'll never speak English, either."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.38,0:08:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You want me to speak English?\NI won't speak English."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.23,0:08:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I didn't speak at all \Nfor two whole years,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.24,0:08:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I figured if I spoke Indian \NI'd get a lickin',
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.84,0:08:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if I spoke English,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.33,0:08:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it would be against everything \Nthat I stood for,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.56,0:08:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I didn't speak at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.66,0:08:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-But today,\Nthey all speak English,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.20,0:08:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some have taken business courses,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.95,0:08:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home economics, \Nand other higher training.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.73,0:09:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-Took us into another room down there,\Nand maybe down in the play room,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.97,0:09:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we took all our clothes off\Nand we put the clothes of the school on.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.78,0:09:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they give us a number.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.11,0:09:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my number was, like, 48.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.13,0:09:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my brother was 36.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.00,0:09:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-My family was the state-run institute.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.64,0:09:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the nickname \Nfor the Thomas Indian School is "Salem".
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.82,0:09:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Salem was derived from "asylum."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.42,0:09:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you now what an asylum is;\Nit's for crazy people.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.12,0:09:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we were thought of \Nas being crazy, I guess.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.97,0:09:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were just considered bad people,\Nbad children,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.28,0:09:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they weren't bad children, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.93,0:09:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were placed there \Nfor so many different reasons,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.84,0:09:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not because of any kind \Nof delinquency on their part.