im cree and from alberta. i have been forcefully taken away from my parents when i was 5 years old. the night i was taken away was traumatizing. i get emotional just talking about it. i have numerous mental health issues. my depression is very bad and i attempted suicide many times. im 14 now. i dont even know my language or what going to round dancing are like .
@1991jdclark
4 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry this happened to you and your family. Our policies are traumatizing families. No a child should go through what you have. I'm sorry.
@fancyleaf8364
4 жыл бұрын
Wait why were you taken away?
@haydentallon9730
4 жыл бұрын
@@fancyleaf8364 atleast one person is brave enough to ask this relevant questions.
@RebeccaBrittain99
4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunate that you didn’t have family to take you in 😢
@lev2914
4 жыл бұрын
@@fancyleaf8364 domestic abuse and child endangerment
@emmaberger3748
3 жыл бұрын
The root problem is not lack of funding, it’s colonialism, and lack of caring
@emdrw4650
3 жыл бұрын
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT SISTER!!!
@anniefitzsimmons4003
6 жыл бұрын
Only through truth and education will we find a solution to this problem. This should not be happening. These are just little kids that need to thrive through their culture and their people. I hope we are working towards a better future!!!!!
@Kawennaien
5 жыл бұрын
My daughter been in care almost 7 months and shes suppose to come home but the social services is making up excuses to keep her in care 😡😡😡 Never even tried reintegration back into the home
@staysafe_eatcake6587
5 жыл бұрын
shame on them. I hope you get your daughter back
@supahcookie3438
5 жыл бұрын
Never trust them
@davidhollenshead4892
3 жыл бұрын
Please focus on getting your daughter back & on personal self-improvement so they can't claim you are an unfit mother. If you keep a journal of how you are working towards your goals they won't be able to claim she is better off in the system...
@beataannanowak659
3 жыл бұрын
I hope you will reunite and I hope she will not suffer. You both suffer. That is just not right.
@manobb403
Жыл бұрын
so heartbreaking, taking away a child from the mother, what can be more painful? the governmnet should have focused on making home a better place. They should have invested that money in the home rather than "foster care". A mother has the right to won her child
@tommytwospirit4197
2 жыл бұрын
As native Grown up in foster care myself a native myself I understand there different stories between foster families for some parents do it for different reasons. For myself I was put in two main families that showed actual love as a real family. Sadly the first family was cut short due too death of foster mom but with my second family I was given more opportunity and my parents never took in another set of foster kids as we aged out. It was one and done deal for them. I also note I'm part of a council for children that were in foster care and to help improve the system
@shezroyaltycollection3650
5 жыл бұрын
This is so sad. Something really needs to be done
@tysturge5139
5 жыл бұрын
Something has been done though, the canadian government taxes non natives and gives natives 400 million dollars a year. What its being spent on by natives is the issue. drugs and alcohol, refusal to work, and inability to move on is draining canada.
@stephenrioux6821
4 жыл бұрын
@@tysturge5139 You'll never learn anything if you chug craft brew with the same crew every night. Get your opinions from different types of people, and try a little less brew.
@stephenrioux6821
4 жыл бұрын
@@tysturge5139 And all of us White folk owe a lot of back-rent!
@tysturge5139
4 жыл бұрын
@@stephenrioux6821 We dont owe anything. and I do not drink if youre implying that. I stand by what i said, every bit of it.
@davidhollenshead4892
3 жыл бұрын
@@tysturge5139 You really should look yourself in the mirror...
@stephenrioux6821
4 жыл бұрын
I asked a friend why, if 7% of the population is Native, they represent only 2% of the Student body in the Universities. He told me that it's because they are academically unqualified. He's an 8th grade teacher. I stopped speaking to him. It's in the soul.
@stephenrioux6821
4 жыл бұрын
Only 33 comments after 3-1/2 years. I rest my case. It's in the soul.
@rduse9197
4 жыл бұрын
What nationality was he?
@marymary-vg2ts
4 жыл бұрын
attention span is low. They are overgrown adult children who have no interest in owning anything.
@emdrw4650
3 жыл бұрын
That there my boy is institutional racism...systemic racism...call him out on it....im sure you wil get a negative response....its learnt behavior !!!!
@dcc2351
3 жыл бұрын
I Agree with you. Education is not encouraged in the native community. My sister was one of three natives in the entire university! School is free and still there not going. It comes down to a lack of caring parents to raise children with love and encouragement. It's tragic. But it's not white people's fault that natives have so little love for their children. It's something in the hearts, it's something dark in the soul.
@KatariaGujjar
3 жыл бұрын
Do any Canadians remember learning this in school, history or social science class? I don't!
@1991jdclark
4 жыл бұрын
As a none indigenous Canadian, I am enraged by the fact Canadian citizens are not screaming out to stop this.
@haydentallon9730
4 жыл бұрын
Care to explain how to stop this? Should we return children to abusive families?
@haydentallon9730
4 жыл бұрын
@n cw good job strawmanning a pointless argument. I actually don't support the foster care system. What I do support is a productive discussion. Asking someone who wants the foster care system erased to answer what to do with the thousands of children in the system as well as the children that are currently being abused in their homes. Which they sorely neglect in their fight to champion children
@RebeccaBrittain99
4 жыл бұрын
Retro Stoner Eh? No ones asking for the entire foster care system to be “erased” 🤔 lol
@haydentallon9730
4 жыл бұрын
@@RebeccaBrittain99 kinda missing my point entirely. Read a handful comments or idk maybe even this OP. You'll notice a bunch of people crying to "stop this" or "how can Canadians do this" all while suggesting no solutions of their own. My comment was to evoke someone to actually find or give me a solution. There did I explain at a slower 3rd grade level for you? Or you just mad at words rather than trying to understand the character of my statement.
@marymary-vg2ts
4 жыл бұрын
@n cw take care of your own. Stop making so many out of wedlock duh..lazy
@jadewilson8443
3 жыл бұрын
This is such an important issue. More needs to be done in order to fight for more funding for Indigenous communities. When will we say enough is enough?
@haroldrobinson4849
6 жыл бұрын
Good job! Connection between Indian Residential Schools and overrepresentation in foster care nicely explained. I might add that Article 16.3 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads that the State has a duty to protect families because the family is the fundamental building block of society. Canada breached its duty and we are living with the dire consequences of that breach.
@davidhollenshead4892
3 жыл бұрын
The only thing they left out is how it will take at least a generation for the healing to occur...
@fightfannerd2078
2 жыл бұрын
Doing drugs & having no education
@marselluswallace6
3 жыл бұрын
What about the services for non indigenous? Is it bad for them too
@crazykins9361
Жыл бұрын
Yes but the problem is is 50% of kids in foster care are indigenous when their numbers in the general population are much lower than that. That is a huge disparity. A lot of the disparity comes from underfunding of programs for indigenous families/poverty.
@marselluswallace6
Жыл бұрын
@@crazykins9361 Thats a misconception. Its not due to money from the government lol. Its mainly due to culture and family values. Lack of countability and respinsibility. Immigrants and refugees come here with next to nothing and have succeeded in the past with very little help and they continue to thrive now.
@ritadoucet-canada8480
6 жыл бұрын
Technology is advancing at a fast pace, robotization will be the norm in the coming years. Why not create your own free world, being self sufficient would benefit everyone on the reserves and keep their children safe and allow them to continue with their traditions. I've watched many episodes by Michael Telling (Ubuntu) and I see that the indigenous people can band together and create their own free world. Pool your money into farming for meats, you've got your hunters, greenhouses for vegetables, water sources can be found almost anywhere here in Canada, dig wells. You can now grow vegetables in one big house regardless of where you live, lighting is the key to the growth of plants, all the knowledge to create this kind of living is out there. Indigenous people are doing the same as the non-native government is doing, they are taking the money and not growing with it, in the end money means nothing. I am one of those who lost everything, no family, no knowledge of native traditions, yet bands follow the laws imposed upon them, they refuse to give a woman same rights as men, although they are now moving closer to giving them those rights it's not fast enough, they'll all wait until it is decided by the government once again, the fight is because of money again. Each Chief should take the initiative and do what's right, not wait for the government to make that decision and force them to accept us, we didn't ask to be abandoned, alas even our bands do their own injustices.
@katerwhall1865
6 жыл бұрын
I agree, when all are set on an even playing field than they will flourish.
@shhh3185
3 ай бұрын
I sure wish I was taken from my indigenous grandmother's foster home. Me and my siblings were so abused....I've seen horrific home conditions on reserves. What is native culture? Abuse? I don't see any native folks living in traditional ways - where are they???? Indigenous people need to have some accountability for strengthening their own culture, too. Why does everything have to be a PROGRAM? Why is everything the white man's fault? This is so frustrating. I have CPTSD from my childhood yet I have to take accountability for my behaviour and healing. Why not these residential school survivors who have perpetrated all this "intergenerational" trauma on their own children? No wonder regular Canadians are tired of listening to us continually crying.
@manobb403
Жыл бұрын
This is the most shameful thing about Canada, why are they so discriminatory towards indigenous people how infect deserve the most special treatment because it is their land in the first place. Why don't they wanna give them their rights? This shows we have a long way to go, when we fail to give the basic rights to people who deserve it the most..
@ryma710
Жыл бұрын
Why does everyone want money from the Canadian Government? Theres so many battles turning to government to fix it. Allocation makes sense bc why spend so much protecting yourself in court and why pay so much to children in foster care when its less expsneive to keep them in their homes but help their communities. The government needs to sit down and actually think about where to place the money while others need to let them to do this so they can have more funding for things they want to have. Otherwise they expect to give the government more and it will just create another recession which will hurt us alll
@borisreitman3315
3 жыл бұрын
What prevents and indigenous person to leave the reserve and live in a city? When we have immigrated to Canada from abroad, we had no savings and could not speak English, and we have lived on welfare until we found jobs. In the city we enjoy parks, playgrounds, renting normal apartments, etc. If funding of infrastructure is the issue, just move to the city.
@dcc2351
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@virtualasylum7013
2 жыл бұрын
They are just overgrown children....the government keeps throwing money at them to live in their victimhood so that is where they are content. It is really pathetic.
@masonmckenzie9278
2 жыл бұрын
You immigrated and played the system and it worked for you. Canada wasn't built with consideration for its indigenous peoples, and no nation has been founded that way. Canada has always made the process for settlers and immigrants easy and it is intended to be that way. Indigenous people were not allowed to bank, buy or sell, or participate in the economy within the last 80 years. If you know anyone who is around 80 years, imagine what life would have been like for them if they had been taken away from their home as an infant and then not allowed to participate in Canadian society once turning 18. It was illegal for Indigenous people to keep their children from attending church-run schools. Aboriginals couldn't even vote in Canada until 1960. Indigenous children were taken from their families until the mid-1980s. Many children were sexually, mentally and physically abused in residential schools and they passed that trauma on to their children. There were no supports for indigenous people. Many children never made it home. How can you speak about how easy it is when you are white and an immigrant in Canada? How can you speak of ease when you have never seen or experienced the aboriginal worldview? You are no true Canadian if you do not understand the importance of reconciliation between indigenous people and the Canadian Government. Learn before you speak.
@borisreitman3315
2 жыл бұрын
@@masonmckenzie9278what’s the evidence for bad treatment of children in residential schools? Why were children placed in residential schools? Have you seen in what miserable conditions children were raised in aboriginal “families”? There is no concept of family as we know it in their society. Girls have children at 15, then dish them off to grandma.
@masonmckenzie9278
2 жыл бұрын
I doubt you'll have the capacity to review this information given your comment on this video, but I've posted some links to a few articles above. The evidence is abundant. The Canadian government acknowledges the history and impacts of residential schools. You don't have to, but as an immigrant in Canada, you should take the time to try. Don't be proud to be ignorant, learn and let your opinion change.
@matthewmann8969
3 жыл бұрын
Canada like most parts of the Americas was built off the backs of First Nations also known as Amerindians at the hands of Eskimos, Europeans, Metis better known as Mestizos, etc
@fightfannerd2078
2 жыл бұрын
Lol k
@3_Degrees
4 жыл бұрын
This didn't answer the question at all.
@jgeybp
4 жыл бұрын
07 335i watch it again instead of just playing Fortnite in your moms tablet.
@3_Degrees
4 жыл бұрын
Jaztine Gabe I have never played fortnite as I'm in my 30s making over 100,000 dollars per year snowflake . Nice try . Shouldn't you be out robbing a liquor store or sniffing something ?
@irvingsingh4551
3 жыл бұрын
@@3_Degrees With the way you carry yourself, by re-watching the video I still believe you'd have trouble understanding. No point in helping such weak minded person. With your 100,000 try buying a book and begin some research before making yourself look like a fool on the internet.
@3_Degrees
3 жыл бұрын
@Irving Singh Nice try , McDonald's employee. I have 2 bachelor's degrees and a master's degree and am a published author in the Canadian journal of healthcare policy. While I was in university , I took an IQ test as part of my undergrad and scored a 138, putting me in the 98th percentile for intelligence . But go on and tell me more about my weak mind. Oops 🙊.
@3_Degrees
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t worry , I wouldn’t reply either , Irving . It’s hard to talk with a clown shoe in your mouth .
@bashful905jr6
3 жыл бұрын
First nation leaders & indigenous brothers & sisters need to create their own group homes & foster care homes. The government won't do it for you, so do it yourself and do it for your people.
@kellysavalas5937
2 жыл бұрын
Thats a joke. Read my comment at the top. True story. Sagkeeng CFS Winnipeg 2013 on CBC.
@jupiter.6268
2 ай бұрын
Many PEOPLE CAN SEE THE PROBLEMS BUT YOU ARE IGNORANT TO A SOLUTION.
@haydentallon9730
4 жыл бұрын
The solution is only to reinforce family structures. But the matter of fact is that children aren't able to recognize all forms of abuse. That's why social services intervene. They don't randomly enter homes. They are called in often by the relatives of the children. Inherently this is traumatizing, but to leave children in these homes is ignorant. The government run by our people created these policies to help Canadian children of all races and creeds. Is it perfect? No. Is the world perfect? No. What is the better solution ? Reinforce the nuclear family. A mom and a dad in every household. Welfare and baby bonuses have ruined this.
@davidhollenshead4892
3 жыл бұрын
First Nations People tend to have more than just a "nuclear family"...
@Justice4evander
5 жыл бұрын
#justiceforevander
@fightfannerd2078
2 жыл бұрын
Hmm I wonder why
@maybelikealittlebit
6 жыл бұрын
:(
@peterhoward492
6 жыл бұрын
The idea that funding will fix the problem is just as delusional as thinking assimilation could work.
@tysturge5139
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry, i guess we will just take the $400 million we pay every year and not fund schooling.
@michaelmcintyre9179
4 жыл бұрын
in the past 60 years the Canadian Government has spent over 215 Billion dollars on the Indians. obviously a poor investment. would have been better to just give them 500 grans , and say your on your own / so long
@RebeccaBrittain99
4 жыл бұрын
Michael McIntyre thank you government 🙏😊 The least they can do after all that they did/do
@don-cw1yz
5 жыл бұрын
So why are so many indigenous children in foster care now? The presenter says more funding is required. So how much funding is needed? Is this funding to be permanent or temporary? The presenter says more needed for housing, social care etc... Yet what are the real reasons that children are being removed? Could it be parents that have alcohol or drug problems? Could it be unemployment? Perhaps parents with poor family values? Yet when companies want to put a pipeline through First Nations lands, the Band councils say yes but hereditary chiefs say no. That pipeline would provide jobs and a steady income stream to the First Nations Bands. Why are the heredity chiefs saying no, maybe because they expect they should control and get the steady income stream and not the elected band councils? Why do we read about chiefs getting huge salaries and the band is lacking food? Band councils going to Vegas for a convention? The presenter keeps dwelling on the past. Residential schools were in place from about the 1930s to the 1990s. Last Residential school closed in 1996. So we are talking about 29 to 99 years ago for the most part. It was wrong to have the residential schools and there were many cases of abuse. Some very bad people were involved in those schools. The same things went on in white societies. The basic way of thought up until the late 60s was spare the rod and spoil the child in all white/indigenous families of those time periods. Yet my point is what is being done now. Why are there so many Indigenous children being removed from their parents? You can't blame everything on the white man. The First Nations peoples must also look inwardly as to why this is happening.
@Azulakayes
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, how very caucasian of you. So 60 years of injustice can disappear in 20 years? Let's not even deal with colonization and disenfranchisement of the first nations but ofcourse, in typical caucasian vampiric fashion, blame the victims. Well done.
@atshoresoflife
3 жыл бұрын
I guess he has a point.
@fightfannerd2078
2 жыл бұрын
@@Azulakayes stop crying & take control of your community, stop blaming White folks
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