I guess it's just that family connection and just not having some kind of memory at times and it's also goes back to being robotic there's no feeling no emotions no nothing if you got hurt no one was there to comfort you you know things like just things that is that as a child they should have gotten from a loving parent you know or an adult who looked after me I wasn't able to parent my children as well as I wish I could have no I never read to me you know no one ever came in
cuddled me or you know gave me a hug if I was feeling sad or upset or I'd fallen down and no one was there for me I had to just basically pick myself up and keep going I'd like to think I'm getting better at it with my grandchildren did your did your parents go to residential schools yes they did she just told me that she had actually gotten punched in the face for speaking her language and she flew across the room she said and landed against a rad and her tooth protruded through her upper lip
so she had a scar on her lip she also told us that she did not teach us her language which was a jib away because she didn't want us to experience what she went through it was her way of protecting us my dad he just kind of said you know what he says with you he says we were like little robots we were like little soldiers he says we used to used to parade around like soldiers he said and we were so hungry and that's where he learned how to eat raw potatoes least wonder why
he sweet rob potatoes but like they were hungry so they would eat raw potatoes and then they'd take some of the potatoes and at night and they'd exchange for bread with other students [Music] if I was to give advice I would suggest that people start to listen to allow us to talk and to be heard and to listen that's such an integral piece of this whole process is listening and actually believing us you know because at the beginning people said that we all colluded across Canada to make this story up and I was like how
could we possibly have ever done that we couldn't so it's it's that belief that things really did happen to us and it's affected us in many ways personally you know in our everyday life our relationships with people in our family and it's because of that that a relationship being affected we can't be who we should be as healthy individuals as parents you know community members cousins relatives any kind of relations that we have I think that's very important and that we all sit together it's nice when we can sit together too and talk you know
like you know how can we move forward let's move together let's move forward together [Music]
