nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
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On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The jury’s subsequent acquittal of Stanley captured international attention, raising questions about racism embedded within Canada’s legal system and propelling Colten’s family to national and international stages in their pursuit of justice. Sensitively directed by Tasha Hubbard, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands.
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Main credits
Hubbard, Tasha (film director)
Hubbard, Tasha (screenwriter)
Hubbard, Tasha (film producer)
Other credits
Director of photography, George Hupka; editor, Hans Olson; composer, Jason Burnstick.
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[crickets chirping]
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Put the backpack over first.
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Okay...
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so I\'ll hold it.
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Okay, crawl through.
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[Quannah]: I\'ll go through
the other side.
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[Tasha]: Okay? You\'re in.
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Good job.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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Hmm.
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When I was little,
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this whole area
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was just natural prairie,
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but somebody\'s cultivated.
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You see the strip there?
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Oh, yeah.
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[birds and crickets chirping]
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[Quannah]: Hey.
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[Oskiya]: Yeah?
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[Quannah]: Do you ever want it
to go back, like, how it was?
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Like, before the settlers came?
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[Oskiya]: I\'m not sure.
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[♪♪♪]
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[Tasha Hubbard]: I am Cree,
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and I was raised
by a homesteading family
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in Southern Saskatchewan.
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I was adopted,
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one of many
Indigenous children
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raised away from our culture.
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This is my grandpa.
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He is the constant man
in my life.
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He\'s very proud of me
and my documentaries,
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even when he doesn\'t understand
what it is I actually do.
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Oh, Tasha.
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It probably won\'t even grow.
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[chuckling]
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Do you think it\'s going
to grow, Quannah?
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[Quannah]: Yeah, it\'s good.
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[Grandpa chuckles]
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[Tasha Hubbard]: I\'m lucky
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because my grandpa
always makes us feel
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that we\'re part of his family.
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[birds chirping]
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When I was a kid,
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I was confused
about my identity.
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My adoptive parents
wanted me to know who I was.
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When I was 16, they helped me
find my birth parents.
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[man]: Yeah, go ahead,
put \'em in there.
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[Tasha]: I try to make things
different for my son.
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He is growing up
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knowing all of his relations
across the prairies.
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Very good chocolate milkshakes.
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The prairies have
a complicated history,
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and Indigenous people
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are often at the receiving end
of racism.
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My son and my nephew
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have been taught
to not accept it,
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to not internalize it,
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even when we feel it
every day.
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Our motto is
\"This is our territory.
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We belong here,
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even if people try
to make us think we don\'t.\"
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The boys and I were travelling
in the summer of 2016
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when I found out
a young Cree man
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named Colten Boushie
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nwas shot and killed by a farmer.
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The suddenness of his death
stunned me.
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Our Cree beliefs tell us
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that our children
don\'t belong to us,
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they belong to themselves,
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but we are responsible
for keeping them safe.
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I always thought
I could teach the boys
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how to protect themselves
as they grow into men.
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Colten\'s death
made me realize I was wrong.
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Colten\'s family tell me
he was a kind young man
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who loved horses.
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He cut firewood for elders
and helped out at ceremonies.
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[evening birdcalls]
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[horses nickering]
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[cicadas buzz]
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He could have shot that,
the gun in the air.
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And told them,
\"Get out of the car.
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\"You guys are going to sit
on the side of the road
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while the RCMP
are on their way,\"
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but he took it
upon himself to...
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justice.
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He figured, \"Oh,\" you know,
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\"they\'re on my land,\"
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without considering a life
or anything?
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Just go out there
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and just start
shooting his gun at people,
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walk right up behind my... son
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and shoot him
in the back of the head?
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A mother does not deserve
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their children
to go before them.
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[Tasha, narrating]:
On that summer day,
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Colten\'s girlfriend, her cousin,
and two other friends
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picked Colten up.
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They drank, swam,
and then headed home.
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Colten was sleeping
in the back of the SUV.
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The other two young men
stopped at a farm
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nand tried to break into a truck
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by hitting the door
with a .22 rifle.
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The rifle breaks,
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and they put it in the backseat
of their vehicle.
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The SUV the young people
were driving
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had one tire on the rim.
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Gerald Stanley was known
for fixing cars,
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and his farm was close by.
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The young men
drove into his yard.
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One got out
and jumped on a parked quad.
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Gerald and his son, Sheldon,
were in the yard
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and started yelling.
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The young man got back
into the vehicle,
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and they attempted
to drive away.
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Sheldon smashed
their windshield with a hammer
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and Gerald kicked
their taillight,
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then ran to get a gun.
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Driving on the rim,
and unable to see,
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the driver ran into
a parked SUV
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and came to a stop.
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The two young men
exited the vehicle and ran.
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Stanley fired two shots.
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Colten woke up,
nand jumped into the front seat.
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A few seconds later,
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Colten was dead
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from a close-range shot
to the head.
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Colten\'s girlfriend
and her friend
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would later testify that
Gerald\'s wife, Leesa, said,
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\"That\'s what you get
for trespassing.\"
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[train whistle growing louder]
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The next day,
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nthe RCMP issue a press release,
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but Colten\'s death
or Stanley\'s actions
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aren\'t the focus.
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Instead, the RCMP say
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that Colten\'s friends
entered private property,
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are suspected of theft,
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and that someone died
as a result.
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The response is swift.
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Numerous online comments
are made about the shooting.
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Many are posted
on a farmer\'s Facebook group
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that eventually closes.
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Comments are also posted
on a different group
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ncalled \"Farmers with Firearms.\"
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Some are from people
living in towns and cities.
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So as we were driving back
to Red Pheasant from Saskatoon,
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is when I went on my Facebook,
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and my cousins let me know
he was shot.
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They had a flat tire,
and he was shot,
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and I was like \"Okay,\"
you know, like, \"Who shot him?\"
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You know,
\"Where did this happen?\"
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I had all of these questions,
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but they didn\'t have
the details.
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But when I went on Facebook,
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and I seen all these...
[voice breaking]
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these messages--
these comments by people
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about \"thieving Indians
getting what they deserved.\"
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\"Don\'t go on people\'s property
if you don\'t want to get shot.\"
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You know, \"We work hard
for our stuff,
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and you\'re going
to come and steal it.
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I\'d shoot you, too.\"
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And reading all these comments,
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and I\'m, like, messaging,
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like commenting back
as fast as my fingers will type,
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and at one point,
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I just grabbed my phone,
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and I threw it
at the windshield,
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\'cause we were driving,
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and my husband was like,
\"Don\'t go on there anymore.
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Don\'t read that stuff.
Like you\'d...\"
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I said, \"Well, they\'re saying
the most hateful stuff,
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and they don\'t know
what happened.\"
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Gerald Stanley is charged
with 2nd-degree murder
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two days after Colten\'s death.
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Stanley\'s first
court appearance
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is in North Battleford
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at the provincial courthouse,
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and he will be moved
to Battleford
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for his bail hearing.
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There is a significant
RCMP presence.
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Several reporters tell me
this is not usual.
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[Indigenous singers
and drummers]
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[♪♪♪]
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[♪♪♪]
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[Jace Boushie]:
Not remorseful!
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No remorse in this man\'s eyes
or his family\'s!
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For a lost baby.
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[Sheldon Wuttunee]: Although
there is a lot of anger,
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a lot of grief,
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the legal system
will do its part
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in terms of
the RCMP investigation,
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as well as the court process.
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We need to have confidence
in that moving forward,
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and hopefully
that justice will be served.
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[woman shouts]:
\"Murder is murder!\"
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[Tasha, narrating]:
Stanley\'s family is escorted
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to the RCMP headquarters.
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None of the media get an image
of Stanley himself.
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[Alvin Baptiste]:
And non-Aboriginal people,
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I want to thank you also
for your support also.
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We must stop racism.
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Racism is hatred.
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We cannot continue this.
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We cannot hand this down
generation to generation.
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[Tasha, narrating]:
At the bail hearing,
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it comes out that Stanley used
a restricted handgun
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to shoot Colten,
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and that there were 12 guns
found on his property.
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Eventually, Stanley is released
on $10,000 bail.
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[protestors shouting
and chanting]
00:12:16.417 --> 00:12:18.709
[chanting] \"Justice for Colten!\"
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Justice for Colten!
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[shouts of outrage]
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Murderer! Murderer!
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Justice for Colten!
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[chanting in protest]
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Justice for Colten!
Justice for Colten!
00:12:34.792 --> 00:12:39.792
Justice for Colten!
Justice for Colten...
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[Tasha, narrating]:
Red Pheasant, Sweetgrass,
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Little Pine, and Poundmaker
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are some of the surrounding
First Nations
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in the Battlefords,
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named after the Chiefs
who negotiated Treaty Six
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with the Crown.
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Stanley\'s farm is just
a few miles away
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from Red Pheasant,
00:12:59.709 --> 00:13:02.125
where Colten was from.
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nThis is a conflicted territory,
00:13:06.667 --> 00:13:07.542
and Stanley\'s actions
00:13:07.542 --> 00:13:12.041
have exposed
long-standing wounds.
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My first film job
was doing background casting
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on a CBC miniseries
about Cree Chief Big Bear.
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I cast my birth father
as a Chief
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at the time of Treaty.
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My uncle played
Chief Big Bear.
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That film changed things
for me as a young woman.
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I started to learn about
my history as a Cree person,
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especially what happened
because of colonialism.
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[♪♪♪]
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It is a heartbreaking history.
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I want my son to know
all that was done
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to ensure
his generation\'s survival.
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[♪♪♪]
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[distant thunder rumbles]
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The buffalo
always sustained us.
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The newcomers saw this.
00:14:07.542 --> 00:14:09.917
When they started
killing them off,
00:14:09.917 --> 00:14:13.709
we started to die from hunger.
00:14:13.709 --> 00:14:15.208
Our leaders realized
00:14:15.208 --> 00:14:18.208
we had to find
a new way to live.
00:14:18.208 --> 00:14:18.959
They came together
00:14:18.959 --> 00:14:22.083
at Fort Carlton and Fort Pitt
in 1876
00:14:22.083 --> 00:14:24.625
to meet the Crown\'s
representatives.
00:14:24.625 --> 00:14:28.250
They negotiated our future
through Treaty Six,
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a nation-to-nation agreement.
00:14:31.250 --> 00:14:32.291
Our people were told
00:14:32.291 --> 00:14:34.959
that the newly-arrived
North-West Mounted Police
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were there to protect us.
00:14:37.625 --> 00:14:39.041
Livelihood,
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education,
00:14:40.291 --> 00:14:41.542
health care,
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hunting rights, and more,
00:14:43.375 --> 00:14:44.083
were all promised
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in exchange
for sharing the land
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to the depth of a plough.
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We were told
we kept our freedom,
00:14:53.458 --> 00:14:55.041
and because the Treaties
were done
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through our
traditional ceremonies,
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most believed the promises
made by the Crown.
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No one knew
00:15:02.250 --> 00:15:05.375
the government of Canada
was preparing the Indian Act
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at the same time,
00:15:06.458 --> 00:15:10.458
which said Canada
could dictate our lives.
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No one knew
00:15:11.208 --> 00:15:12.041
the North-West Mounted Police
00:15:12.041 --> 00:15:15.000
was there
to push us onto reserves.
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No one knew
the written documents
00:15:17.375 --> 00:15:20.083
said we surrendered the land.
00:15:20.083 --> 00:15:22.208
Big Bear
and a few other leaders
00:15:22.208 --> 00:15:25.542
wanted to negotiate
a better deal.
00:15:25.542 --> 00:15:26.458
Government representatives,
00:15:26.458 --> 00:15:29.709
like Indian Affairs
Commissioner Edgar Dewdney
00:15:29.709 --> 00:15:31.375
nand his assistant, Hayter Reed,
00:15:31.375 --> 00:15:35.166
wanted them all to move away
from the coming railway,
00:15:35.166 --> 00:15:37.583
nso they used hunger as a weapon
00:15:37.583 --> 00:15:41.041
against anyone
trying to resist.
00:15:41.041 --> 00:15:43.291
Big Bear
tried to choose a reserve
00:15:43.291 --> 00:15:45.542
near Little Pine
and Poundmaker,
00:15:45.542 --> 00:15:46.959
but it was not approved.
00:15:46.959 --> 00:15:51.375
He and his people were sent
to Frog Lake, Alberta.
00:15:51.375 --> 00:15:53.542
The government brought in
an Indian Agent
00:15:53.542 --> 00:15:54.875
named Thomas Quinn,
00:15:54.875 --> 00:15:57.709
who had a reputation
for cruelty.
00:15:57.709 --> 00:16:02.917
He continually refused rations
to the starving people.
00:16:02.917 --> 00:16:04.291
Another man, John Delaney,
00:16:04.291 --> 00:16:06.875
forced the women
to trade their bodies
00:16:06.875 --> 00:16:10.875
for food
for their hungry children.
00:16:10.875 --> 00:16:12.792
On April 2, 1885,
00:16:12.792 --> 00:16:16.208
the Cree warriors,
led by Wandering Spirit,
00:16:16.208 --> 00:16:18.041
nfinally pushed back with force,
00:16:18.041 --> 00:16:21.208
killing nine men
they knew as their oppressors,
00:16:21.208 --> 00:16:24.000
including Thomas Quinn.
00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.375
The reserves
in the Battleford area
00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:27.875
were also kept hungry.
00:16:27.875 --> 00:16:31.041
A group of leaders and warriors
went to Fort Battleford
00:16:31.041 --> 00:16:34.750
to meet with their Indian Agent
to ask for food.
00:16:34.750 --> 00:16:37.625
The people of the town
of Battleford got scared
00:16:37.625 --> 00:16:40.792
and barricaded themselves
into the Fort.
00:16:40.792 --> 00:16:42.917
When the Cree and Nakoda
arrived,
00:16:42.917 --> 00:16:45.417
the Indian Agent
refused to come out,
00:16:45.417 --> 00:16:47.000
and so some of
the hungry people
00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:51.041
took what they needed
in the deserted town.
00:16:51.041 --> 00:16:54.917
The government was
already sending troops north
00:16:54.917 --> 00:16:55.875
from Swift Current
00:16:55.875 --> 00:16:57.125
to find and punish Big Bear
00:16:57.125 --> 00:16:59.792
and his warrior chief,
Wandering Spirit.
00:16:59.792 --> 00:17:02.625
One troop\'s leader,
Colonel William Otter,
00:17:02.625 --> 00:17:06.333
decided on his own
to attack Poundmaker\'s camp.
00:17:06.333 --> 00:17:09.667
Poundmaker went to Little Pine
and Sweetgrass,
00:17:09.667 --> 00:17:12.750
requesting the warriors
come to his camp.
00:17:12.750 --> 00:17:15.375
He felt that a large number
of worthy men
00:17:15.375 --> 00:17:18.583
would convince Otter
to turn back.
00:17:18.583 --> 00:17:20.458
Otter attacked before dawn.
00:17:20.458 --> 00:17:24.375
He fired into the Cree camp
without negotiating,
00:17:24.375 --> 00:17:27.083
but the warriors
protected the people
00:17:27.083 --> 00:17:29.709
and defeated Otter\'s troops.
00:17:29.709 --> 00:17:30.625
Eventually,
00:17:30.625 --> 00:17:33.667
Big Bear, Poundmaker,
and Wandering Spirit
00:17:33.667 --> 00:17:35.375
turned themselves in
00:17:35.375 --> 00:17:37.875
to ensure safety
for their people.
00:17:37.875 --> 00:17:39.125
Big Bear and Poundmaker
00:17:39.125 --> 00:17:42.208
were sent
to Stony Mountain Prison.
00:17:42.208 --> 00:17:44.375
On November 2, 1885,
00:17:44.375 --> 00:17:47.458
eight warriors,
including Wandering Spirit,
00:17:47.458 --> 00:17:50.875
were tried
without legal representation,
00:17:50.875 --> 00:17:52.709
and sentenced to death.
00:17:52.709 --> 00:17:57.208
The government brought people
in from nearby reserves
00:17:57.208 --> 00:17:58.959
to witness the hanging.
00:17:58.959 --> 00:17:59.875
Children from
00:17:59.875 --> 00:18:01.792
the Residential School
in Battleford
00:18:01.792 --> 00:18:03.875
were also forced to watch,
00:18:03.875 --> 00:18:05.792
to be taught what happens
00:18:05.792 --> 00:18:10.792
if they stood up
for themselves.
00:18:41.792 --> 00:18:45.125
[Oskiya]: I thought that was
a real guy for a second.
00:18:45.125 --> 00:18:46.709
[Tasha chuckles]
00:18:52.875 --> 00:18:55.417
Handcuffs.
00:18:55.417 --> 00:18:59.166
[Tasha]:
Handcuffs and leg irons.
00:18:59.709 --> 00:19:01.375
So that\'s kind of interesting,
00:19:01.375 --> 00:19:03.458
when they talk about,
00:19:03.458 --> 00:19:05.709
\"The government
attracted settlers
00:19:05.709 --> 00:19:06.709
by offering free land,
00:19:06.709 --> 00:19:11.625
discounted sea passages,
and reduced rail fares,\"
00:19:11.625 --> 00:19:12.375
and then look,
00:19:12.375 --> 00:19:13.750
\"The North-West Mounted Police
00:19:13.750 --> 00:19:14.542
was transformed
00:19:14.542 --> 00:19:18.917
to meet the needs
of the new communities.\"
00:19:19.709 --> 00:19:20.417
Okay, so this one,
00:19:20.417 --> 00:19:22.417
the first one
we\'re gonna look at
00:19:22.417 --> 00:19:25.375
is from, um, North Battleford.
00:19:25.375 --> 00:19:26.667
It\'s this one here,
00:19:26.667 --> 00:19:31.166
Battleford 1887 to 1891.
00:19:36.875 --> 00:19:39.041
So, \"Four Cree squaws
00:19:39.041 --> 00:19:42.375
from the 5th to the 12th,
November.\"
00:19:42.375 --> 00:19:44.083
What do they mean \"squaws\"?
00:19:44.083 --> 00:19:48.208
Well, that\'s what
they used to call... Iskwewak,
00:19:48.208 --> 00:19:50.375
what they used to call women,
00:19:50.375 --> 00:19:53.125
but it, um...
00:19:53.125 --> 00:19:53.625
it was--
00:19:53.625 --> 00:19:56.792
it\'s a derogatory term,
now especially.
00:19:57.875 --> 00:20:01.041
This one\'s from Fort Walsh.
00:20:01.041 --> 00:20:04.041
\"Cold, very cold day,
00:20:04.041 --> 00:20:05.125
windy day...\"
00:20:05.125 --> 00:20:05.875
[gasps]
00:20:05.875 --> 00:20:09.917
\"Council held this afternoon
with Indians.
00:20:09.917 --> 00:20:15.041
Big Bear signed Treaty
at 5:00 p.m.\"
00:20:16.208 --> 00:20:17.959
Hmm.
00:20:20.041 --> 00:20:20.959
I don\'t know.
00:20:20.959 --> 00:20:22.125
It\'s pretty cool.
00:20:22.125 --> 00:20:23.625
Yeah.
00:20:23.625 --> 00:20:26.375
He was pretty reluctant,
actually,
00:20:26.375 --> 00:20:30.375
but his family were starving.
00:20:30.375 --> 00:20:32.542
His grandchild died.
00:20:32.542 --> 00:20:33.083
Aw.
00:20:33.083 --> 00:20:35.291
Mm-hmm, his granddaughter.
00:20:35.291 --> 00:20:36.959
Hmm.
00:20:39.542 --> 00:20:42.709
One of the things
that Mosom always said
00:20:42.709 --> 00:20:43.959
is that we\'re here
00:20:43.959 --> 00:20:46.125
because the people
who came before us
00:20:46.125 --> 00:20:49.250
loved us so much.
00:20:49.250 --> 00:20:50.250
-Hey?
-Mm-hmm.
00:20:50.250 --> 00:20:52.875
That\'s how come
we\'re still here,
00:20:52.875 --> 00:20:56.875
\'cause those who came before
did whatever they could
00:20:56.875 --> 00:20:58.750
so that you guys would be here,
00:20:58.750 --> 00:21:01.041
and that your kids
would be here...
00:21:01.041 --> 00:21:01.625
Mm-hmm.
00:21:01.625 --> 00:21:04.333
...and that\'s been
really hard, hey?
00:21:04.333 --> 00:21:05.667
It\'s been really hard...
00:21:05.667 --> 00:21:06.041
Yeah.
00:21:06.041 --> 00:21:07.750
...our people
have had a hard time,
00:21:07.750 --> 00:21:10.625
and those hard times
aren\'t done yet,
00:21:10.625 --> 00:21:12.375
but...
00:21:13.333 --> 00:21:17.750
we want things
to be better for you guys.
00:21:18.542 --> 00:21:19.709
[chuckles gently]
00:21:19.709 --> 00:21:21.709
I would
wipe your tears, but...
00:21:21.709 --> 00:21:23.208
I know, right?
00:21:23.208 --> 00:21:23.709
It\'s okay.
00:21:23.709 --> 00:21:25.625
It\'s the thought that counts.
00:21:25.625 --> 00:21:27.208
[chuckles gently]
00:21:31.375 --> 00:21:33.375
[Debbie Baptiste]:
The night it happened,
00:21:33.375 --> 00:21:34.792
we had dinner, we--
00:21:34.792 --> 00:21:36.709
he didn\'t show up.
00:21:36.709 --> 00:21:40.041
I put his food
in the microwave.
00:21:40.041 --> 00:21:41.959
When I looked out the window,
00:21:41.959 --> 00:21:44.583
and I saw
a big line of cars coming,
00:21:44.583 --> 00:21:48.333
and I looked out there,
and I said--
00:21:48.333 --> 00:21:49.542
I told the boys, I said,
00:21:49.542 --> 00:21:52.875
\"Look, there\'s
something going on.
00:21:52.875 --> 00:21:55.834
Look at
all these vehicles coming.\"
00:21:56.041 --> 00:22:00.875
Next thing you know,
we were surrounded by cops.
00:22:00.875 --> 00:22:03.709
They drew their guns,
00:22:03.709 --> 00:22:06.750
surrounded the trailer,
00:22:06.750 --> 00:22:10.959
and I asked them,
\"What\'s going on?\"
00:22:10.959 --> 00:22:13.458
and they said,
\"Are you Debbie Baptiste?\"
00:22:13.458 --> 00:22:14.041
and I said, \"Yes,\"
00:22:14.041 --> 00:22:16.542
and they said,
\"What\'s Colten Boushie to you?\"
00:22:16.542 --> 00:22:18.291
and I said, \"My son,\"
00:22:18.291 --> 00:22:20.875
and they said
\"Your son\'s deceased.\"
00:22:20.875 --> 00:22:23.083
I went and woke up
my brother, Jace,
00:22:23.083 --> 00:22:24.208
and when I did that,
00:22:24.208 --> 00:22:25.125
that\'s when all the cops...
00:22:25.125 --> 00:22:27.917
when I turned around
and ran to the back room
00:22:27.917 --> 00:22:28.709
to tell my older brother
00:22:28.709 --> 00:22:31.709
that they\'re saying
our little brother is dead,
00:22:31.709 --> 00:22:33.625
they all swarmed the house.
00:22:33.625 --> 00:22:34.208
They came inside,
00:22:34.208 --> 00:22:36.583
went room to room,
closet to closet.
00:22:36.583 --> 00:22:39.750
And I started screaming
and I was holding my hands,
00:22:39.750 --> 00:22:40.625
and he held me back,
00:22:40.625 --> 00:22:46.291
put my hands, and he said,
\"Get yourself together...\"
00:22:46.291 --> 00:22:48.750
and then
while he was shaking me
00:22:48.750 --> 00:22:49.750
and telling me that,
00:22:49.750 --> 00:22:51.458
he was smelling my breath,
00:22:51.458 --> 00:22:55.375
and I... and I was, like,
\"What did I do?
00:22:55.375 --> 00:22:58.792
Why are you guys
doing this to me?
00:22:58.792 --> 00:23:00.709
What did I do?\"
00:23:00.709 --> 00:23:01.250
but sitting home,
00:23:01.250 --> 00:23:02.875
waiting for my son
to come home,
00:23:02.875 --> 00:23:06.375
and his dinner
was in the microwave.
00:23:08.709 --> 00:23:10.417
[William Boushie]:
Wrong place, wrong time.
00:23:10.417 --> 00:23:12.750
Sleeping in the back seat
of a car,
00:23:12.750 --> 00:23:15.583
and he had to wake up to that,
00:23:15.583 --> 00:23:17.250
to his window
getting smashed out,
00:23:17.250 --> 00:23:18.917
to the women freaking out,
00:23:18.917 --> 00:23:21.375
and the boys
running from gunshots.
00:23:21.375 --> 00:23:23.208
[sniffs back tears]
00:23:23.333 --> 00:23:25.792
I would have did
the same thing that he did.
00:23:25.792 --> 00:23:27.875
I would have
jumped in the driver\'s seat
00:23:27.875 --> 00:23:31.041
and tried to get those women
out of there.
00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:40.542
[Tasha, narrating]:
Thousands of children
00:23:40.542 --> 00:23:41.291
in Treaty Six
00:23:41.291 --> 00:23:43.792
were forced to attend
residential schools.
00:23:43.792 --> 00:23:46.375
These are the bones
of the residential school
00:23:46.375 --> 00:23:48.458
near Battleford.
00:23:49.125 --> 00:23:54.458
Many children from Red Pheasant
and other reserves attended.
00:23:54.458 --> 00:23:57.500
Some never made it home.
00:24:04.250 --> 00:24:07.458
People are starting to learn
about these schools
00:24:07.458 --> 00:24:09.709
and their terrible legacy,
00:24:09.709 --> 00:24:10.750
but they don\'t know
00:24:10.750 --> 00:24:11.375
about the other ways
00:24:11.375 --> 00:24:14.875
the Canadian government
has oppressed us.
00:24:14.875 --> 00:24:16.542
The rights
outlined in our Treaties
00:24:16.542 --> 00:24:18.041
were ignored and overshadowed
00:24:18.041 --> 00:24:22.709
through the Canadian
ngovernment\'s policies and laws.
00:24:22.709 --> 00:24:23.667
The Indian Act took away
00:24:23.667 --> 00:24:25.667
our traditional
governance structure
00:24:25.667 --> 00:24:29.208
and imposed a chief
and council system.
00:24:29.208 --> 00:24:31.875
The Indian Act
criminalized our ceremonies,
00:24:31.875 --> 00:24:36.041
which was a way
of criminalizing who we are.
00:24:36.041 --> 00:24:39.250
Because of what happened
in 1885,
00:24:39.250 --> 00:24:41.291
the government
introduced a policy
00:24:41.291 --> 00:24:43.417
called the Pass System.
00:24:43.417 --> 00:24:43.959
This meant
00:24:43.959 --> 00:24:46.125
that our ancestors were
confined to their reserves
00:24:46.125 --> 00:24:50.709
unless they had permission
from the Indian Agent.
00:24:51.500 --> 00:24:54.208
When our people began
to pursue land claims
00:24:54.208 --> 00:24:56.959
and organize against
our own oppression,
00:24:56.959 --> 00:25:00.041
the government added
a section to the Indian Act
00:25:00.041 --> 00:25:03.709
that stopped us
from hiring lawyers.
00:25:03.709 --> 00:25:07.291
Soon, we were outlawed
from gathering in groups
00:25:07.291 --> 00:25:08.625
of any kind.
00:25:08.625 --> 00:25:16.542
The RCMP enforced it all,
arresting anyone who resisted.
00:25:25.542 --> 00:25:29.709
[Albert Angus]: This house
is where I grew up,
00:25:29.709 --> 00:25:31.375
and it\'s, uh,
00:25:31.375 --> 00:25:35.750
it was built around 1920,
when we were...
00:25:35.750 --> 00:25:38.375
When our land
got sold in Delmas,
00:25:38.375 --> 00:25:40.208
we were moved here
in Thunderchild...
00:25:40.208 --> 00:25:41.709
[Tasha, narrating]:
My birth dad
00:25:41.709 --> 00:25:43.041
is married to Colten\'s aunt
00:25:43.041 --> 00:25:45.041
and lives on Red Pheasant.
00:25:45.041 --> 00:25:47.875
He is originally from
Thunderchild First Nation,
00:25:47.875 --> 00:25:52.917
and was one of the first
Cree lawyers in Saskatchewan.
00:25:52.917 --> 00:25:53.792
[Quannah]: Mosum.
00:25:53.792 --> 00:25:54.375
[Albert]: Yeah?
00:25:54.375 --> 00:25:58.375
[Quannah]: Is there a Cree word
for \"justice\"?
00:25:58.375 --> 00:26:02.458
Justice is an idea,
00:26:02.458 --> 00:26:03.041
or a concept,
00:26:03.041 --> 00:26:07.792
where everybody needs
to be fair with each other,
00:26:07.792 --> 00:26:11.709
and, and it\'s really
strongly related
00:26:11.709 --> 00:26:13.375
to the word \"respect.\"
00:26:13.375 --> 00:26:17.625
So, all the Cree words
are intermingled
00:26:17.625 --> 00:26:19.709
into the idea of--
00:26:19.709 --> 00:26:21.917
of respecting each other,
00:26:21.917 --> 00:26:24.417
and to be fair with each other.
00:26:24.417 --> 00:26:28.458
When a government
is not fair with the subjects,
00:26:28.458 --> 00:26:32.375
or when two parties
of an agreement,
00:26:32.375 --> 00:26:32.875
like Treaties,
00:26:32.875 --> 00:26:37.041
are not living up to
what they agreed to,
00:26:37.041 --> 00:26:37.709
that\'s not fair,
00:26:37.709 --> 00:26:41.208
so then you don\'t see
justice, right?
00:26:41.208 --> 00:26:44.959
[speaking Cree]
00:26:47.291 --> 00:26:49.458
You\'re not really
giving it up,
00:26:49.458 --> 00:26:51.875
and people need
to understand that.
00:26:51.875 --> 00:26:53.041
Even, even the fact
00:26:53.041 --> 00:26:56.458
that people who don\'t want
to understand that,
00:26:56.458 --> 00:26:58.625
that\'s an injustice for us.
00:26:58.625 --> 00:27:01.041
They have to understand it.
00:27:02.834 --> 00:27:05.041
[Sheldon Wuttunee]:
I want to certainly take time
00:27:05.041 --> 00:27:07.542
to thank the Creator
for this beautiful evening,
00:27:07.542 --> 00:27:10.041
to have us come together here
00:27:10.041 --> 00:27:13.083
in memory
of late Colten Boushie...
00:27:13.083 --> 00:27:16.041
[Jade Tootoosis]: It\'s been
a very challenging three weeks
00:27:16.041 --> 00:27:16.875
for my family and I,
00:27:16.875 --> 00:27:21.875
and we\'ve been getting together
quite a bit, a lot lately,
00:27:21.875 --> 00:27:23.208
in supporting one another
00:27:23.208 --> 00:27:25.625
and staying strong
the best we can,
00:27:25.625 --> 00:27:26.291
and we realize that
00:27:26.291 --> 00:27:29.458
what\'s happened to our--
my brother, Colten,
00:27:29.458 --> 00:27:30.250
not only affects us,
00:27:30.250 --> 00:27:32.709
but it has affected
on many people
00:27:32.709 --> 00:27:36.875
across Turtle Island
and around the globe.
00:27:45.375 --> 00:27:49.500
[singer performing
\"Dancing in the Sky\"]
00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:56.208
♪ ...And here on earth
everything\'s different ♪
00:27:56.208 --> 00:28:01.542
♪ There\'s an emptiness ♪
00:28:01.542 --> 00:28:03.875
♪ Oh-oh, I... ♪
00:28:03.875 --> 00:28:11.208
♪ I hope you\'re dancing
in the sky ♪
00:28:11.208 --> 00:28:17.750
♪ I hope you\'re singing
in the angel\'s choir... ♪
00:28:17.750 --> 00:28:20.083
[applauding]
00:28:20.083 --> 00:28:22.959
[traditional drummers chanting]
00:28:22.959 --> 00:28:25.542
[♪♪♪]
00:28:45.875 --> 00:28:48.625
[Jade]: You gotta sew
all your ribbons down.
00:28:48.625 --> 00:28:52.208
You don\'t want to be
lookin\' stylin\',
00:28:52.208 --> 00:28:55.375
and one of your ribbons
be falling off.
00:28:55.375 --> 00:28:57.917
[Jade laughs]
00:28:59.208 --> 00:28:59.917
There you go.
00:28:59.917 --> 00:29:02.041
Now you start to feel
more comfortable,
00:29:02.041 --> 00:29:04.125
you can push down
a little bit more,
00:29:04.125 --> 00:29:06.208
just a little bit faster...
00:29:06.208 --> 00:29:07.375
[Jade]: I remember when, uh,
00:29:07.375 --> 00:29:11.125
the reporters came out
to the wake in Red Pheasant.
00:29:11.125 --> 00:29:13.625
They wanted to know
more about him.
00:29:13.625 --> 00:29:16.583
\"Who was he,\" you know,
\"as a brother?\"
00:29:16.583 --> 00:29:17.542
\"Who was he to you?
00:29:17.542 --> 00:29:19.875
What are good stories
you could share about him?\"
00:29:19.875 --> 00:29:23.125
And I was sitting there
with my Kokum, Verna,
00:29:23.125 --> 00:29:25.792
and I usually don\'t talk
in front of my Kokum.
00:29:25.792 --> 00:29:30.291
I usually am either listening
to her share stories
00:29:30.291 --> 00:29:32.041
or tell me things.
00:29:32.041 --> 00:29:35.041
So after that was done, um...
00:29:35.041 --> 00:29:36.208
and the camera went off,
00:29:36.208 --> 00:29:38.709
and he thanked me,
and he walked out,
00:29:38.709 --> 00:29:39.291
my Kokum turned to me,
00:29:39.291 --> 00:29:43.125
and she was like, \"From now on,
you\'re going to talk.\"
00:29:43.125 --> 00:29:47.959
\'Cause she\'d never
heard me speak before,
00:29:47.959 --> 00:29:48.542
and so,
00:29:48.542 --> 00:29:52.125
when Kokum tells you,
you know, to do something,
00:29:52.125 --> 00:29:53.041
you don\'t argue.
00:29:53.041 --> 00:29:54.792
[Tasha]:
Yup, then that\'s what you do.
00:29:54.792 --> 00:29:57.083
[chuckles] Yeah,
that\'s what you do,
00:29:57.083 --> 00:29:59.834
and so, um, I said okay.
00:30:02.792 --> 00:30:05.291
[small crowd murmuring]
00:30:11.709 --> 00:30:15.375
[Jade]: We gotta get
as many as possible, right?
00:30:15.375 --> 00:30:15.709
So...
00:30:15.709 --> 00:30:18.208
Hundreds of voices
are louder than one voice.
00:30:18.208 --> 00:30:19.458
That\'s for sure.
00:30:19.458 --> 00:30:19.792
Yeah.
00:30:19.792 --> 00:30:22.834
[Tasha, narrating]: The family
nis losing trust in the process,
00:30:22.834 --> 00:30:25.041
nso they hire their own lawyers.
00:30:25.041 --> 00:30:26.375
They\'re also worried
00:30:26.375 --> 00:30:28.792
that racism
will affect the trial,
00:30:28.792 --> 00:30:29.709
so they launch a petition
00:30:29.709 --> 00:30:31.000
to ask for an out-of-province
prosecutor.
00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:34.125
[Jade]: I know this is a really
difficult day for the family,
00:30:34.125 --> 00:30:37.625
it\'s really hard that he\'s not
here with us in person,
00:30:37.625 --> 00:30:42.291
but to gather as a family
and as a community that, um...
00:30:42.291 --> 00:30:44.208
we still do something
for the day,
00:30:44.208 --> 00:30:45.875
\'cause if he was here with us,
00:30:45.875 --> 00:30:47.625
we would have
did something today.
00:30:47.625 --> 00:30:50.375
So, um, if someone
would want to share a...
00:30:50.375 --> 00:30:53.625
share the story of Coco
being born today,
00:30:53.625 --> 00:30:56.750
if anybody would feel
comfortable with sharing that?
00:30:56.750 --> 00:30:58.709
...And everyone was
in our costumes,
00:30:58.709 --> 00:31:00.291
and they were taking pictures,
00:31:00.291 --> 00:31:02.417
and my mom was a green witch,
00:31:02.417 --> 00:31:04.041
and a pregnant green witch.
00:31:04.041 --> 00:31:05.959
[laughing]
A pregnant witch...
00:31:05.959 --> 00:31:08.291
I remember we were just
laughing at her
00:31:08.291 --> 00:31:09.417
because she looked funny,
00:31:09.417 --> 00:31:11.959
and her stomach
was really big, and...
00:31:11.959 --> 00:31:12.458
The next day,
00:31:12.458 --> 00:31:14.875
we all went trick-or-treating
and everything,
00:31:14.875 --> 00:31:17.542
and we come home, and...
00:31:17.542 --> 00:31:21.583
came the good news
that Colten was born.
00:31:22.458 --> 00:31:22.959
Ever since then,
00:31:22.959 --> 00:31:26.375
we\'ve always had
a big celebration like this.
00:31:26.375 --> 00:31:28.959
All of us kids
would get dressed up,
00:31:28.959 --> 00:31:32.959
and go out trick-or-treating.
00:31:33.125 --> 00:31:35.750
[Jade]: Yeah, and that\'s
how Colten was born.
00:31:35.750 --> 00:31:37.458
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
00:31:37.458 --> 00:31:40.959
Yeah, he came out
on Halloween.
00:31:40.959 --> 00:31:43.041
Mm-hmm.
00:31:44.500 --> 00:31:45.375
[sniffs]
00:31:45.375 --> 00:31:49.250
I remember
when she brought him home.
00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:52.709
He was just a tiny baby.
00:31:52.709 --> 00:31:55.208
I was so happy.
00:31:55.208 --> 00:31:56.166
A brown baby.
00:31:56.166 --> 00:31:59.208
Yeah, the darkest one
out of all of us.
00:31:59.208 --> 00:32:00.834
[chuckling]
00:32:00.834 --> 00:32:02.750
[Debbie]: We were cruising
down the road,
00:32:02.750 --> 00:32:06.959
and he took a selfie of us,
00:32:06.959 --> 00:32:09.625
but I carry this with me
everywhere.
00:32:09.625 --> 00:32:12.875
There\'s all these certificates
from way back.
00:32:12.875 --> 00:32:16.542
He almost went
to Washington, DC,
00:32:16.542 --> 00:32:21.583
and he\'s listed as one of
the top contenders there,
00:32:21.583 --> 00:32:23.041
and he didn\'t make it,
00:32:23.041 --> 00:32:26.375
but then the year after that,
he tried again.
00:32:26.375 --> 00:32:31.542
When he was a little boy,
he was so smart.
00:32:31.542 --> 00:32:34.250
He had Harry Potter glasses,
00:32:34.250 --> 00:32:37.041
and he was really into science,
00:32:37.041 --> 00:32:40.583
and then if somebody was
speaking about, you know,
00:32:40.583 --> 00:32:41.250
something...
00:32:41.250 --> 00:32:43.709
and he would correct them,
00:32:43.709 --> 00:32:44.291
and he would say...
00:32:44.291 --> 00:32:47.834
you know, he\'d have his little
Harry Potter glasses,
00:32:47.834 --> 00:32:49.375
and he\'d push them up,
00:32:49.375 --> 00:32:49.875
and he\'d say,
00:32:49.875 --> 00:32:52.875
\"Scientifically,
I don\'t think that\'s right.\"
00:32:52.875 --> 00:32:53.834
and then he\'d said--
00:32:53.834 --> 00:32:56.041
when he was a little guy
like that, too,
00:32:56.041 --> 00:32:58.000
he said, \"The world
would get along
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.542
if everybody would just
get a good book
00:33:00.542 --> 00:33:02.792
and go sit under a tree.\"
00:33:17.291 --> 00:33:19.625
[Tasha]: The family\'s petition
is ignored,
00:33:19.625 --> 00:33:23.917
and the province stays
with their own prosecutor.
00:33:25.959 --> 00:33:26.792
During the jury selection,
00:33:26.792 --> 00:33:30.000
both the prosecution
and Stanley\'s defense team
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.667
have 14 peremptory challenges.
00:33:32.667 --> 00:33:37.583
They can veto potential jurors
without giving any reason why.
00:33:37.583 --> 00:33:41.959
Despite the racism
ndisplayed since Colten\'s death,
00:33:41.959 --> 00:33:43.083
no one is asked
00:33:43.083 --> 00:33:47.709
if they have bias
against Indigenous people.
00:33:56.250 --> 00:33:56.959
So they said
00:33:56.959 --> 00:34:02.041
they picked out seven women
and five men?
00:34:02.041 --> 00:34:03.959
Okay.
00:34:05.583 --> 00:34:08.208
Is there any, um, native people?
00:34:11.041 --> 00:34:13.291
In that jury?
00:34:14.375 --> 00:34:16.125
No?
00:34:18.041 --> 00:34:19.250
Huh.
00:34:22.875 --> 00:34:26.125
[kisses, baby giggles]
00:34:26.125 --> 00:34:27.041
Oh, you didn\'t look.
00:34:27.041 --> 00:34:29.709
There\'s all your toys
over there.
00:34:29.709 --> 00:34:32.291
Yeah, remember all your toys?
00:34:32.291 --> 00:34:34.500
Yup.
00:34:35.625 --> 00:34:37.208
[baby murmurs]
00:34:38.375 --> 00:34:39.083
The jury selection,
00:34:39.083 --> 00:34:41.417
it was, like,
they just pull random numbers.
00:34:41.417 --> 00:34:43.959
They all, all the jurors
have different numbers,
00:34:43.959 --> 00:34:47.417
and they just randomly pulled,
like bingo balls.
00:34:47.417 --> 00:34:48.792
As people started coming in,
00:34:48.792 --> 00:34:49.458
it was mostly, like,
00:34:49.458 --> 00:34:51.875
non-Indigenous,
like, white people
00:34:51.875 --> 00:34:52.792
coming through the doors,
00:34:52.792 --> 00:34:55.625
and all of a sudden,
this really tall native dude,
00:34:55.625 --> 00:34:59.000
long hair, glasses, walked in,
00:34:59.000 --> 00:34:59.709
and he looked around,
00:34:59.709 --> 00:35:01.125
and I thought,
\"Cool, like, another--
00:35:01.125 --> 00:35:02.667
maybe, you know,
another Indigenous person,\"
00:35:02.667 --> 00:35:05.083
and he walked up to
that jury table, like,
00:35:05.083 --> 00:35:06.583
\'cause they have to check in,
00:35:06.583 --> 00:35:08.250
and he walked up to check in,
00:35:08.250 --> 00:35:10.709
and I looked at Lyle,
I was like,
00:35:10.709 --> 00:35:11.875
\"I\'m gonna start to cry,\"
00:35:11.875 --> 00:35:14.375
\'cause it, you know, like,
it gave me hope
00:35:14.375 --> 00:35:18.458
that Indigenous people
were potential jury members,
00:35:18.458 --> 00:35:23.083
and immediately,
Spencer\'s, like, \"challenge,\"
00:35:23.083 --> 00:35:26.250
so he sat down.
00:35:26.834 --> 00:35:29.208
There was literally
a handful of them,
00:35:29.208 --> 00:35:33.625
and none of them got through.
00:35:34.208 --> 00:35:35.166
We just got to pray
00:35:35.166 --> 00:35:37.291
that they go into it
with an open mind,
00:35:37.291 --> 00:35:40.750
and see the evidence
and the truth for themselves.
00:35:40.750 --> 00:35:41.375
Yeah.
00:35:41.375 --> 00:35:44.083
[Debbie]: What I always
kind of wonder is...
00:35:44.083 --> 00:35:44.583
[clears throat]
00:35:44.583 --> 00:35:47.750
...he could have shot him
in the arm, in the leg.
00:35:47.750 --> 00:35:52.291
Why directly back of the head,
execution style?
00:35:52.291 --> 00:35:56.500
So, you can\'t say
it was an accident.
00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:58.083
Stanley made a choice.
00:35:58.083 --> 00:36:00.083
He decided to run after a gun
00:36:00.083 --> 00:36:03.458
instead of
running after a phone.
00:36:25.375 --> 00:36:27.083
So...
00:36:27.542 --> 00:36:29.542
been waiting and waiting,
00:36:29.542 --> 00:36:32.792
so it\'s finally here.
00:36:34.625 --> 00:36:36.834
No more wondering.
00:36:36.834 --> 00:36:40.041
No more wondering,
sitting up at night,
00:36:40.041 --> 00:36:44.458
wondering why this guy
gets to roam around free
00:36:44.458 --> 00:36:47.041
while the rest of us
suffer and cry,
00:36:47.041 --> 00:36:47.542
and listen,
00:36:47.542 --> 00:36:49.625
and it\'s always
gonna be like this.
00:36:49.625 --> 00:36:52.583
This is never gonna go away.
00:37:22.166 --> 00:37:25.333
The trial will last two weeks.
00:37:25.333 --> 00:37:29.166
The temperature
has dropped to the minus 30s.
00:37:29.166 --> 00:37:31.208
nCamera crews bundle up outside,
00:37:31.208 --> 00:37:33.709
while reporters crowd
into the media room
00:37:33.709 --> 00:37:36.542
or the courtroom itself.
00:37:36.542 --> 00:37:40.792
Every day, the story
will make headline news.
00:37:41.625 --> 00:37:43.208
Throughout the trial,
00:37:43.208 --> 00:37:45.291
the family will feel
the pressure
00:37:45.291 --> 00:37:47.709
of the media spotlight.
00:37:51.709 --> 00:37:53.875
[camera shutters clicking]
00:37:53.875 --> 00:37:54.917
[reporter]:
Before you go inside,
00:37:54.917 --> 00:37:57.834
I was wondering if you had
any sort of comment
00:37:57.834 --> 00:37:59.041
to make to the media,
00:37:59.041 --> 00:38:01.083
or anything
in regards to the trial
00:38:01.083 --> 00:38:02.083
as it gets underway today?
00:38:02.083 --> 00:38:06.875
Um, just justice for my son,
Colten Boushie.
00:38:06.875 --> 00:38:08.458
Excuse me.
00:38:08.458 --> 00:38:13.375
[wind gusting]
00:38:33.875 --> 00:38:37.125
The Battleford courtroom
is small.
00:38:37.125 --> 00:38:39.875
Gerald Stanley\'s family
sits on one side,
00:38:39.875 --> 00:38:42.000
and Colten\'s family
sits on the other.
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.208
There are two seats
between them,
00:38:45.208 --> 00:38:46.208
reserved for media
00:38:46.208 --> 00:38:48.375
to split the two families up.
00:38:48.375 --> 00:38:50.041
The presiding judge
00:38:50.041 --> 00:38:52.625
is Saskatchewan\'s
Court of Queen\'s Bench
00:38:52.625 --> 00:38:54.583
Chief Justice.
00:38:54.583 --> 00:38:56.458
It\'s important to remember
00:38:56.458 --> 00:39:01.083
that the trial is
the Crown vs. Stanley.
00:39:01.083 --> 00:39:02.875
Colten\'s family
and their lawyers
00:39:02.875 --> 00:39:07.500
have no standing or say
in what happens inside.
00:39:08.041 --> 00:39:12.166
The Crown prosecutors
barely communicate with them.
00:39:12.166 --> 00:39:15.417
Stanley\'s defence team
includes Scott Spencer
00:39:15.417 --> 00:39:18.000
and several junior lawyers.
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.417
A few days earlier,
00:39:19.417 --> 00:39:20.583
Spencer issued a statement
00:39:20.583 --> 00:39:24.625
saying the trial
is not a referendum on race.
00:39:24.625 --> 00:39:26.750
The word \"racism\"
will never be mentioned
00:39:26.750 --> 00:39:27.583
throughout the proceedings.
00:39:27.583 --> 00:39:29.083
[reporter]: I know we are early,
00:39:29.083 --> 00:39:31.041
but what are
your early thoughts,
00:39:31.041 --> 00:39:32.458
or if you feel comfortable.
00:39:32.458 --> 00:39:33.041
Well, bottom line,
00:39:33.041 --> 00:39:35.000
there\'s no good day
from something like this.
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:37.709
It\'s, you know,
it\'s a terrible situation to...
00:39:37.709 --> 00:39:38.917
to have to deal with,
00:39:38.917 --> 00:39:40.875
but it\'s good to get
the evidence
00:39:40.875 --> 00:39:41.458
starting to flow here.
00:39:41.458 --> 00:39:44.542
So, you know, to that extent,
you know, that\'s good,
00:39:44.542 --> 00:39:46.291
but otherwise, we\'re--
00:39:46.291 --> 00:39:47.542
we\'re really early on, so...
00:39:47.542 --> 00:39:48.917
[reporter]:
Thank you for your time.
00:39:48.917 --> 00:39:51.041
Did you want to say anything,
Mr. Stanley?
00:39:51.041 --> 00:39:52.917
Mr. Stanley,
do you have any remarks?
00:39:52.917 --> 00:39:56.250
How do you think
it went today?
00:40:01.709 --> 00:40:05.125
Bill Burge
is the lead prosecutor.
00:40:05.125 --> 00:40:08.709
He begins by calling members
of the RCMP.
00:40:08.709 --> 00:40:11.125
We learn that
nthe search warrant was delayed,
00:40:11.125 --> 00:40:13.208
and that the vehicle
where Colten was killed
00:40:13.208 --> 00:40:16.709
was left uncovered
for over 24 hours.
00:40:16.709 --> 00:40:18.625
During this time,
00:40:18.625 --> 00:40:19.709
rain fell on the scene,
00:40:19.709 --> 00:40:23.041
washing away
much of the evidence.
00:40:23.041 --> 00:40:25.375
The blood spatter expert
testifies
00:40:25.375 --> 00:40:28.083
that she wasn\'t actually
at the scene.
00:40:28.083 --> 00:40:29.083
She based her conclusions
00:40:29.083 --> 00:40:31.917
on photos taken
by investigators.
00:40:31.917 --> 00:40:35.208
Burge calls up
the three Indigenous witnesses
00:40:35.208 --> 00:40:36.792
who were there that day.
00:40:36.792 --> 00:40:37.375
No one explains
00:40:37.375 --> 00:40:41.208
how the witnesses spent
nover 18 hours in police custody
00:40:41.208 --> 00:40:43.375
nbefore giving their statements.
00:40:43.375 --> 00:40:46.166
No one mentions
how the RCMP handcuffed
00:40:46.166 --> 00:40:49.125
and placed the young woman
in the back of the car,
00:40:49.125 --> 00:40:51.792
and took her along
on a high-speed chase.
00:40:51.792 --> 00:40:56.542
Some of her testimony differs
from the forensic evidence.
00:40:56.542 --> 00:41:00.333
Spencer accuses her
of not telling the truth.
00:41:00.333 --> 00:41:01.375
No one accounts for
00:41:01.375 --> 00:41:03.125
how the trauma she experienced
00:41:03.125 --> 00:41:05.375
may be affecting her.
00:41:05.375 --> 00:41:06.125
Despite her being
00:41:06.125 --> 00:41:08.208
a central witness
to Colten\'s death,
00:41:08.208 --> 00:41:10.375
the defence
damages her credibility.
00:41:10.375 --> 00:41:13.500
Later, the prosecutor
tells the jury
00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.709
he will not rely on
her testimony.
00:41:16.709 --> 00:41:19.166
The two young men
heard gunshots
00:41:19.166 --> 00:41:21.083
as they were running
from the scene.
00:41:21.083 --> 00:41:22.458
They did not witness
the shooting.
00:41:22.458 --> 00:41:26.625
Spencer cross-examines them
at length on their activities
00:41:26.625 --> 00:41:29.667
prior to entering
the Stanley Farm.
00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:31.208
Some observers feel
00:41:31.208 --> 00:41:35.375
like the witnesses
are the ones on trial.
00:41:35.375 --> 00:41:38.375
Spencer shows photos
of Colten\'s body
00:41:38.375 --> 00:41:39.875
to two of the witnesses,
00:41:39.875 --> 00:41:41.959
which they find traumatizing.
00:41:41.959 --> 00:41:45.792
It also goes against
Indigenous protocols.
00:41:45.792 --> 00:41:46.792
We know that there\'s been--
00:41:46.792 --> 00:41:51.750
been many issues raised
in terms of, of stealing, theft,
00:41:51.750 --> 00:41:54.083
racism, a murder,
00:41:54.083 --> 00:41:54.750
all of these issues
00:41:54.750 --> 00:41:56.750
that are playing on
a lot of emotions,
00:41:56.750 --> 00:42:00.041
um, but, you know,
I guess moving forward,
00:42:00.041 --> 00:42:01.750
we need to have that confidence
00:42:01.750 --> 00:42:05.208
that the crown prosecutors
are gonna be asking
00:42:05.208 --> 00:42:06.542
the proper questions
00:42:06.542 --> 00:42:07.750
and doing their due diligence
00:42:07.750 --> 00:42:10.291
with all the witnesses
that are taking the stand.
00:42:10.291 --> 00:42:12.375
I don\'t know
if we\'ve felt that today,
00:42:12.375 --> 00:42:14.834
but we\'re hoping that
in the coming days that
00:42:14.834 --> 00:42:17.875
that\'s what we\'re gonna find
that transpires.
00:42:18.709 --> 00:42:20.917
[Eleanore]: But it seemed like
it was deliberate
00:42:20.917 --> 00:42:22.875
that he showed him
that photograph
00:42:22.875 --> 00:42:24.792
with Colten\'s body in it
00:42:24.792 --> 00:42:26.875
to get a reaction.
00:42:26.875 --> 00:42:30.375
Well, it didn\'t help
their case at all.
00:42:30.375 --> 00:42:35.458
[Chris]: The defence strategy
is that this was an accident,
00:42:35.458 --> 00:42:37.000
and so, my question is,
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.041
okay, well, if it
accidentally went off,
00:42:39.041 --> 00:42:42.333
then it\'s gonna have to be
the defence\'s theory
00:42:42.333 --> 00:42:44.083
that it was purely
a coincidence,
00:42:44.083 --> 00:42:46.291
that out of
all the billions of places
00:42:46.291 --> 00:42:47.542
that bullet could have gone,
00:42:47.542 --> 00:42:51.125
it entered behind
Colten\'s left ear...
00:42:51.125 --> 00:42:51.542
Mm-hmm.
00:42:51.542 --> 00:42:55.000
...and that, to me,
seems a lot harder to believe
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.583
than a person
acting in self-defence.
00:42:59.583 --> 00:43:03.291
Stanley\'s lawyers are eager
to build the argument
00:43:03.291 --> 00:43:05.041
that this was an accident.
00:43:05.041 --> 00:43:08.333
They say Stanley
experienced a hangfire,
00:43:08.333 --> 00:43:10.667
a delay between
pulling the trigger
00:43:10.667 --> 00:43:13.041
and the bullet firing.
00:43:13.041 --> 00:43:14.750
It\'s a rare malfunction,
00:43:14.750 --> 00:43:18.542
usually caused by
defective ammunition.
00:43:18.542 --> 00:43:20.458
An RCMP gun expert testifies
00:43:20.458 --> 00:43:24.583
that hangfires can only last
a maximum of half a second.
00:43:24.583 --> 00:43:26.208
For what
the defence is arguing,
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nit would have to be much longer
00:43:27.792 --> 00:43:29.917
between when Stanley
pulled the trigger
00:43:29.917 --> 00:43:30.875
for the third time
00:43:30.875 --> 00:43:33.417
to when he was next to Colten.
00:43:33.417 --> 00:43:35.041
Spencer attempts to bring in
00:43:35.041 --> 00:43:37.542
anonymous posts
from online forums
00:43:37.542 --> 00:43:40.083
that claim
longer hangfires exist,
00:43:40.083 --> 00:43:43.208
but he\'s turned down
by the judge.
00:43:43.208 --> 00:43:46.125
Spencer then brings in
non-expert witnesses
00:43:46.125 --> 00:43:48.625
who claim to have had
longer hangfires.
00:43:48.625 --> 00:43:53.542
In one case, a man testifies
to an experience 40 years ago
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while hunting gophers.
00:43:55.291 --> 00:43:56.542
In both cases,
00:43:56.542 --> 00:43:59.083
they were using
different guns and ammunition
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than Stanley used.
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Their testimony seems to be
given the same weight
00:44:04.125 --> 00:44:06.875
as the actual gun experts.
00:44:06.875 --> 00:44:08.125
Spencer builds a case
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that it\'s impossible to know
why the gun went off.
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The media will call this
a \"magic gun defence.\"
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Spencer also has to explain
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why the gun was pointed
at Colten\'s head.
00:44:21.792 --> 00:44:25.709
He invites Stanley
to take the stand.
00:44:25.709 --> 00:44:29.709
One of Colten\'s supporters
nis holding up an eagle feather,
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a symbol of truth.
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At the request of the jury,
the judge tells them to stop.
00:44:35.834 --> 00:44:38.291
Stanley testifies
that he removed the clip,
00:44:38.291 --> 00:44:39.166
and that he walked up
00:44:39.166 --> 00:44:41.917
to the driver side
of the vehicle Colten was in,
00:44:41.917 --> 00:44:44.542
and that he tried
to take the keys out
00:44:44.542 --> 00:44:45.542
with his left hand
00:44:45.542 --> 00:44:46.667
that was holding the clip,
00:44:46.667 --> 00:44:49.709
and while still
holding the gun in his right,
00:44:49.709 --> 00:44:52.458
nwhich was behind Colten\'s head.
00:44:52.458 --> 00:44:53.792
That\'s when it went off.
00:44:53.792 --> 00:44:59.875
Stanley is given the gun itself
to demonstrate his actions.
00:44:59.875 --> 00:45:05.834
The family does not know
this is going to happen.
00:45:06.917 --> 00:45:09.875
[Jade]: And to see the man
who held that gun
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and shot him
in the back of the head
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re-enact what he did...
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that was one of the hardest
things that I\'ve ever seen,
00:45:19.583 --> 00:45:22.291
and have to sit there
and endure.
00:45:22.291 --> 00:45:25.792
All we want
is justice for Colten.
00:45:44.917 --> 00:45:45.917
We\'re the grade seven/eight--
00:45:45.917 --> 00:45:48.875
some of the grade seven/eight
class of miyopimatisiwin
00:45:48.875 --> 00:45:54.125
We\'re just here
to show support for the family.
00:45:54.125 --> 00:45:55.583
[Alvin Baptiste]: And right now,
00:45:55.583 --> 00:45:56.959
it\'s pretty hard to predict
00:45:56.959 --> 00:45:58.792
where they\'re gonna go
with this.
00:45:58.792 --> 00:46:00.709
You know, it might turn to--
00:46:00.709 --> 00:46:03.125
they might decide second,
00:46:03.125 --> 00:46:05.208
um, manslaughter,
00:46:05.208 --> 00:46:07.041
acquittal,
00:46:07.041 --> 00:46:07.875
a hung jury.
00:46:07.875 --> 00:46:08.709
[reporter]: Al-Alvin,
00:46:08.709 --> 00:46:11.375
would you be satisfied
with a manslaughter result
00:46:11.375 --> 00:46:13.750
instead of
second-degree murder?
00:46:13.750 --> 00:46:15.875
Uh... I thought about that,
00:46:15.875 --> 00:46:18.792
and I would really, uh...
00:46:18.792 --> 00:46:22.125
you know, I just want
to get this done and over with,
00:46:22.125 --> 00:46:26.250
and it\'s been hanging
over my head, my family\'s head,
00:46:26.250 --> 00:46:27.041
for quite a while,
00:46:27.041 --> 00:46:30.417
and, you know, it\'s time
that my family starts to heal
00:46:30.417 --> 00:46:31.208
and move on,
00:46:31.208 --> 00:46:36.542
and, you know, as long as
Gerald Stanley is charged,
00:46:36.542 --> 00:46:38.750
and be accountable
for his actions
00:46:38.750 --> 00:46:43.417
of taking a... a young
Indigenous man\'s life.
00:46:44.750 --> 00:46:46.000
By now, most observers feel
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.875
that a murder conviction
is unlikely.
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Manslaughter includes
the careless use of a firearm,
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so this was the verdict
people are now expecting.
00:46:58.542 --> 00:46:59.625
Throughout the trial,
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I\'ve been thinking
about the power of words
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and the effect they have.
00:47:04.375 --> 00:47:06.792
Spencer used words
like \"terror,\"
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\"home invasion\"
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and \"wreaking havoc.\"
00:47:09.542 --> 00:47:12.208
He emphasized
several times to the jury
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that the young people
were wearing hoodies.
00:47:17.458 --> 00:47:18.208
Under the law,
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Spencer couldn\'t claim
Stanley acted in self-defence,
00:47:21.417 --> 00:47:27.208
but told the jury, \"There is
a self-defence factor.\"
00:47:27.375 --> 00:47:31.375
He also told the jury
Stanley is hard-working,
00:47:31.375 --> 00:47:32.041
perhaps alluding to
00:47:32.041 --> 00:47:35.542
the stereotype
of Indigenous people as lazy.
00:47:40.709 --> 00:47:45.333
He admitted he was creating
a narrative for the jury.
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This is a narrative
00:47:46.208 --> 00:47:51.917
that resonates in this area
of Saskatchewan.
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The judge tells the jury
they have three choices,
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to find Stanley guilty
of 2nd-degree murder,
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manslaughter,
00:48:14.625 --> 00:48:17.792
or not guilty.
00:48:26.041 --> 00:48:27.542
The family
and their supporters
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have nothing to do but wait.
00:48:34.458 --> 00:48:36.709
[Alvin]:
How the angle of that bullet
00:48:36.709 --> 00:48:38.875
went through my nephew,
00:48:38.875 --> 00:48:40.166
it\'s almost upwards.
00:48:40.166 --> 00:48:42.083
[Doug]: He had to be like this.
00:48:42.083 --> 00:48:43.709
[Alvin]: Yeah, like this, and...
00:48:43.709 --> 00:48:44.375
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:48:44.375 --> 00:48:47.208
[Doug]: We did that
this morning.
00:48:47.208 --> 00:48:48.625
We went outside
with some reporters,
00:48:48.625 --> 00:48:51.542
and there was a Ford Escape
sitting out there,
00:48:51.542 --> 00:48:52.917
I think it was Global\'s,
00:48:52.917 --> 00:48:54.750
about the same kind
as you got--
00:48:54.750 --> 00:48:56.542
that was used in this situation,
00:48:56.542 --> 00:48:57.375
and yeah, they tried it.
00:48:57.375 --> 00:49:00.166
You\'d have to reach in
over the steering column
00:49:00.166 --> 00:49:01.458
and the key is in there,
00:49:01.458 --> 00:49:03.208
and then you have to turn it,
00:49:03.208 --> 00:49:04.792
\'cause he had to turn it off,
00:49:04.792 --> 00:49:06.458
and if you\'re
holding something...
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[Alvin]: Yeah.
00:49:06.959 --> 00:49:08.125
...it\'s just about impossible
to do that.
00:49:08.125 --> 00:49:11.375
Because we were trying it,
couldn\'t do it.
00:49:11.792 --> 00:49:12.458
Plus, he had a--
00:49:12.458 --> 00:49:14.417
he had the gun
in his other hand,
00:49:14.417 --> 00:49:16.625
which is an unnatural thing,
you know.
00:49:16.625 --> 00:49:17.667
-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.
00:49:22.875 --> 00:49:26.917
They treated the witnesses
like they were the criminals,
00:49:26.917 --> 00:49:32.041
like, they were the one
that shot Colten themselves,
00:49:32.041 --> 00:49:33.709
when it was Gerald Stanley,
00:49:33.709 --> 00:49:36.750
and yet he was given
all this privilege--
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[Debbie]: Freedom.
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--freedom,
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walk away on bail.
00:49:42.792 --> 00:49:47.583
That\'s... white privilege
right there again.
00:50:07.375 --> 00:50:09.542
[truck idling]
00:50:39.542 --> 00:50:43.000
[RCMP]: Make way for the car.
00:50:43.333 --> 00:50:45.375
[Debbie sobbing]
What was that?
00:50:45.375 --> 00:50:47.250
Hold on, hold on...
00:50:47.250 --> 00:50:48.875
Hold on.
00:50:48.875 --> 00:50:49.959
[crying]
00:50:49.959 --> 00:50:53.125
[cameras snapping]
00:50:54.458 --> 00:50:55.792
Where\'s the vehicle?
00:50:55.792 --> 00:50:58.041
This isn\'t justice!
00:51:04.542 --> 00:51:07.250
The words \"not guilty\"
hang in the air.
00:51:07.250 --> 00:51:11.333
I see a jury member
smile at Stanley.
00:51:11.333 --> 00:51:11.917
The sheriffs jump up
00:51:11.917 --> 00:51:15.208
and rush Stanley and his family
out of the courtroom.
00:51:15.208 --> 00:51:17.709
Most of the jury
jumps to their feet
00:51:17.709 --> 00:51:19.375
and runs after them.
00:51:19.375 --> 00:51:23.875
A couple of them
stay seated, crying.
00:51:23.875 --> 00:51:27.208
It feels like
everything has changed.
00:51:27.208 --> 00:51:29.375
[reporter]: People
in the courtroom were shocked.
00:51:29.375 --> 00:51:30.375
Family members were shouting,
00:51:30.375 --> 00:51:32.750
\"You\'re a murderer,
you\'re a murderer.\"
00:51:32.750 --> 00:51:33.458
People were crying.
00:51:33.458 --> 00:51:35.917
Even Gerald Stanley himself
looked surprised.
00:51:35.917 --> 00:51:38.041
As he stood up,
he turned around,
00:51:38.041 --> 00:51:39.667
his face looked quite--
00:51:39.667 --> 00:51:43.208
quite startled by--
by what had been announced.
00:51:44.250 --> 00:51:47.208
Is that justice
for Colten Boushie?
00:51:47.208 --> 00:51:49.458
Uh, I don\'t know
what society is,
00:51:49.458 --> 00:51:49.917
but, um, I guess
00:51:49.917 --> 00:51:52.875
you could shoot people
in the back of the head
00:51:52.875 --> 00:51:54.250
and get away with it,
00:51:54.250 --> 00:51:57.792
and this ain\'t right,
this ain\'t justice,
00:51:57.792 --> 00:52:00.208
and the law system
failed my family
00:52:00.208 --> 00:52:01.375
in this murder trial.
00:52:01.375 --> 00:52:03.041
Thank you, that\'s all.
00:52:03.041 --> 00:52:05.041
[Jade]: We will fight
for an appeal
00:52:05.041 --> 00:52:07.709
and answers to all the racism
00:52:07.709 --> 00:52:09.875
that my family has experienced
00:52:09.875 --> 00:52:11.834
from the day
that Colten was shot
00:52:11.834 --> 00:52:17.625
until the jury delivered
the verdict of not guilty.
00:52:17.709 --> 00:52:22.625
We will not stop
our pursuit for justice.
00:52:24.375 --> 00:52:28.792
We will stand here
and honour my late brother,
00:52:28.792 --> 00:52:30.458
my family member,
00:52:30.458 --> 00:52:34.083
my friend, Colten Boushie.
00:52:35.291 --> 00:52:37.041
Several trucks
circle the courthouse,
00:52:37.041 --> 00:52:40.333
revving their engines.
00:52:42.875 --> 00:52:45.417
When I ask the crew
to film them,
00:52:45.417 --> 00:52:49.458
one starts to record us
as well.
00:52:52.375 --> 00:52:52.917
I raise the tobacco
00:52:52.917 --> 00:52:55.125
and allowing the elder
to say a few words,
00:52:55.125 --> 00:52:57.291
so please just give us
a couple of moments.
00:52:57.291 --> 00:53:00.125
They will come and speak
with you guys shortly.
00:53:00.125 --> 00:53:00.792
Thank you very much.
00:53:00.792 --> 00:53:04.834
[Alvin]: I don\'t want
my grandkids to see this day
00:53:04.834 --> 00:53:06.417
that we have suffered,
00:53:06.417 --> 00:53:10.917
or any other families
that suffered.
00:53:11.333 --> 00:53:14.667
My heart cries today.
00:53:14.667 --> 00:53:16.208
All he ever focused on
00:53:16.208 --> 00:53:18.125
was how much the--
the kids drank.
00:53:18.125 --> 00:53:21.291
How far was the drive
from Red Pheasant to Maymont?
00:53:21.291 --> 00:53:23.542
Who all took a swim?
00:53:23.542 --> 00:53:25.375
Who cares?
00:53:25.375 --> 00:53:27.458
A young boy got killed.
00:53:27.458 --> 00:53:30.709
A young boy got killed
point blank,
00:53:30.709 --> 00:53:32.125
and all we can say is,
00:53:32.125 --> 00:53:35.291
\"Boom, the thing
just went off.\"
00:53:35.291 --> 00:53:37.291
How stupid is that?
00:53:37.291 --> 00:53:41.125
Justice crumbled today...
00:53:43.500 --> 00:53:49.667
and I feel so heartbroken
to the family.
00:53:50.625 --> 00:53:55.291
I just can\'t believe it
what happened this evening.
00:53:56.709 --> 00:53:57.125
I can\'t...
00:53:57.125 --> 00:54:02.375
you know, I can\'t say no more,
I\'m so lost with words.
00:54:02.375 --> 00:54:05.250
This verdict,
00:54:05.250 --> 00:54:08.208
this acquittal,
00:54:08.208 --> 00:54:09.083
it sends the message
00:54:09.083 --> 00:54:12.834
that it\'s open season
on Indigenous people...
00:54:13.792 --> 00:54:15.917
but it\'s not.
00:54:15.917 --> 00:54:16.291
It\'s not.
00:54:16.291 --> 00:54:20.458
The whole process has been
stacked against this family
00:54:20.458 --> 00:54:22.125
from the beginning.
00:54:22.125 --> 00:54:24.458
Through the last year
and a half,
00:54:24.458 --> 00:54:28.792
there was still a little bit
of an inkling of faith
00:54:28.792 --> 00:54:30.125
in the legal system.
00:54:30.125 --> 00:54:35.291
I don\'t know if \"justice system\"
is the proper term to be used.
00:54:35.291 --> 00:54:39.333
But when we can use excuses
in today\'s society
00:54:39.333 --> 00:54:41.583
as an engine revving,
00:54:41.583 --> 00:54:44.875
a vehicle driving onto,
into my yard,
00:54:44.875 --> 00:54:47.041
someone hopping on my quad,
00:54:47.041 --> 00:54:52.041
to chasing them down
and smashing their windows,
00:54:52.041 --> 00:54:54.291
kicking their taillights out,
00:54:54.291 --> 00:54:55.792
shooting them,
00:54:55.792 --> 00:54:59.041
then we\'re in
a very troubled place.
00:54:59.041 --> 00:55:01.291
In this area,
00:55:01.291 --> 00:55:04.208
there\'s been a lot of animosity,
00:55:04.208 --> 00:55:06.625
a lot of racism for many,
many years,
00:55:06.625 --> 00:55:09.291
many generations,
00:55:09.291 --> 00:55:11.458
that\'s not strange to us.
00:55:11.458 --> 00:55:14.750
We have eight men
that were hung here
00:55:14.750 --> 00:55:16.542
in the late 1800s.
00:55:16.542 --> 00:55:16.875
Why?
00:55:16.875 --> 00:55:20.667
\'Cause they were trying to
protect and feed their families.
00:55:20.667 --> 00:55:22.917
We have one of the Chiefs,
Poundmaker,
00:55:22.917 --> 00:55:24.792
that\'s being exonerated.
00:55:24.792 --> 00:55:26.166
Why?
00:55:26.166 --> 00:55:27.125
Because they understand now
00:55:27.125 --> 00:55:31.875
that they were trying to protect
and feed their families,
00:55:31.875 --> 00:55:34.041
not criminals.
00:55:34.041 --> 00:55:39.208
But it\'s the non-First Nations\'
narrative, often,
00:55:39.208 --> 00:55:40.125
that wins,
00:55:40.125 --> 00:55:45.333
and that\'s got to change.
00:55:46.375 --> 00:55:48.709
[protestor whoops] Ooo-wah!
00:55:48.709 --> 00:55:50.625
And now is the day,
00:55:50.625 --> 00:55:51.875
now is the time
00:55:51.875 --> 00:55:54.625
to flip the book
to a new chapter,
00:55:54.625 --> 00:55:57.208
and embrace the rage
00:55:57.208 --> 00:56:02.083
that is evident
all across Canada today.
00:56:02.083 --> 00:56:04.458
To feel it fully.
00:56:04.458 --> 00:56:09.250
No time to avoid it
and oppress it.
00:56:10.709 --> 00:56:12.834
Embrace it, and welcome it,
00:56:12.834 --> 00:56:16.667
and use it to fuel
our decolonization,
00:56:16.667 --> 00:56:18.208
use it fuel the stories
00:56:18.208 --> 00:56:20.208
you\'re gonna tell your children
00:56:20.208 --> 00:56:23.291
of the change
that needs to happen.
00:56:23.291 --> 00:56:26.041
[crowd cheering]
00:56:26.041 --> 00:56:29.125
[♪♪♪]
00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:36.291
[Tasha, narrating]: Less than
24 hours after the verdict,
00:56:36.291 --> 00:56:37.375
a meeting is arranged
00:56:37.375 --> 00:56:40.542
between Saskatchewan\'s
newly-appointed Premier
00:56:40.542 --> 00:56:42.291
and the family.
00:56:43.083 --> 00:56:45.333
I would like you
to sit beside Alvin,
00:56:45.333 --> 00:56:45.917
if that\'s possible...
00:56:45.917 --> 00:56:47.291
I would like to take
the opportunity
00:56:47.291 --> 00:56:50.917
to have more of a conversation,
if you will, with--
00:56:50.917 --> 00:56:52.917
with Colten\'s family
00:56:52.917 --> 00:56:55.041
on...
00:56:55.041 --> 00:56:55.375
if-if...
00:56:55.375 --> 00:56:59.417
on anything of your choice, um,
really, um,
00:56:59.417 --> 00:57:01.458
if that\'s sharing some stories,
00:57:01.458 --> 00:57:05.959
or if that\'s your advice
on some of the things
00:57:05.959 --> 00:57:07.709
that you could advise us on,
00:57:07.709 --> 00:57:09.792
I think all of us in the room,
00:57:09.792 --> 00:57:11.125
maybe some have
heard it already,
00:57:11.125 --> 00:57:16.083
on where things need to change
or improve.
00:57:16.083 --> 00:57:17.917
We have, you know,
00:57:17.917 --> 00:57:20.291
a hundred-year-old
judicial system.
00:57:20.291 --> 00:57:23.208
It\'s got some, some--
some great things in it,
00:57:23.208 --> 00:57:25.375
but it\'s also got
some huge shortcomings,
00:57:25.375 --> 00:57:28.875
especially when we deal with--
with First Nations.
00:57:28.875 --> 00:57:31.125
[Jade]: When my brother was shot
on August 9th,
00:57:31.125 --> 00:57:34.333
I was dancing at a Pow Wow
at Dakota Dunes,
00:57:34.333 --> 00:57:37.291
and my cousin comes up to me
before I danced,
00:57:37.291 --> 00:57:38.709
with tears in her eyes,
00:57:38.709 --> 00:57:42.709
and she said that Coco had died,
00:57:42.709 --> 00:57:44.041
and she didn\'t know how,
00:57:44.041 --> 00:57:48.291
she just got a call
that we all had to go home.
00:57:49.709 --> 00:57:51.333
So, on the drive home
00:57:51.333 --> 00:57:53.834
back to Red Pheasant,
00:57:53.834 --> 00:57:57.208
I go on Facebook
to check in on my cousins,
00:57:57.208 --> 00:57:58.375
\'cause they\'re calling me,
00:57:58.375 --> 00:57:59.458
and trying to message me,
00:57:59.458 --> 00:58:02.125
and make sure that I knew,
and I was aware,
00:58:02.125 --> 00:58:05.750
and the first thing I saw was,
you know...
00:58:05.750 --> 00:58:07.709
[voice shaky with tears]
00:58:07.709 --> 00:58:09.041
\"Natives were stealing,
00:58:09.041 --> 00:58:12.291
and one had gotten shot
and got what he deserved.
00:58:12.291 --> 00:58:13.917
He shouldn\'t have been there.
00:58:13.917 --> 00:58:15.375
He shouldn\'t have
been stealing.\"
00:58:15.375 --> 00:58:18.583
Instantly, he was under attack,
00:58:18.583 --> 00:58:19.208
and not just him,
00:58:19.208 --> 00:58:21.917
but Indigenous people
were under attack,
00:58:21.917 --> 00:58:23.458
I was under attack,
00:58:23.458 --> 00:58:25.208
all these leaders
were under attack,
00:58:25.208 --> 00:58:28.542
anyone with brown skin
was under attack,
00:58:28.542 --> 00:58:33.291
and that was the day
that my brother died...
00:58:35.375 --> 00:58:38.125
and as the investigation
went on,
00:58:38.125 --> 00:58:39.959
to hear that,
00:58:39.959 --> 00:58:41.041
at the preliminary,
00:58:41.041 --> 00:58:41.709
to hear that officers
00:58:41.709 --> 00:58:44.875
who have only been on the force
for a couple of years
00:58:44.875 --> 00:58:47.041
are the ones
who handled the evidence,
00:58:47.041 --> 00:58:47.959
that the lack of resources
00:58:47.959 --> 00:58:50.125
that were put towards
this investigation,
00:58:50.125 --> 00:58:53.583
how it was treated
so neglectfully,
00:58:53.583 --> 00:58:58.458
how Colten laid out in the rain,
00:58:58.458 --> 00:58:59.709
how he was not covered,
00:58:59.709 --> 00:59:02.792
that vehicle was not covered,
00:59:02.792 --> 00:59:06.792
evidence was washed away.
00:59:07.709 --> 00:59:10.333
My brother
laid out in the rain
00:59:10.333 --> 00:59:15.625
while his blood
was being washed away...
00:59:17.542 --> 00:59:21.291
and this is the evidence
that\'s presented in court
00:59:21.291 --> 00:59:24.041
on his behalf.
00:59:24.041 --> 00:59:28.208
That\'s what the jury
had to use to make a decision
00:59:28.208 --> 00:59:34.166
because it was shitty evidence
to begin with...
00:59:35.709 --> 00:59:37.083
and I couldn\'t say that,
00:59:37.083 --> 00:59:38.792
I couldn\'t say that
to the public,
00:59:38.792 --> 00:59:41.125
that this is what my family
is dealing with,
00:59:41.125 --> 00:59:45.709
because I wanted
to give the system a chance.
00:59:48.583 --> 00:59:51.750
So, hiy-hiy, thank you again,
and I just...
00:59:51.750 --> 00:59:54.125
I just, I love each
and every one of you,
00:59:54.125 --> 00:59:57.625
and I miss, I just wish
many blessings for your home
00:59:57.625 --> 01:00:00.166
and your families.
01:00:15.583 --> 01:00:17.375
Two days after the verdict,
01:00:17.375 --> 01:00:19.792
the family
gets on a plane to Ottawa.
01:00:19.792 --> 01:00:22.875
They want Colten\'s death
to mean something
01:00:22.875 --> 01:00:25.542
and for the system
to be held to account
01:00:25.542 --> 01:00:28.417
for how it failed them.
01:00:29.625 --> 01:00:31.959
Their first meetings
are with Carolyn Bennett,
01:00:31.959 --> 01:00:35.041
Minister of
Crown-Indigenous Relations,
01:00:35.041 --> 01:00:36.083
and Jane Philpott,
01:00:36.083 --> 01:00:38.875
Minister
of Indigenous Services.
01:00:38.875 --> 01:00:40.458
Everyone, including the media,
01:00:40.458 --> 01:00:43.875
wants to hear what
Colten\'s family has to say.
01:00:54.875 --> 01:00:56.750
[Jade]:
...Indigenous jury member.
01:00:56.750 --> 01:01:00.417
They would have been able
to understand probably more
01:01:00.417 --> 01:01:03.208
upon the youth\'s experiences
with RCMP,
01:01:03.208 --> 01:01:06.834
the trauma, the Treaty...
01:01:08.375 --> 01:01:10.291
Hi. I\'m Terry.
01:01:10.291 --> 01:01:10.834
Hi.
01:01:10.834 --> 01:01:12.417
Take a seat over here.
01:01:12.417 --> 01:01:13.959
Thanks for coming in.
01:01:13.959 --> 01:01:16.375
So, this is taking up
a lot of our show today.
01:01:16.375 --> 01:01:20.875
We\'ve got lawyers coming in
and MPs coming in to discuss it.
01:01:20.875 --> 01:01:23.959
So, this is where
we do the headlines,
01:01:23.959 --> 01:01:25.875
and then we introduce you,
01:01:25.875 --> 01:01:27.959
and then we have
seven or eight minutes,
01:01:27.959 --> 01:01:30.875
and it disappears
just like that,
01:01:30.875 --> 01:01:33.208
so... make your points.
01:01:33.208 --> 01:01:35.917
[TV news crew]:
10 seconds, standby.
01:01:35.917 --> 01:01:37.208
I\'m Terry Milewski,
01:01:37.208 --> 01:01:40.542
and today on Power & Politics...
01:01:40.542 --> 01:01:41.959
Seeking answers,
01:01:41.959 --> 01:01:43.583
Colten Boushie\'s family
is in Ottawa
01:01:43.583 --> 01:01:46.792
to press politicians
for change.
01:01:46.792 --> 01:01:48.208
They say the system
failed him,
01:01:48.208 --> 01:01:50.458
after a jury delivered
a not-guilty verdict
01:01:50.458 --> 01:01:52.875
in the young
indigenous man\'s death.
01:01:52.875 --> 01:01:55.375
What message are they bringing
to Parliament Hill?
01:01:55.375 --> 01:01:59.083
[TV theme song plays]
01:01:59.792 --> 01:02:01.709
We\'re not here
because only of the verdict.
01:02:01.709 --> 01:02:04.917
The injustices started
at the beginning of this case
01:02:04.917 --> 01:02:06.542
and they culminated
with the verdict.
01:02:06.542 --> 01:02:09.041
The verdict is only
a small part of this.
01:02:09.041 --> 01:02:11.792
Do you expect
the system to change
01:02:11.792 --> 01:02:13.625
as a result
of your meetings here?
01:02:13.625 --> 01:02:15.709
Are you optimistic about that?
01:02:15.709 --> 01:02:16.709
Well, that\'s why we\'re here.
01:02:16.709 --> 01:02:20.125
My family and I were here
to share the hardships,
01:02:20.125 --> 01:02:21.375
the racism
and the discrimination
01:02:21.375 --> 01:02:24.792
that we felt and experienced
all throughout the process,
01:02:24.792 --> 01:02:27.542
and we\'re hoping
that by vocalizing
01:02:27.542 --> 01:02:29.250
and sharing
what we\'ve been through,
01:02:29.250 --> 01:02:31.208
that it doesn\'t fall
on deaf ears.
01:02:31.208 --> 01:02:32.625
I know this has been very short,
01:02:32.625 --> 01:02:35.417
but I\'m grateful for you both
coming in very much.
01:02:35.417 --> 01:02:37.625
Thanks to Chris Murphy
and Jade Tootoosis,
01:02:37.625 --> 01:02:38.125
Thank you both.
01:02:38.125 --> 01:02:40.291
-Thank you for having us.
-Thank you.
01:02:40.291 --> 01:02:41.625
Good job, kid.
01:02:41.625 --> 01:02:43.208
[Jade]: You too.
01:02:43.750 --> 01:02:45.083
Am I done for today?
01:02:45.083 --> 01:02:46.375
[Chris]: You\'re done.
01:02:46.375 --> 01:02:47.875
Okay.
01:02:54.417 --> 01:02:56.041
[Tasha, narrating]:
As Minister of Public Safety,
01:02:56.041 --> 01:03:00.750
Ralph Goodale is ultimately
responsible for the RCMP.
01:03:00.750 --> 01:03:01.709
Jody Wilson-Raybould
01:03:01.709 --> 01:03:04.875
is the first-ever
Indigenous Justice minister.
01:03:04.875 --> 01:03:08.875
The family lays the truth
of the RCMP\'s actions
01:03:08.875 --> 01:03:10.750
on Goodale\'s plate.
01:03:10.750 --> 01:03:11.500
They tell Wilson-Raybould
01:03:11.500 --> 01:03:14.625
about the range of the racism
they\'ve experienced
01:03:14.625 --> 01:03:18.709
within the legal system.
01:03:19.834 --> 01:03:22.208
[reporter]: Minister, are you
pleased with today\'s meeting?
01:03:22.208 --> 01:03:24.000
[Jody Wilson-Raybould]:
These are systemic issues
01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:27.208
that are gonna, um,
take all of us to, to resolve,
01:03:27.208 --> 01:03:28.750
so we talked about that.
01:03:28.750 --> 01:03:29.166
Thanks.
01:03:29.166 --> 01:03:30.417
--And is one of those
peremptory challenges,
01:03:30.417 --> 01:03:31.417
are you looking at maybe..?
01:03:31.417 --> 01:03:33.542
We\'re looking at
peremptory challenges.
01:03:33.542 --> 01:03:34.875
Thank you.
01:03:35.959 --> 01:03:38.250
[Eleanore, reading]:
\"Dear Debbie Baptiste, tansi.
01:03:38.250 --> 01:03:40.625
I am 13 years old
and in Grade 8.
01:03:40.625 --> 01:03:43.750
I go to Piyesiw Awasis School
in Thunderchild.
01:03:43.750 --> 01:03:45.125
I am so sorry for your loss.
01:03:45.125 --> 01:03:48.917
I know how it feels
to lose someone so close.
01:03:48.917 --> 01:03:49.875
What I did to heal,
01:03:49.875 --> 01:03:53.375
I smudged with sage
and sweetgrass,
01:03:53.375 --> 01:03:55.625
and I went to a sweat.
01:03:55.625 --> 01:03:56.125
Just think about
01:03:56.125 --> 01:03:57.709
all the good memories
of your son.
01:03:57.709 --> 01:04:01.959
He will always be
in your mind and heart.
01:04:01.959 --> 01:04:05.625
Hiy-hiy.
Justice for Colten.\"
01:04:05.917 --> 01:04:10.458
[Debbie]:
It fills my heart with hope,
01:04:10.458 --> 01:04:13.291
which I lost and gave up,
01:04:13.291 --> 01:04:15.875
but then every time
I give up,
01:04:15.875 --> 01:04:18.625
and I give up hope,
01:04:18.625 --> 01:04:21.208
then this happens.
01:04:21.208 --> 01:04:23.625
I woke up in the middle
of the night,
01:04:23.625 --> 01:04:26.458
and I\'m concluding
my statement with,
01:04:26.458 --> 01:04:29.959
\"We, indigenous people
of Canada,
01:04:29.959 --> 01:04:31.875
deserve better.\"
01:04:31.875 --> 01:04:33.792
Yeah, it\'s kind of, like,
01:04:33.792 --> 01:04:37.208
the whole country
is undergoing grief.
01:04:37.208 --> 01:04:38.875
[Jade]:
It\'s an honour to meet you.
01:04:38.875 --> 01:04:41.208
[Lillian Dyck]:
Honour to meet you as well.
01:04:41.208 --> 01:04:43.417
You\'ve done so well, my dear,
01:04:43.417 --> 01:04:45.125
standing up, and so strong.
01:04:45.125 --> 01:04:47.250
Our minister\'s
announcement today
01:04:47.250 --> 01:04:49.417
is going to include a commitment
01:04:49.417 --> 01:04:52.375
to look at, uh,
changing the criminal code,
01:04:52.375 --> 01:04:55.125
to address the issue
of jury selection,
01:04:55.125 --> 01:04:57.041
and that we\'ll get
more details next week.
01:04:57.041 --> 01:04:59.875
So one way or the other,
we\'re gonna change the law.
01:04:59.875 --> 01:05:02.083
This is one story
that\'s now coming to light,
01:05:02.083 --> 01:05:04.583
but this has happened
to so many people before
01:05:04.583 --> 01:05:06.208
and is maybe
happening right now,
01:05:06.208 --> 01:05:07.375
but we don\'t know about it.
01:05:07.375 --> 01:05:10.041
If we want to rely on,
as Georgina was saying,
01:05:10.041 --> 01:05:11.417
if we want to rely on the RCMP,
01:05:11.417 --> 01:05:15.834
but they\'re treating the family
of someone that\'s been killed
01:05:15.834 --> 01:05:17.500
as if they\'re suspects somehow,
01:05:17.500 --> 01:05:20.458
right, that perpetuates,
that continues a story
01:05:20.458 --> 01:05:22.875
that there\'s something wrong
with Indigenous people.
01:05:22.875 --> 01:05:25.792
After all this is done,
has been said and done,
01:05:25.792 --> 01:05:28.792
I thought we would
move forward in our lives
01:05:28.792 --> 01:05:29.542
and start healing,
01:05:29.542 --> 01:05:34.083
but we haven\'t had
that opportunity to heal at all.
01:05:36.792 --> 01:05:38.709
[Alvin]: I come from
grassroots level,
01:05:38.709 --> 01:05:41.125
and, you know, I got--
01:05:41.125 --> 01:05:41.875
[Jade]: Okay, okay--
01:05:41.875 --> 01:05:43.709
[Debbie]:
Before we go in there then,
01:05:43.709 --> 01:05:46.875
exactly what are we--
me and Jade doing wrong?
01:05:46.875 --> 01:05:47.458
[Alvin]: Nothing--
01:05:47.458 --> 01:05:49.375
Well, I thought we were
speaking from the heart,
01:05:49.375 --> 01:05:52.208
and we were all
on the same page, Al.
01:05:52.208 --> 01:05:52.709
[Alvin]: Okay.
01:05:52.709 --> 01:05:56.375
Okay, so don\'t...
stress us out.
01:05:56.375 --> 01:05:59.834
[Sheldon]: We\'re all from home,
we\'re all here for a reason.
01:05:59.834 --> 01:06:03.166
Keep that reason in front,
put ourselves behind.
01:06:03.166 --> 01:06:04.125
Okay?
01:06:04.125 --> 01:06:04.709
I love you guys.
01:06:04.709 --> 01:06:07.458
Everyone be strong,
and be solid together here,
01:06:07.458 --> 01:06:08.375
as we go in there.
01:06:08.375 --> 01:06:10.875
We\'re here to send a message
for our people.
01:06:10.875 --> 01:06:12.041
[others replying]: Yeah. Yup.
01:06:12.041 --> 01:06:13.125
[Sheldon]: For Colten.
01:06:13.125 --> 01:06:13.875
Yeah. Yes.
01:06:13.875 --> 01:06:15.458
That\'s number one.
01:06:26.125 --> 01:06:27.709
Hello.
01:06:27.709 --> 01:06:29.792
Hi. Eleanore Sunchild.
01:06:29.792 --> 01:06:33.041
[whispering] Oh, my gosh.
01:06:34.667 --> 01:06:37.125
[group murmuring]
01:06:37.875 --> 01:06:39.166
Tasha Hubbard.
01:06:39.375 --> 01:06:43.000
Debbie, why don\'t you
come sit beside me?
01:06:45.041 --> 01:06:47.291
Jade, do you want to sit here?
01:06:47.291 --> 01:06:49.208
-Sure.
-Okay.
01:06:49.208 --> 01:06:51.875
Come on around,
have a seat wherever.
01:06:51.875 --> 01:06:53.875
Thank you so much
for coming in.
01:06:53.875 --> 01:06:55.125
I know you\'ve had a...
01:06:55.125 --> 01:06:58.458
it\'s been busy days of--
of meetings.
01:06:58.458 --> 01:06:59.792
Let me just say off the top,
01:06:59.792 --> 01:07:04.625
um, that, like I said
on, on, on Friday and Saturday,
01:07:04.625 --> 01:07:05.792
our heart goes out to you,
01:07:05.792 --> 01:07:08.083
to your family,
to the whole community.
01:07:08.083 --> 01:07:12.333
This is, uh, this is a time
for, for reflection
01:07:12.333 --> 01:07:15.583
on how we keep coming
to this point as a country
01:07:15.583 --> 01:07:18.625
and how we can make sure that,
01:07:18.625 --> 01:07:20.250
that no families
ever suffer again
01:07:20.250 --> 01:07:22.709
the way, the way you guys
are having to suffer.
01:07:22.709 --> 01:07:26.917
Yes, that\'s the message
we want to get across.
01:07:26.917 --> 01:07:29.542
It\'s a constant nightmare,
01:07:29.542 --> 01:07:34.250
and I have to go through
this life without my son.
01:07:34.625 --> 01:07:37.458
Our cameras have to leave
after a few minutes,
01:07:37.458 --> 01:07:38.917
but I\'m allowed to stay.
01:07:38.917 --> 01:07:40.792
Trudeau seems willing
to listen,
01:07:40.792 --> 01:07:45.458
but doesn\'t commit
to doing anything concrete.
01:07:50.375 --> 01:07:52.458
[cameras snapping rapidly]
01:07:55.291 --> 01:07:59.000
We don\'t just speak
for my brother, Colten,
01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:00.208
we represent all those
01:08:00.208 --> 01:08:03.041
who have also went through
the process,
01:08:03.041 --> 01:08:04.583
and received no justice,
01:08:04.583 --> 01:08:07.083
and face all the systemic
discrimination
01:08:07.083 --> 01:08:08.291
that we\'ve endured.
01:08:08.291 --> 01:08:09.125
We stand here for them,
01:08:09.125 --> 01:08:12.041
and that\'s what
Justice For Colten is about.
01:08:12.041 --> 01:08:13.041
[reporter]: Thank you.
01:08:13.041 --> 01:08:13.542
Can I ask--
01:08:13.542 --> 01:08:15.000
some people
are interpreting the fact
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:17.208
that you\'ve met with
the Prime Minister
01:08:17.208 --> 01:08:17.959
and several Cabinet Ministers,
01:08:17.959 --> 01:08:21.417
as the government taking sides
in this court case,
01:08:21.417 --> 01:08:24.125
and I wonder how you--
how you feel about that.
01:08:24.125 --> 01:08:25.458
[Eleanore]:
It\'s a human issue.
01:08:25.458 --> 01:08:27.417
It\'s, it\'s an issue
of Canadian justice
01:08:27.417 --> 01:08:29.917
and about the inclusion
of Indigenous people
01:08:29.917 --> 01:08:31.583
within the Canadian
justice system,
01:08:31.583 --> 01:08:35.792
so it really is an issue
for all of Canadians.
01:08:41.959 --> 01:08:43.667
[exhaling] Okay.
01:08:52.750 --> 01:08:53.458
The family\'s last meeting
01:08:53.458 --> 01:08:56.250
is with representatives
from the Conservative Party.
01:08:56.250 --> 01:08:59.208
Despite being
from Saskatchewan,
01:08:59.208 --> 01:09:01.375
Conservative Leader
Andrew Scheer
01:09:01.375 --> 01:09:04.333
ndeclines to attend the meeting.
01:09:04.333 --> 01:09:05.417
It\'s come a long way.
01:09:05.417 --> 01:09:07.375
We\'ve got a lot more to come,
01:09:07.375 --> 01:09:08.291
we, we realize that.
01:09:08.291 --> 01:09:09.625
Our education rates
01:09:09.625 --> 01:09:12.208
are certainly not
where we need them,
01:09:12.208 --> 01:09:14.625
but once we get there,
01:09:14.625 --> 01:09:15.709
the prosperity,
01:09:15.709 --> 01:09:18.000
we want to share the economic.
01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:19.917
[Eleanore]: It\'s not just
Indigenous youth
01:09:19.917 --> 01:09:20.959
who need educating,
01:09:20.959 --> 01:09:22.917
it\'s your people
who need educating
01:09:22.917 --> 01:09:26.208
about the true history of--
of Saskatchewan.
01:09:26.208 --> 01:09:29.625
The world is watching
your constituency
01:09:29.625 --> 01:09:31.458
to see what,
what you\'re gonna do
01:09:31.458 --> 01:09:33.208
and what the community leaders
are gonna--
01:09:33.208 --> 01:09:35.417
what the Saskatchewan leaders
are gonna do
01:09:35.417 --> 01:09:36.250
in response to this.
01:09:36.250 --> 01:09:40.458
People are talking about
using vigilante justice
01:09:40.458 --> 01:09:41.792
to protect their property,
01:09:41.792 --> 01:09:43.875
and that all comes from
the stereotypes
01:09:43.875 --> 01:09:44.875
that we see in this case.
01:09:44.875 --> 01:09:47.875
You know, this case
was treated more like a theft
01:09:47.875 --> 01:09:49.208
than it was a murder,
01:09:49.208 --> 01:09:51.959
and there were stereotypes
of the thieving Indian,
01:09:51.959 --> 01:09:52.542
the drunken Indian,
01:09:52.542 --> 01:09:54.625
and we seen that
all throughout this trial,
01:09:54.625 --> 01:09:57.834
and that, you know, it--
it all resulted in,
01:09:57.834 --> 01:10:00.166
in a not-guilty verdict, right,
01:10:00.166 --> 01:10:02.291
and we\'re not here
to talk about an appeal,
01:10:02.291 --> 01:10:05.500
you know, we\'ll let
the province do the--
01:10:05.500 --> 01:10:06.750
go through that process,
01:10:06.750 --> 01:10:09.458
but we\'d like to hear from you
01:10:09.458 --> 01:10:11.959
about how you\'re going
to deal with those stereotypes
01:10:11.959 --> 01:10:14.750
that this family has faced
in our province.
01:10:14.750 --> 01:10:17.041
The only way
we can move forward
01:10:17.041 --> 01:10:18.542
from these types of situations
01:10:18.542 --> 01:10:20.417
or any, or any
type of situation
01:10:20.417 --> 01:10:22.375
is by having
conversation, right,
01:10:22.375 --> 01:10:26.208
and, and really lending a hand
out to one another,
01:10:26.208 --> 01:10:28.625
that\'s the only way that
we\'re going to,
01:10:28.625 --> 01:10:32.083
to reach healing
and reconciliation
01:10:32.083 --> 01:10:34.041
and relationship
with people, right,
01:10:34.041 --> 01:10:34.959
because I think that,
01:10:34.959 --> 01:10:36.375
that\'s ultimately
the end goal,
01:10:36.375 --> 01:10:38.625
so we can live
in unity and peace, right,
01:10:38.625 --> 01:10:41.208
so we can have relationship
with everybody.
01:10:41.208 --> 01:10:43.583
To be frank and honest,
I don\'t have an answer.
01:10:43.583 --> 01:10:47.375
I don\'t know, I don\'t know
what the answer is right now.
01:10:47.375 --> 01:10:49.625
This racism needs to stop,
01:10:49.625 --> 01:10:50.917
and you could probably start
01:10:50.917 --> 01:10:53.667
with those fire--
Farmers with Firearms
01:10:53.667 --> 01:10:57.000
that say nothing
but racial discrimination
01:10:57.000 --> 01:10:58.542
on that page.
01:10:58.542 --> 01:11:00.875
We don\'t have a page like that.
01:11:00.875 --> 01:11:03.625
We respect human life.
01:11:03.625 --> 01:11:06.166
They\'ve lost the loved one,
01:11:06.166 --> 01:11:08.792
and they are getting hate mail,
01:11:08.792 --> 01:11:09.500
and that\'s, you know...
01:11:09.500 --> 01:11:11.291
I mean, let\'s just say
that\'s not right.
01:11:11.291 --> 01:11:13.792
I mean, that\'s, that\'s
a pretty easy thing to say,
01:11:13.792 --> 01:11:16.750
that\'s not right for
these people to get hate mail.
01:11:16.750 --> 01:11:17.583
We talk about unity,
01:11:17.583 --> 01:11:20.542
we talk about reconciliation,
01:11:20.542 --> 01:11:25.041
what are you gonna do,
01:11:25.041 --> 01:11:25.542
as human beings,
01:11:25.542 --> 01:11:27.625
as, as people
within your position even,
01:11:27.625 --> 01:11:33.208
what is your answer to this
going on in Saskatchewan?
01:11:36.083 --> 01:11:37.875
The federal government
introduces a bill
01:11:37.875 --> 01:11:42.250
that removes peremptory
nchallenges from jury selection.
01:11:42.250 --> 01:11:45.417
Still, Colten\'s supporters
across the country
01:11:45.417 --> 01:11:45.959
want more done
01:11:45.959 --> 01:11:50.542
to address the structural racism
in the legal system.
01:11:50.542 --> 01:11:51.709
A month after the verdict,
01:11:51.709 --> 01:11:53.417
Saskatchewan\'s
justice department
01:11:53.417 --> 01:11:56.542
declines to appeal
Stanley\'s acquittal.
01:11:56.542 --> 01:12:00.083
Colten\'s family is devastated.
01:12:00.083 --> 01:12:06.166
The province will go on
to strengthen trespass laws.
01:12:15.625 --> 01:12:19.125
The online comments
continue to pour in,
01:12:19.125 --> 01:12:19.959
including one
01:12:19.959 --> 01:12:24.542
from a currently-serving
RCMP officer.
01:12:28.041 --> 01:12:28.667
The RCMP announces
01:12:28.667 --> 01:12:31.333
they will hold a series
of town hall meetings
01:12:31.333 --> 01:12:34.291
to discuss rural crime.
01:12:34.291 --> 01:12:35.667
One will be held
01:12:35.667 --> 01:12:38.041
in the area
Gerald Stanley is from.
01:12:38.041 --> 01:12:43.291
I decide to attend,
along with local media.
01:12:43.458 --> 01:12:47.542
[man]: Drunk to the point
of mental incapacity,
01:12:47.542 --> 01:12:49.041
armed, meth heads.
01:12:49.041 --> 01:12:51.041
I may come into my yard,
01:12:51.041 --> 01:12:54.208
or come walkin\' out of the house
while this is goin\' on,
01:12:54.208 --> 01:12:57.792
and I\'m being told
just let it happen,
01:12:57.792 --> 01:12:58.291
but I don\'t know
01:12:58.291 --> 01:13:00.709
that they won\'t do
something stupid first.
01:13:00.709 --> 01:13:03.625
It doesn\'t matter if you\'re
red, white, blue, green!
01:13:03.625 --> 01:13:06.959
Who cares what colour you are,
it\'s not a race issue!
01:13:06.959 --> 01:13:09.625
It\'s a criminal
against a victim,
01:13:09.625 --> 01:13:10.417
and we\'re victims,
01:13:10.417 --> 01:13:12.583
and we can\'t do
anything about it!
01:13:12.583 --> 01:13:14.458
That\'s what I\'m trying to say.
01:13:14.458 --> 01:13:19.291
[crowd applauds]
01:13:19.291 --> 01:13:19.792
You know what,
01:13:19.792 --> 01:13:23.250
I\'ll spell it out right now,
right here and everything.
01:13:23.250 --> 01:13:26.208
Probably 80% of us,
farmers here,
01:13:26.208 --> 01:13:29.959
will do exactly
what Gerald Stanley did.
01:13:29.959 --> 01:13:31.291
[RCMP officer]: Okay, well--
01:13:31.291 --> 01:13:32.375
You know?
01:13:32.375 --> 01:13:33.834
That\'s how it\'s gotta be!
01:13:33.834 --> 01:13:35.959
I gotta protect my stuff
no matter what!
01:13:35.959 --> 01:13:38.333
[RCMP officer]:
Okay, defence of property
01:13:38.333 --> 01:13:39.875
and defence of person
01:13:39.875 --> 01:13:41.959
are two different things
entirely.
01:13:41.959 --> 01:13:45.291
We\'re never gonna
get rid of property crime.
01:13:45.291 --> 01:13:46.125
Never.
01:13:46.125 --> 01:13:48.750
There are things that drive
property crime, okay?
01:13:48.750 --> 01:13:51.583
A large part of it
is drugs, okay?
01:13:51.583 --> 01:13:54.750
It\'s, uh,
it is part of it, okay?
01:13:54.750 --> 01:13:55.750
It\'s a reality,
01:13:55.750 --> 01:13:57.125
I\'m speaking from experience.
01:13:57.125 --> 01:14:01.709
I have a ranch,
and I gotta look after it,
01:14:01.709 --> 01:14:04.625
and, in my thinking,
01:14:04.625 --> 01:14:08.083
I\'m not gonna shoot somebody
for a quad,
01:14:08.083 --> 01:14:10.375
or an expensive machine.
01:14:10.375 --> 01:14:12.959
If I do that,
I gotta live with that.
01:14:12.959 --> 01:14:14.208
It\'s all about education.
01:14:14.208 --> 01:14:17.041
I know that
if a guy is doing that,
01:14:17.041 --> 01:14:21.875
hey, I\'m in a rough situation,
but that\'s the way it is.
01:14:24.208 --> 01:14:26.250
I wonder if there\'s
an unspoken fear
01:14:26.250 --> 01:14:27.709
of Indigenous men
01:14:27.709 --> 01:14:29.917
that permeates
these town halls.
01:14:29.917 --> 01:14:33.041
It makes me worry about
how my son and nephew
01:14:33.041 --> 01:14:37.041
will be seen
when they are older.
01:14:37.375 --> 01:14:39.375
I decide to find the young man
01:14:39.375 --> 01:14:41.083
who was the first
Indigenous person
01:14:41.083 --> 01:14:45.083
to be dismissed
from the jury pool.
01:14:45.083 --> 01:14:48.291
As soon as
I looked at the attorneys,
01:14:48.291 --> 01:14:51.250
I knew what I was to them.
01:14:51.250 --> 01:14:53.709
To the defendants,
01:14:53.709 --> 01:14:57.542
I was something
that shouldn\'t be there.
01:14:57.542 --> 01:14:59.917
But as soon as
I saw their eyes,
01:14:59.917 --> 01:15:01.041
they turned their heads,
01:15:01.041 --> 01:15:01.792
they looked at me,
01:15:01.792 --> 01:15:04.125
they immediately went back
to their papers,
01:15:04.125 --> 01:15:05.083
and wrote something down,
01:15:05.083 --> 01:15:09.542
and immediately I knew
I wasn\'t going to make it,
01:15:09.542 --> 01:15:11.250
and a part of me was relieved,
01:15:11.250 --> 01:15:14.875
and a part of me was, um...
01:15:14.875 --> 01:15:16.542
a little, a little mixed,
01:15:16.542 --> 01:15:18.458
because in all honesty,
01:15:18.458 --> 01:15:22.291
I would have given
a fair verdict,
01:15:22.291 --> 01:15:23.208
to not be biased,
01:15:23.208 --> 01:15:27.959
because that\'s something
I try to, um,
01:15:27.959 --> 01:15:29.041
try to stand by
01:15:29.041 --> 01:15:31.792
is to not be biased
in certain areas,
01:15:31.792 --> 01:15:34.625
especially with law
in general.
01:15:34.625 --> 01:15:37.959
[Tasha]: If you got called
for another jury,
01:15:37.959 --> 01:15:40.625
would you serve?
01:15:40.625 --> 01:15:42.917
Yeah, I...
01:15:42.917 --> 01:15:46.208
It\'s just my duty as a citizen,
01:15:46.208 --> 01:15:50.041
but once again, I might...
01:15:50.041 --> 01:15:51.625
I might be, uh,
01:15:51.625 --> 01:15:55.667
I wouldn\'t say
objectified, but...
01:15:55.667 --> 01:15:59.792
I just might be seen
as another native.
01:16:01.417 --> 01:16:03.917
[Tasha, narrating]:
The family is unhappy.
01:16:03.917 --> 01:16:06.875
They feel that the provincial
and federal governments
01:16:06.875 --> 01:16:08.208
naren\'t responding to their push
01:16:08.208 --> 01:16:11.250
for a structural overhaul
of the legal system.
01:16:11.250 --> 01:16:15.333
Because Treaties
are international covenants,
01:16:15.333 --> 01:16:16.834
the family decides to advocate
01:16:16.834 --> 01:16:19.291
at the United Nations
Permanent Forum
01:16:19.291 --> 01:16:21.750
on Indigenous Issues.
01:16:21.750 --> 01:16:26.041
Jade is chosen
as the spokesperson.
01:16:30.500 --> 01:16:32.709
I\'ve been wearing ribbon skirts
01:16:32.709 --> 01:16:34.542
to all the proceedings and that,
01:16:34.542 --> 01:16:38.458
and it\'s just something
that\'s re-emerged
01:16:38.458 --> 01:16:40.125
over the past few years
01:16:40.125 --> 01:16:44.375
within a lot
of Indigenous nations,
01:16:44.375 --> 01:16:45.208
because I find that
01:16:45.208 --> 01:16:49.500
they\'re a strong representation
of being a nehiyaw iskwew,
01:16:49.500 --> 01:16:50.917
of being a Cree woman.
01:16:50.917 --> 01:16:54.542
So when I wear them,
they make me feel stronger,
01:16:54.542 --> 01:16:57.875
more confident, braver.
01:16:57.875 --> 01:16:59.542
They just make me proud.
01:16:59.542 --> 01:17:01.834
They make me feel better.
01:17:13.834 --> 01:17:15.375
When I was reading it,
01:17:15.375 --> 01:17:18.375
I was, like,
\"Am I saying it too fast?
01:17:18.375 --> 01:17:20.041
Am I saying it too slow?\"
01:17:20.041 --> 01:17:22.291
and then, yeah,
we only timed it once,
01:17:22.291 --> 01:17:25.792
and they\'re like, \"It\'s perfect,
it\'s right on time.\"
01:17:25.792 --> 01:17:26.250
[laughs]
01:17:26.250 --> 01:17:29.333
But we only
went through it once.
01:17:30.291 --> 01:17:33.291
The Federation of Saskatchewan
Indigenous Nations
01:17:33.291 --> 01:17:34.792
has given the family
their seat,
01:17:34.792 --> 01:17:38.125
but Jade still has to make it
on the speaker\'s list.
01:17:38.125 --> 01:17:41.625
The session has a strict
closing time of 6:00 p.m.
01:17:41.625 --> 01:17:45.333
>[speeches in progress]
...disposessions and violence...
01:17:53.291 --> 01:17:54.875
[Victoria Tauli-Corpuz]:
Madame Chairperson
01:17:54.875 --> 01:17:57.250
of the United Nations
Permanent Forum
01:17:57.250 --> 01:17:58.417
on Indigenous issues,
01:17:58.417 --> 01:18:01.417
distinguished members
of the permanent forum...
01:18:01.417 --> 01:18:03.375
[Angelo Baca]:
Under Article 11 of UNDRIP,
01:18:03.375 --> 01:18:06.041
we have the right to maintain,
protect, and develop
01:18:06.041 --> 01:18:08.417
past, present, and future
manifestations of culture,
01:18:08.417 --> 01:18:10.709
such as archeological
and historical sites.
01:18:10.709 --> 01:18:12.709
This goal was in part realized
01:18:12.709 --> 01:18:14.709
by the Bear\'s Ears
National Monument...
01:18:14.709 --> 01:18:16.917
It\'s now the afternoon,
01:18:16.917 --> 01:18:19.750
and Jade is still
not on the list.
01:18:20.917 --> 01:18:24.458
[other speakers continue
in French]
01:18:24.709 --> 01:18:30.041
6:00 o\'clock has arrived,
and time has run out.
01:18:30.041 --> 01:18:32.625
[UN speaker]:
...this demonstration of support
01:18:32.625 --> 01:18:33.959
inspires me to remain strong,
01:18:33.959 --> 01:18:37.709
and to further pursue
my commitment to the promotion
01:18:37.709 --> 01:18:41.208
and protection of
Indigenous peoples\' rights.
01:19:00.500 --> 01:19:03.709
I am a sister
of the late Colten Boushie,
01:19:03.709 --> 01:19:05.625
a 22-year-old
nehiyaw napew
01:19:05.625 --> 01:19:07.208
from the Red Pheasant
First Nation,
01:19:07.208 --> 01:19:11.083
a Cree community
in the state of Canada.
01:19:11.083 --> 01:19:12.500
Colten and
his Indigenous friends
01:19:12.500 --> 01:19:15.834
drove onto a settler farm
one afternoon
01:19:15.834 --> 01:19:16.959
in August 2016,
01:19:16.959 --> 01:19:19.417
where he was shot
in the back of the head
01:19:19.417 --> 01:19:22.500
by a non-Indigenous farmer
named Gerald Stanley.
01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:25.917
An all-white jury
acquitted Gerald Stanley
01:19:25.917 --> 01:19:26.875
of all charges.
01:19:26.875 --> 01:19:29.917
Colten was the baby boy
of the family,
01:19:29.917 --> 01:19:34.291
Colten had a promising future
with a strong work ethic.
01:19:34.291 --> 01:19:37.583
He had just received
his forest-fighter certificate.
01:19:37.583 --> 01:19:39.125
He was a traditional helper,
01:19:39.125 --> 01:19:41.625
trained with
ceremonial protocol,
01:19:41.625 --> 01:19:43.792
and was always
helping his people.
01:19:43.792 --> 01:19:45.542
Colten was not a thief.
01:19:45.542 --> 01:19:48.375
He was a kind
and generous young man.
01:19:48.375 --> 01:19:51.083
I recommend that
the special rapporteur
01:19:51.083 --> 01:19:51.875
and the Expert Mechanism
01:19:51.875 --> 01:19:54.792
undertake a study
on the systemic racism
01:19:54.792 --> 01:19:57.000
and discrimination
against Indigenous people
01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:00.375
within the judicial
and legal systems in Canada.
01:20:00.375 --> 01:20:02.959
This study must produce
recommendations
01:20:02.959 --> 01:20:05.875
to ensure the protection
of Indigenous families,
01:20:05.875 --> 01:20:09.041
who utilize the judicial
and the legal systems.
01:20:09.041 --> 01:20:12.625
This will advance our calls
on the Canadian government
01:20:12.625 --> 01:20:14.041
to establish
a Royal Commission
01:20:14.041 --> 01:20:17.291
on the elimination of racism
in the justice system.
01:20:17.291 --> 01:20:19.792
Only a Royal Commission
has the authority
01:20:19.792 --> 01:20:24.959
to compel all involved
in this miscarriage of justice.
01:20:24.959 --> 01:20:28.834
[applause and cheering]
01:20:50.250 --> 01:20:52.875
[family chatting nearby]
01:20:56.709 --> 01:20:59.834
[sobbing]
01:21:16.041 --> 01:21:18.458
[Jade]: I felt heavy,
01:21:18.458 --> 01:21:21.792
and I felt tired,
01:21:21.792 --> 01:21:25.125
and it... it crushed me
01:21:25.125 --> 01:21:28.625
that I didn\'t want to be
at a pow wow,
01:21:28.625 --> 01:21:34.083
and I didn\'t feel the urge
to put on my moccasins,
01:21:34.083 --> 01:21:35.709
and I didn\'t have that--
01:21:35.709 --> 01:21:40.250
that passion in me
to want to dance...
01:21:44.041 --> 01:21:46.125
...and when I do dance,
01:21:46.125 --> 01:21:49.375
it\'ll be not because
I feel like I have to,
01:21:49.375 --> 01:21:51.417
but it\'ll be because I want to,
01:21:51.417 --> 01:21:54.834
and it will come from
a good place.
01:21:55.792 --> 01:22:00.625
\'Cause we\'re taught that
we don\'t dance for ourselves,
01:22:00.625 --> 01:22:01.959
we dance for others.
01:22:01.959 --> 01:22:05.000
We dance for those
who are unable to dance.
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:09.709
[singers and drummers continue]
01:22:09.709 --> 01:22:11.834
[♪♪♪]
01:22:26.750 --> 01:22:29.625
[Sheldon Wuttunee, emceeing]:
I just wanna follow up
01:22:29.625 --> 01:22:30.959
the speakers there.
01:22:30.959 --> 01:22:31.625
You know, Jade,
01:22:31.625 --> 01:22:35.041
you\'ve done a very good job
representing our people.
01:22:35.041 --> 01:22:36.625
I\'m very proud of you,
01:22:36.625 --> 01:22:38.542
and oftentimes,
that\'s what happens is,
01:22:38.542 --> 01:22:40.583
when something negative happens,
01:22:40.583 --> 01:22:42.208
that\'s when we pull together,
01:22:42.208 --> 01:22:44.625
and we pick ourselves up
as Indian people,
01:22:44.625 --> 01:22:45.917
and try and move forward,
01:22:45.917 --> 01:22:47.250
and we\'ll continue to do that,
01:22:47.250 --> 01:22:49.208
and I want to acknowledge
the family
01:22:49.208 --> 01:22:50.583
for doing that for all of us.
01:22:50.583 --> 01:22:53.750
They\'ve taught us all
a very valuable lesson,
01:22:53.750 --> 01:22:56.834
that, yes, we make
some steps forward,
01:22:56.834 --> 01:22:58.000
maybe ten steps back,
01:22:58.000 --> 01:22:59.792
but we still
have got to walk together,
01:22:59.792 --> 01:23:02.417
and take care of one another,
and love each other.
01:23:02.417 --> 01:23:04.250
So with that,
ladies and gentlemen,
01:23:04.250 --> 01:23:05.875
I thank you for the time...
01:23:05.875 --> 01:23:07.375
[crickets chirping]
01:23:07.375 --> 01:23:09.709
[Tasha, narrating]:
I grew up on a farm
01:23:09.709 --> 01:23:11.625
in Southern Saskatchewan
01:23:11.625 --> 01:23:13.291
until I was 11.
01:23:13.291 --> 01:23:16.625
My adoptive parents now live
on the family homestead
01:23:16.625 --> 01:23:19.917
that was settled
by my great-grandparents.
01:23:21.041 --> 01:23:22.709
-Hello.
-Hi!
01:23:22.709 --> 01:23:23.208
I made it.
01:23:23.208 --> 01:23:25.417
[Mac]: You made it!
Good, good, good.
01:23:25.417 --> 01:23:27.041
[chuckling]
01:23:27.041 --> 01:23:29.125
Hey, Quannah.
01:23:29.125 --> 01:23:30.000
Hi!
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:30.542
Hi. How are ya?
01:23:30.542 --> 01:23:32.792
-Good.
-Good. You\'re getting taller.
01:23:32.792 --> 01:23:34.083
Yeah.
01:23:34.959 --> 01:23:36.709
[dog barking]
01:23:36.709 --> 01:23:38.291
Hello.
01:23:38.291 --> 01:23:40.458
Who\'s that, Muff?
01:23:40.458 --> 01:23:42.291
Who\'s that, hey?
01:23:42.291 --> 01:23:44.917
[dog growling and barking]
01:23:45.291 --> 01:23:46.875
[Tasha\'s mom]: You\'re bad.
01:23:46.875 --> 01:23:48.458
Don\'t, that\'s Quannah.
01:23:48.458 --> 01:23:49.875
Hi, Mom.
01:23:49.875 --> 01:23:51.542
Hi, Tasha!
01:23:51.542 --> 01:23:52.041
Hey.
01:23:52.041 --> 01:23:54.542
[Mac]: Hey, this is
a big man\'s bike.
01:23:54.542 --> 01:23:55.417
[Tasha]: I know.
01:23:55.417 --> 01:23:56.542
Quannah\'s jealous.
01:23:56.542 --> 01:23:57.959
[Mac chuckles]:
He\'s jealous.
01:23:57.959 --> 01:23:58.291
Yeah.
01:23:58.291 --> 01:24:00.750
He thinks he\'s ready
for the bigger bike,
01:24:00.750 --> 01:24:03.333
so we\'ll get him one.
01:24:06.291 --> 01:24:08.208
[♪♪♪]
01:24:08.208 --> 01:24:11.542
[crickets chirping]
01:24:18.208 --> 01:24:22.375
My birth dad met
my adoptive parents years ago,
01:24:22.375 --> 01:24:25.041
but it\'s his first time
visiting the farm.
01:24:25.041 --> 01:24:27.750
[Albert]: A lot of people
hold rifles, you know,
01:24:27.750 --> 01:24:28.875
too close like this--
01:24:28.875 --> 01:24:29.375
[Mac]: Yeah.
01:24:29.375 --> 01:24:31.375
[Albert]: --and then
you can\'t really balance,
01:24:31.375 --> 01:24:32.875
but you always put it up,
01:24:32.875 --> 01:24:36.709
and you have more steady,
uh, control.
01:24:36.709 --> 01:24:38.875
Okay, maybe
we\'ll go through the rules
01:24:38.875 --> 01:24:40.542
of how to handle a rifle
01:24:40.542 --> 01:24:43.000
before we let you take
some shots.
01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:44.000
Sound good?
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:44.834
[Quannah]: Yeah.
01:24:44.834 --> 01:24:46.208
Okay, rule number one,
01:24:46.208 --> 01:24:50.375
always assume
the rifle is loaded,
01:24:50.375 --> 01:24:51.959
always.
01:24:51.959 --> 01:24:52.792
[Quannah]: Okay.
01:24:52.792 --> 01:24:54.500
Always assume it\'s loaded.
01:24:54.500 --> 01:24:55.417
Number two,
01:24:55.417 --> 01:24:59.208
always point this
away from people,
01:24:59.208 --> 01:25:00.291
or animals,
01:25:00.291 --> 01:25:00.792
or buildings,
01:25:00.792 --> 01:25:02.333
or anything
you don\'t want to shoot.
01:25:02.333 --> 01:25:05.750
Now, this gun
has got a safety
01:25:05.750 --> 01:25:07.125
on the trigger here.
01:25:07.125 --> 01:25:07.709
[Oskiya]: Mm-hmm.
01:25:07.709 --> 01:25:10.917
When you push this forward,
the safety is off.
01:25:13.875 --> 01:25:15.208
[pellet shoots]
01:25:15.208 --> 01:25:17.083
Oh, wow, that sounds
pretty good.
01:25:17.083 --> 01:25:19.000
-That sounded good.
-Yeah.
01:25:19.125 --> 01:25:22.041
[Mac]: He\'s just about
at the bull\'s eye.
01:25:22.041 --> 01:25:25.250
You\'ve got one here
and one just below.
01:25:25.250 --> 01:25:26.291
[Albert]: Oh, my goodness.
01:25:26.291 --> 01:25:28.083
Now, is that good shootin\'
or what?
01:25:28.083 --> 01:25:31.041
That\'s 25 yards
with a pellet gun
01:25:31.041 --> 01:25:33.500
in the wind.
01:25:39.625 --> 01:25:43.000
[Quannah]: Just waiting
for the wind to go.
01:25:44.542 --> 01:25:47.000
[pellet shoots]
01:25:49.250 --> 01:25:52.792
[Tasha]: I remember
when I was about Quannah\'s age,
01:25:52.792 --> 01:25:55.375
that you, um,
01:25:55.375 --> 01:25:58.875
in your bottom drawer
of your desk,
01:25:58.875 --> 01:26:01.875
you had some stones,
01:26:01.875 --> 01:26:06.041
and I think you said
you got some of them...
01:26:06.041 --> 01:26:08.375
down south,
01:26:08.375 --> 01:26:09.709
on that one quarter.
01:26:09.709 --> 01:26:10.709
[Grandpa]: Yeah.
01:26:10.709 --> 01:26:11.583
Yeah.
01:26:11.583 --> 01:26:15.041
I broke up
some new prairie there.
01:26:15.041 --> 01:26:16.959
I picked all the stones by hand,
01:26:16.959 --> 01:26:21.625
and I came across these,
so I saved them,
01:26:21.625 --> 01:26:25.750
and now they go to you.
01:26:29.208 --> 01:26:30.208
Don\'t know,
01:26:30.208 --> 01:26:33.625
but, hopefully,
you\'ll find out, Tasha.
01:26:33.625 --> 01:26:34.125
[Tasha]: Yeah.
01:26:34.125 --> 01:26:38.542
This is just a piece of old tree
or something, I think.
01:26:38.542 --> 01:26:39.291
Oh, yeah.
01:26:39.291 --> 01:26:40.875
[Quannah]: That\'s cool.
01:26:41.250 --> 01:26:43.375
[Tasha]:
What does it smell like?
01:26:43.375 --> 01:26:49.375
Mm... how a rock
would usually smell.
01:26:51.583 --> 01:26:52.917
I was thinking back,
01:26:52.917 --> 01:26:57.750
when I broke that prairie
down south,
01:26:57.750 --> 01:27:02.500
I could see
where there was teepee rings,
01:27:02.500 --> 01:27:04.875
stones for teepee rings,
01:27:04.875 --> 01:27:09.000
in two or three places
down there...
01:27:10.542 --> 01:27:14.083
That\'s when I kind of thought,
you know,
01:27:14.083 --> 01:27:19.583
maybe I shouldn\'t
be breaking this up...
01:27:20.875 --> 01:27:24.125
but I went ahead and done it.
01:27:24.125 --> 01:27:26.583
I grew wheat.
01:27:28.834 --> 01:27:30.834
It\'s, um...
01:27:30.834 --> 01:27:33.291
it\'s a hard time
right now, Grandpa.
01:27:33.291 --> 01:27:35.917
There\'s lots of...
01:27:37.709 --> 01:27:42.041
lots of stuff going on...
01:27:42.041 --> 01:27:47.500
Yeah, it\'s a troubled world.
01:27:47.875 --> 01:27:51.709
And that\'s why I decided
to do the film
01:27:51.709 --> 01:27:54.417
because...
01:27:54.417 --> 01:27:56.458
I knew, though,
01:27:56.458 --> 01:27:58.208
the day,
01:27:58.208 --> 01:28:00.709
days following when--
01:28:00.709 --> 01:28:02.125
when Colten was shot--
01:28:02.125 --> 01:28:05.000
that things were gonna change.
01:28:07.208 --> 01:28:09.375
I don\'t want him
to be looked at
01:28:09.375 --> 01:28:14.041
like he\'s not as important...
01:28:17.208 --> 01:28:18.542
and I\'m scared \'cause I know
01:28:18.542 --> 01:28:24.709
there\'s people out there
that that\'s how they feel.
01:28:30.333 --> 01:28:32.041
I think you\'re always
gonna find
01:28:32.041 --> 01:28:35.542
that some people
are gonna be racist,
01:28:35.542 --> 01:28:38.208
think they\'re better
than the next guy,
01:28:38.208 --> 01:28:43.208
but I... it\'s always
been that way.
01:28:43.208 --> 01:28:44.333
[Tasha]: Well, and I think, too,
01:28:44.333 --> 01:28:49.917
it\'s because a lot of it\'s
over property, you know?
01:28:49.917 --> 01:28:55.083
So, it\'s not like somebody\'s
life was in danger, you know.
01:28:56.709 --> 01:28:59.041
It\'s over stuff.
01:28:59.041 --> 01:29:07.250
Yeah, there\'s always two sides
to that story, though, Tasha.
01:29:11.792 --> 01:29:17.625
What was the reason
they were there?
01:29:18.041 --> 01:29:18.625
[Tasha]: Well.
01:29:18.625 --> 01:29:22.041
And you have something
of your own
01:29:22.041 --> 01:29:24.291
you worked hard to get.
01:29:24.291 --> 01:29:27.041
[Tasha]: Mm-hmm.
01:29:28.709 --> 01:29:33.125
How do you protect it?
01:29:33.917 --> 01:29:36.875
[Quannah]:
Not by shooting someone.
01:29:37.542 --> 01:29:41.125
[Quannah, enunciating clearly]
Not by shooting someone.
01:29:41.125 --> 01:29:45.583
No, I agree with you 100%,
but...
01:29:45.583 --> 01:29:48.208
what\'s the answer?
01:29:50.709 --> 01:29:55.291
I just want people
to understand each other better.
01:29:55.291 --> 01:29:59.709
That\'s what needs to happen.
01:30:03.208 --> 01:30:07.417
It will happen, I think.
01:30:07.417 --> 01:30:11.583
It\'ll take a long time, though.
01:30:12.709 --> 01:30:16.625
I think it\'ll take
a long time.
01:30:18.542 --> 01:30:23.542
Quannah wants to smudge.
01:30:25.417 --> 01:30:28.333
[strikes match]
01:30:41.041 --> 01:30:42.125
[Quannah]: Pass it over.
01:30:42.125 --> 01:30:43.959
Do you want
to smudge, Grandpa?
01:30:43.959 --> 01:30:45.959
So, what\'s this
supposed to do?
01:30:45.959 --> 01:30:50.917
It just helps...
clean and clear...
01:30:50.917 --> 01:30:52.917
Oh, I see.
01:30:52.917 --> 01:30:57.750
[Tasha]:
...any negative things or...
01:31:34.417 --> 01:31:36.625
And just hold onto
your balloon, yeah.
01:31:36.625 --> 01:31:38.125
So if you want to walk up,
01:31:38.125 --> 01:31:40.542
you can come up
and grab a balloon,
01:31:40.542 --> 01:31:42.750
just like Lex did, yeah.
01:31:43.542 --> 01:31:48.208
I\'d like to thank everybody
for being here today.
01:31:48.208 --> 01:31:51.458
Colten would have been 25.
01:31:51.458 --> 01:31:52.291
Um...
01:31:52.291 --> 01:31:55.375
This is his favourite holiday,
01:31:55.375 --> 01:31:57.750
so everybody...
01:31:57.750 --> 01:31:59.959
make some wishes on your balloon
01:31:59.959 --> 01:32:02.208
when you send it up
to your loved ones,
01:32:02.208 --> 01:32:06.375
and let Colten know
that he isn\'t forgotten,
01:32:06.375 --> 01:32:09.583
and today was his day.
01:32:09.583 --> 01:32:12.208
So, thank you for all coming.
01:32:12.208 --> 01:32:12.875
Hiy-hiy.
01:32:12.875 --> 01:32:15.083
[all shouting]
Happy birthday, Colten!
01:32:15.083 --> 01:32:15.959
Happy birthday!
01:32:15.959 --> 01:32:18.125
[Jace]: Okay,
one, two, three, whoo!
01:32:18.125 --> 01:32:20.250
[all shouting] Love you!
We love you!
01:32:20.250 --> 01:32:22.417
[Jace]: Go, go, go!
01:32:22.417 --> 01:32:24.417
[calling and laughing]
01:32:25.375 --> 01:32:26.417
That looks cool.
01:32:26.417 --> 01:32:27.291
[Jace chuckles] Yeah.
01:32:27.291 --> 01:32:28.792
[Eleanore]: That\'s awesome.
01:32:33.291 --> 01:32:37.041
[Jade]: I really wish you guys
had met Colten.
01:32:37.041 --> 01:32:39.083
I wish you had met Coco.
01:32:39.083 --> 01:32:42.875
I wish you got to see his smile
in person,
01:32:42.875 --> 01:32:45.709
and feel his energy,
01:32:45.709 --> 01:32:48.083
and hear his laugh,
01:32:48.083 --> 01:32:50.291
and see his bashfulness.
01:32:50.291 --> 01:32:55.041
I wish you had all had
the opportunity to meet him,
01:32:55.041 --> 01:32:59.125
and know more than
what happened to him,
01:32:59.125 --> 01:33:00.291
what happened to my family,
01:33:00.291 --> 01:33:03.709
and know more about,
not just the memories we share,
01:33:03.709 --> 01:33:05.875
but to actually know him.
01:33:05.875 --> 01:33:08.583
I wish...
I wish that for you,
01:33:08.583 --> 01:33:10.709
and I wish that for Quannah.
01:33:10.709 --> 01:33:14.709
You guys would\'ve
really liked him.
01:33:14.709 --> 01:33:18.500
[♪♪♪]
01:34:17.125 --> 01:34:21.250
[♪♪♪]
01:34:40.041 --> 01:34:42.959
[♪♪♪]
01:34:52.625 --> 01:34:56.917
♪ Oh, I pray for you at night ♪
01:34:56.917 --> 01:35:00.500
♪ As I sing and hold you tight ♪
01:35:00.500 --> 01:35:04.208
♪ Pray that you will grow into ♪
01:35:04.208 --> 01:35:07.208
♪ A man to hold onto ♪
01:35:07.208 --> 01:35:11.208
♪ And no matter paths unknown ♪
01:35:11.208 --> 01:35:14.875
♪ You\'ll find shelter
from the storm ♪
01:35:14.875 --> 01:35:22.125
♪ I pray that you will always
have a home ♪
01:35:22.125 --> 01:35:26.792
[♪♪♪]
01:35:32.458 --> 01:35:36.750
♪ Oh, I pray for you at night ♪
01:35:36.750 --> 01:35:40.375
♪ As I sing and hold you tight ♪
01:35:40.375 --> 01:35:44.375
♪ Pray that you will grow into ♪
01:35:44.375 --> 01:35:47.208
♪ A man to hold onto ♪
01:35:47.208 --> 01:35:50.834
♪ And no matter paths unknown ♪
01:35:50.834 --> 01:35:54.709
♪ You\'ll find shelter
from the storm ♪
01:35:54.709 --> 01:36:01.875
♪ I pray that you will always
have a home ♪
01:36:01.875 --> 01:36:05.583
[♪♪♪]
01:36:13.417 --> 01:36:17.041
♪ Hold onto your courage ♪
01:36:17.041 --> 01:36:20.625
♪ Hold onto your pride ♪
01:36:20.625 --> 01:36:24.291
♪ Hold onto the fire ♪
01:36:24.291 --> 01:36:27.875
♪ Burning deep inside ♪
01:36:27.875 --> 01:36:31.375
♪ Hold onto your kindness ♪
01:36:31.375 --> 01:36:35.083
♪ Fill your heart with light ♪
01:36:35.083 --> 01:36:38.875
♪ Hold onto the river ♪
01:36:38.875 --> 01:36:42.291
♪ Let it flow with might ♪
01:36:42.291 --> 01:36:45.083
[♪♪♪]
01:37:46.875 --> 01:37:51.000
♪ Oh, I pray for you at night ♪
01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:54.709
♪ As I sing and hold you tight ♪
01:37:54.709 --> 01:37:58.709
♪ Pray that you will grow into ♪
01:37:58.709 --> 01:38:01.542
♪ A man to hold onto ♪
01:38:01.542 --> 01:38:05.083
♪ And no matter paths unknown ♪
01:38:05.083 --> 01:38:09.208
♪ You\'ll find shelter
from the storm ♪
01:38:09.208 --> 01:38:16.166
♪ I pray that you will always
have a home ♪
01:38:16.166 --> 01:38:23.709
♪ Oh, I pray
that you will always... ♪
01:38:23.709 --> 01:38:29.291
♪ Have a home... ♪♪