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AMOS (CANADA) - Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother's skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want to be sent away from his family, and the Canadian forest where his Algonquin tribe lived.
Legend has it they descended from the stars and landed on a vast territory in the middle of what is now the united states. the land would eventually make the osage some of the richest people in the world. that's a fancy car. >> lincolns and cadillacs were their favorites. >> the objects of racist envy. >> people were resentful. why should that dirty indian have all that money? >> and targets of manipulation, bribery, and worse. >> they -- >> they were systematic. >> everybody was in on it. >> i'm headed to oklahoma to learn more about the osage, how they became so rich -- >> the rush was on. >...
This is a story about land, wealth and murder. it is a story of a people known as the children of the middle waters. the osage. legend hasz has it hay descended from the stars. and landed on a vast territory. in the middle of what is now the united states. the land would eventually make the osage some of the richest people in the world. >> that's a fancy car. >> cadillacs and lincolns were their favorite. >> the objects of racist envy. >> people were resentful. why should that dirty indian have all that money. >> targets of manipulation. bribery, and worse. >> it was systemic. everybody was in...
Realize about canada that actually are still playing out in certain ways. >> why does canada have such a better reputation? >> pr maybe. when i was growing up, it wasn't in the history books. i felt very isolated. it was very shameful to admit you're native. one of my first memories is being called the dirty indian. this is the history of canada. i they like to idealize that didn't happen here. we have had the truth of the commission now from the first time the government has in a way apologized for the treatment of indigenous peoples in khan. >> we do more of a nobody wants to hear that crap,...
The indian act within we didn't have the ability to vote as an indigenous vote. there is a lot of thipgts that people don't raeltz about canada which are still playing out stloo why does canada have a better reputation. >> better pr. >> better pr. >> when i dou up it wasn't in the history books. i felt isolated. it was shameful to admit you are even native. one of my first memories is being called a dirty indian at the age of four. this is the history of canada. so i think a lot of times people like to i tealize that that didn't happen here, you know. so we have had the truth american reconcil...