Michelle Sterling is an author, researcher, columnist, and blogger, and she is also a repeat guest on The Empower Hour. In this episode, she talks about her new mini documentary, Bitter Roots of Sugarcane: Exposing Native Activists, and her work on the St. Joseph's Indian Residential School documentary.
00:05:06.020But it is based just on a hill of lies.
00:05:09.100And I'm going to ask our viewers, the knee-jerk reaction has been from some who have fallen deeply into the government's scenario of the victimhood of the natives over these last decades.
00:05:26.120Many people don't want to now turn around and hear there's another side to this story.
00:05:30.680And why the government has been weaving this web of lies and using natives and exploiting them, actually, and using them as pawns to advance their agenda.
00:05:41.840And, I mean, we're fighting hard on behalf of the natives.
00:05:46.460I mean, there are activists, there are globalists behind this agenda, just like they are behind climate change,
00:05:51.820just like they are about the invasion of mass immigrants from nations that are violent.
00:05:57.880And everything is being planned and strategized and laid out.
00:06:02.280And this is just one level of that attack.
00:06:05.020So I'm going to ask our viewers, rather than the knee-jerk reaction to reject the information that Michelle is going to provide,
00:10:17.000I was reading about one interesting story where a ship had come from Europe and they had beheaded, the natives had beheaded everyone on the ship except for two men.
00:10:33.500So we have to be very careful that 150 years later or more, when people begin to retell the story, not based on history and facts, that, you know, it's obviously going to lead down a wrong path.
00:10:51.760And it is not out of disrespect for anybody.
00:10:54.380It's not to say there wasn't harm done.
00:10:57.420There is in every culture and we came in signing treaties.
00:11:02.880We didn't come in beheading and raping, pillaging and murdering people.
00:11:07.320And so we need to put a perspective on it.
00:11:10.380And when we come now, hundreds of billions of dollars had been paid out.
00:11:13.540And the last thing I'll say before turning it over is that the people paying for this right now are Canadians, Canadian taxpayers who have done no harm to the Indigenous community.
00:11:26.100And what most people, there's resentment growing regarding this.
00:11:31.360This is unsustainable, the amount of money that's being paid out.
00:12:45.900In my background, I am a filmmaker and television producer.
00:12:51.060So, when I saw it, I knew there were a number of things wrong.
00:12:56.180I also write a lot about Canadian history and I saw many of the things in the film that were incorrect.
00:13:03.600So, I want to also thank my colleague, Nina Green, for all of her amazing detailed research.
00:13:10.240But let me walk you through a bit of an overview.
00:13:13.780And then I also want to show you, toward the end, why this matters so much.
00:13:20.300Because there's a new report out from Kimberly Murray, the special interlocutor on missing children and unmarked graves related to Indian residential schools.
00:13:34.160And this report is going to have geopolitical consequences for Canada.
00:13:39.240And this film, Sugarcane, would be probably used as evidence to support the claims in that report.
00:16:51.760And you can see that between Williams Lake and Canham Lake Reserve, it's about an hour and a half drive.
00:16:58.140There's also another community there called Alkali Lake.
00:17:01.600And it was famous in the 1960s, 70s, and was written up about in 1987 in the LA Times because 100% of the people in the town, including children, were alcoholics.
00:17:18.880And it was called Alcohol Lake by the locals.
00:17:25.540And alcohol is a feature of the lives of the people in Sugarcane, but it's hardly mentioned in the film.
00:17:33.240So, about a half a year after the claim of mass graves and human remains at Kamloops, the Williams Lake First Nation came out with 93 as our number.
00:17:49.840So, the film Sugarcane essentially documents the Williams Lake First Nation search for missing children.
00:17:57.580And it also weaves together a father-son story of reconciliation.
00:18:02.020And it also blood libels the Roman Catholic Church and Canadian history.
00:18:15.920And I picked the review from the Christian Science Monitor because Christian Science Monitor has a motto to do no harm to anyone.
00:18:25.340And, of course, a film critic, especially if they're watching a film distributed by National Geographic,
00:18:30.880would never think that they'd have to fact-check the film.
00:18:35.160They just assumed that National Geographic did that.
00:18:38.800But here's the key points that the Christian Monitor reviewer had to say.
00:18:46.440That the, first of all, the filmmakers are a veteran investigative journalist and a celebrated writer whose estranged father, Ed Archie Noyscat, is an accomplished sculptor who struggled with alcoholism.
00:19:01.380The film's, the documentary's furious emotional center is the disclosure of Ed's secretive birth at the St. Joseph's Mission Residential School,
00:19:14.440where he was subsequently abused to a mother who was raped by a priest.
00:19:20.460And only the chance discovery of the newborn by a milkman saved him from the infanticide that befell other such unwanted babies.
00:22:16.280And I don't even know if the filmmakers actually had her permission to tell this story in the way they did.
00:22:24.320Because we never actually see an interview with her.
00:22:28.260And I'm not going to spoil the ending of the film for you.
00:22:31.280But to me, it just tore my heart apart.
00:22:35.260But the point is, the father was Ray Peters, not a priest.
00:22:40.140So Sugarcane presents a story wherein viewers conclude that priests at St. Joseph's Indian Residential School impregnated students and incinerated their unwanted babies in the school's garbage burner.
00:22:56.880That this infanticide was systemic and that Ed Archie Noisecat was the only lucky survivor, thanks to the dairyman who found him.
00:23:09.100There was a priest at St. Joseph's Indian Residential School in the 1960s who broke his vows and had an affair with a 22-year-old seamstress employee.
00:23:24.280This was a consensual relationship, even though it was inappropriate, both because he broke his vows and also because she was an employee of the schools.
00:23:34.760And therefore, in an unbalanced power relationship with him.
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