This documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools...
UNREPENTANT: KEVIN ANNETT AND CANADA'S GENOCIDE (documentary - 90 minutes)
Statement of Harry Wilson, age 54, Hesquait nation, Survivor of United Church's Alberni Indian Residential School (1959-1967);
Witness to the discovery of a corpse at same school;
Plaintiff against the United Church 1998-2000 (editor's italics)
My name is Harry Wilson. I went to the Port Alberni residential school and found the dead body of a young native girl there in 1967, right outside Caldwell Hall, she was from Prince Rupert, sixteen, all covered in blood with no clothes on. I got raped with a plunger by Mr.Plint and Mr. Andrews the Principal and they put me in a hospital in Nanaimo after I reported the girl's body, a padded cell like, I was in there for months and they had me on drugs there and did electric shocks to my head.
Right now I am homeless and live where I can on Hastings Street (in Vancouver). There's lots of my friends down here too, they all went to Alberni school and a lot of them are dying from alcohol and diabetes.
I am sick and disgusted with how the United Church has gotten away with the murder of my people. They get the government to throw a bit of money at us and think that gets them off the hook for murder. I am also disgusted with the picture of the native boy on that church's website (B.C. Conference). They raped and killed lots of kids like him and they don't even say where these kids are buried, like the girl I found. So what gives them the right to use our picture like that? I want them to take it off their website, they should be ashamed.
I got compensation money in 2000 but it's all gone now and I'm told if I talk about me finding the girl's body anymore I can go to jail*. Mostly I live off the bottles and cans I get out of garbage cans along Hastings. But my lawyer made over $100,000 off me.
I want the United Church put on trial for all the kids they killed at Alberni. I think their top boss should be in jail and until he is I don't think there's any justice.