This is a very important video to watch, but also a very difficult one to watch. It is about a Reverend from the United Church in Port Alberni, BC who spoke out against the atrocities the church had (and still does) committed during residential school. He was fired without cause and has been harassed ever since.
**WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY - 2006 LOS ANGELES INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL. **WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR for an INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY - 2006 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. (excerpt) "...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..." www.video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6637396204037343133&ei=wfNtS7GlMaqIqAOQl_TIBg&q=genocide&hl=en&view=3#
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