Imagine a world where everyone lives in harmony. A world where square miles of farmland are given to settlers in exchange for them agreeing to move there. A world of freedom, laws, and opportunity.
That world is Canada, then and now.
Unknown to the world and its citizens, that same government waged a genocidal war against its Indigenous peoples—never granting them ownership of land they freely gave to European settlers. A war that was fought in residential schools as they stripped Indigenous peoples of their language, culture, and pride. So successful was this method that Adolf Hitler used it as the model for his own concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
This is the story of a young boy growing up in that world, determined to be a man in a system that only saw him as an Indian.
Based on the truth.
Hebu wazia ulimwengu ambapo kila mtu anaishi kwa upatano. Ulimwengu ambapo maili za mraba za mashamba hutolewa kwa wahamiaji ili waweze kukubali kuhamia huko. Ulimwengu wa uhuru, sheria, na fursa. Ulimwengu huo ni Kanada, wakati huo na sasa. Bila kujulikana kwa ulimwengu na raia wake, serikali hiyo hiyo ilianzisha vita vya mauaji dhidi ya watu wake wa asili - bila kuwapa umiliki wa ardhi waliyotoa kwa uhuru kwa wahamiaji wa Ulaya. Vita hivyo vilipiganwa katika shule za makazi huku vikiondoa lugha, utamaduni, na kiburi cha wenyeji. Njia hiyo ilifanikiwa sana hivi kwamba Adolf Hitler aliitumia kama kielelezo cha kambi zake za mateso katika Ujerumani ya Nazi. Hii ni hadithi ya mvulana mdogo akikua katika ulimwengu huo, ameshawishiwa kuwa mtu katika mfumo ambao ulimwona kama Kihindi tu. Kulingana na ukweli.