Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentary
In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant “Canadian” culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or forcibly removed from their homes
Residential schools were part of an extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.
Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, was “picked up” and taken to the school along with four other children as they walked along a public road to visit his grandmother.
I’m ashamed to say I’m Canadian because of what my government has done.
Ron Short, former RCMP officer
“They didn’t put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that,” he explains. “It was in the routine of the place.
“You didn’t speak anything but English. You went to the white man’s school. You went to the white man’s church. You wore white mens’ clothes. All those were built in. It wasn’t a classroom-type lecture. It was ingrained in the system.”
In 2008, the Canadian government launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which finally enabled survivors to give their testimonies on life in the residential schools. Abuse – mental, physical and sexual – was rife and, although research and statistics vary, it is estimated that 6,000 children died in these schools. Some evidence puts the casualties at three times that number.
After its formation, the TRC travelled around Canada for six years, gathering testimony from thousands who bore witness to the tragedies of the residential schools. Numerous “Aboriginal healing” programmes were put in place to help those affected to move on with their lives.
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Never again
There ought to be a Resident Evil game based on this.
There will be a pay back time for their bad Karma 🤢
Abuse until death mind boggling
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Didn’t the Europeans also colonize india ? And similarity oppress and rob the native population
Catholics started this I’m believer and love GOD and my lord JESUS but religions have killed so meny people .has nothing to do with God MANS ran religion y I tell people in sperital religions Ben awfull sense beginning of man .the jews kill GOD only son .Catholics let all thease Indians sons die young.
I have a suspicion the triple G compasses club was the one who came up with the genocidal “Gold, Glory and Gospel” slogan. The colonizers built their msonic lodges everywhere they invaded, whether in Asia, Africa or America continents.
Catholics are against these G compasses club no?
It’s not a theory because their msonic buildings are physical proofs you can see with your eyes. What are these lodges doing in non-english speaking regions? Still active until today. It’s creepy all history textbooks ignore this pattern in colonialism. That these msonic lodges built by the colonizers are still active until today.
That’s why I never blamed the Christians nor the Europeans. I narrowed it down to the G compasses club. Now they put all Abrahamic holy books in their lodges claiming to be supportive of all religions. But it is what they have been doing for centuries. Hiding their G compasses club behind religions.
EVERY WHERE IN THE WORLD , ANGLOSAXONS KILL AND TAKE IT’S SIMPLE AND THEN THEY PRETEND NOTHING HAPENNED
its not “anglo saxons” its Canadian and British
They All raped, plundered & pillaged the people, children, land, spirit & everything they touched,,,, the very definition of SATANIC!
It’s absolutely insane how the government ways this didn’t happen. And try to push it away
White Cannucks are an abomination with 0 accountability for their ongoing criminal actions against Indigenous and Immigrants. Can’t stop the truth. The wrath is and will get you, you can’t escape it! Your racism and oppression is finally affecting you, the perpetrators.
What have you, the RCMP done? Time and time again you watch persecution and racist charged crimes, hate crimes and you do NOTHING. Typical Cannuck, lots of yap 0 action for proper justice. Oen pockets too heavily lined.
Remember this was enacted by the Canadian government – and legitimized by the Church! Remember this when you pay taxes or make a donation on Sundays. It’s hard to imagine having you children taken from you without defending them with your very life! It would be wise to remember that history has a way of repeating itself!
buried children lies
buried babies too, inside the walls of that Spanish building
The government is responsible for so much!
O my God , child abuse is devastating , we come to this world so innocent , instead of being celebrated by love , we are thrown to evil , so as it celebrates by us .
People telling me don’t search for sad story , but I can’t , I am human , every story around the world resonates with my story , with my innocence , with my human nature .
The humiliation that felt all those years , is strong , that replace any feeling in future , the guilt , the shame is awful for any child , I wish I can go back in the past and save them , and old man now apologising for not being the father that he should have been , he knows that children need his full love and care , but he is hurt , from the past ,so he is suffering double , his hurt and his children’s hurt .
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A’HO MY FAMILY!!!
SURE WISH THE US WOULD GET ONBOARD.
Settler colonialism was wrong then and it is still wrong today.
It is consistent though, the nations that committed genocide against their indigenous are actively supporting the 21st century apartheid settler colonialism, the lsraeli occupation of Palestine.
I find it funny in a sense, our acceptance of TJRCs everywhere such atrocities happened, eg south Africa, in reality that’s the way they blow soft wind on the wounds of their victims to lull them, it’s absurd.
that school need dark secret Canada so sad. children dead in that school.
It was so good that they ran away in winter alone in the woods missing Mamma and Pappa and family . By male and female Priests and Reprobate Pigs. Who molested raped and murdered those children and missing women.Their Cries still call out. A disgrace to humanity. Anathema.
I will never forget. The instant cold in my blood. The screaming. F you Canada for how you treated Native Indians.
We are spirits inhabiting a physical body to experience this physical realm. When we “die” only our physical body dies. We live on in spirit with the same personality and issues that we had the second before you slaughtered us. We look on you in confusion. We can’t get your attention. We wonder why did you break us apart from our families, from our daily activity, from our friends, from our place. Why? What have we done to you? We feel cold. We still want to help you. Why do you rape your land? Why do you not honour your gifts and just take everything from mother nature? We don’t understand this. You trade things for spirit. Why? What have you got to gain? We cry for your loss, not just ours.
Why is International Criminal Court not involved? How about My Lay massacre? Double standards?! ICC is a western tool of imperialism!
In the South African schools the whites are doing the same thing to those children
BS. South Africa is a failed state turning in to Mad Max because the whites were forced out of power decades ago.
@Anonymous T. Jones what happened in south Africa will happen everywhere soon enough. Eventually all whites will be forced to return back to their native land
Fergus Falls State hospital- graves-info I discovered that some People were buried around perimeter in UNmarked graves w/a #’d peg only=the# on a card-map noted who was buried there info- It made me think being same period of time=nuns/schools did same + perphaps its a card map you may look for the kids?
I am so sorry you had to leave your mother and stay in this place. Im so sorry for all of you poor babies.
4:17 its like they were told to make circles over and over on top of each other. Just an assignment designed to make them busy and never resting
10:50 Yes sir, u did have a choice. Its called getting another job, one which u weren’t kidnapping children!!!
14:05 look at all those tiny black round eyes aligned horizontally. It looks bizarre and sad.
14:05 the 2nd up from the bottom and two over from the left, that kids face looks edited on
16:27 the teacher looks like Roger from American Dad
39:59-40:16
42:25-43:11
Excellent video.
Excellent video.
JUSTICE IS COMING.
WOW, Canada’s Holocaust😢 How Horrible
School is literally a holocaust! – zoomie
How can someone forgive when their more that needs to be none.before truth and reconciliation to move forward
Canada was built on lies, rape, assault, racism and murder. That’s what Canada means to me.
To immigrants Canada is a land of opportunity. Especially to those coming from third world countries.
So leave.
Nothing about the Scottish and Irish children getting slapped around for speaking Irish/Gaelic ? Notice that we got French Schools but no Irish/Gaelic in Canada. Nothing about the unmarked graves of Scots and Irish? Want an example? The old burial grounds, university ave, Charlottetown, PEI, LOTS of unmarked scottish graves. Irish graves around the corner in the other cemetery, same deal. NOT A WORD on that.
That’s different you see.
I am disgusted on the American an Canadian governments but, most of all, absolutely disturbed aand furious at the Catholic Churches
That was the Canadian government then not now.
@Empty had That have no ability to distinguish things. To them, the white teenager at Starbucks who made their drink is just as culpable as someone who lived three centuries ago.
@Anonymous T. Jones Exactly some people are complete bafoons especially the woke left.
“As I watched the entire documentary about the residential school in the past, my heart was ripped apart for those poor and broken victims: the children and their families. I pray that wherever they are now, they receive the justice and peace they deserve, especially for those lost souls who were never heard. Thank you to those who had the courage to speak the truth, for it is a history that will never be forgotten and should never be repeated. Today’s government should learn to consider humanity and the consequences before implementing any programs or projects.”
I grew up in Kamloops. I know where chidren’s body’s are burried from the Rez school. In the apple orchards down by the river, as well as some taken out in boats at night and dropped in the Thompson river. Cops won’t do anything about it.
When you cannot speak your native language anymore,
All you are ever concentrating on is not speaking your native language.
Even while you are being quiet anyways
The boilers, are where I’d suspect their machinations would end. Plus, all of their clothes, paperwork, that shows that they were there, and, most importantly, the children’s bodies.
go bk on them sue them
THEY SHOULD GO THERE N BE TREATED LIKE A DOG SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT
Dirty filthy disgusting priests….
It makes me wonder how JEHOVAH GOD ALMIGHTY will undo ALL of this hurt and pain and unjustice done by the churches of Christendom in the name of Jesus.
We were a nation of 88.1 million Aboriginal strong. Remember that before you let a person tell you your spirits history.
no
I’m just starting this video but I have heard many stories. Above all else. The government the churches the missionaries and the staff of all these should be held accountable.
Canada just like the United States. All they did was spread their evil. The government the churches the missionaries and the staff should all be held accountable. They should look into all of their backgrounds because I’m sure they spread their evil in their homes neighborhoods communities and their churches. They evil all around that continues still today
Yeah this proves that white people in canada deserve to be ethnically replaced by indians and chinese. Just give it 3 more decades.
No it doesn’t. People today are not responsible for what happened in the past.
@Anonymous T. Jones yes they are responsible. Everyone is responsible for the deeds of their ancestors. I would have said otherwise if the white people of today didn’t continue to reap the benefits of colonization of their ancestors like the stolen lands, resources and the ethnic imposition of whites by brutally murdering the natives.
A 100 year genocide to take their land.
인간들이 왜 이렇게 악하냐 정말
I know you’re White but please accept the truth that your ancestor brought lot’s of destruction upon this world, in the east & the west especially toward the indigenous people America, Canada , Australia even Southeast Asia were destroy & left a big scar towards everybody. not only that the African were bullied inhumanly. What a shame
It’s like they have an agenda against minorities! You forgot Indians to
is this the truth claim
Why isn’t anyone reaching out to boarding school survivors
I don’t see them forcing Mexican,black,chinese kids to stop speaking their language and placing the kids in boarding school so yes it’s very racist
The Natives were literally uncivilized & tribal. They had no concept of gaining knowledge that can transform, develop, and uplift a country. They only cared about gathering around, sacrificing pigs, making loud noises and getting drunk.
I’m a daughter of a residential school survivor if anyone wants to ask me something
They kidnapped native children and then raped them all using God’s name. This is pure evil. To hear that man say he was raped made me so angry. I’m thankful most of those monsters are dead
The children and family services is continuing the cycle of abuse by ripping native children away.
I just came to Canada as an Asian migrant. This story brings me to tears. I’ve always looked up to these countries as progressive, democratic and “the land of opportunity”. In the end, it is a heartbreaking realization that all these predominantly white countries are historically usurpers and abusers, their success built on theft and exploitation of other nations. I dont think there are any reparations that they can do to make it right. Up to now, the exploitation continues by relegating blue collar, minimum wage jobs to migrants. WE are all migrants, they are not superior in skill just because of their race. This generational white washing is a disease that is hard to heal.
Go back then if you don’t appreciate it.
How is this not a crime against humanity?
Innocent Children💔
Racists: All lives matter.
Racists: Save the children.
Also racists: No, not those!
I’m surprised you could type that with all the thunderous applause in your head.
All christian schools all over the world needs to be controlled for graves.
Because this must have been going on in South America, Africa and Asia.
All organized religions had boarding schools. Not just Catholics.
they were all hired by the government
Hitler modeled his concentration camps after Indian Boarding schools. Trump suggested opening Indian boarding schools again referring to The Standing Rock Protesters.
Bullshit, don’t use our Native identity to spread your far-leftist lies.
This ain’t been on for 5 mins and I need a tissue I’m also half native but my family had been in the District of Columbia for years
Jesus is joke
My heart is broken for the families.
This was hard to watch😢
When will aljihadzeera report on the thousands of genocidal actions committed worldwide by ISLAM . hypocrisy in the highest level . Currently happening in Armenia.
What u talking about these kids were raped by the Canadian government and religious sect..
While I’m a mixed race Canadian, having Scottish, Swiss, German, Irish, and Mi’kmaq ancestries, the Native Residential Schools effected me on a personal note, and here’s why.
My ex-girlfriend, Clara, a Sahtu originally from the Deline First Nation in the Northwest Territories, had both of their parents who have substance abuse problems.
Her disabilities, including mild Autism and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, were a result of her parents drinking while the mom was pregnant.
At a young age, the Northwest Territories Government had to take Clara out of her community, and sent her to a group home in Yellowknife.
Her parents substance abuse problems were likely caused by the Native Residential School System which attempted to assimilate native children into Euro Canadian culture.
These children were not allowed to practice their culture, speak their indigenous language, play traditional music, or even play traditional sports. Those caught would get the strap, tortured, locked to a room.
Children in these schools were also subjected to brainwashing tactics, exposed to slave like conditions as they were malnourished and not given proper medical treatment.
In my hometown, Halifax (also known as Kjipuktuk or Chebucto), the Atlantic Canadian major city was subjected to its dark past as the city’s founder, Edward Cornwallis, became vilified as a result of his plan to put a bounty on the Mi’kmaq people. Now the city is eliminating references to the city’s founder. Even his statues are removed and schools or buildings named after him were changed.
It’s definitely NOT a secret and residential schools were common in over 30 of the 90 countries with Indigenous communities. Countries such as Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, China, and Russia, which have given zero compensation.
Canada has given the highest compensation to Indigenous communities of any country.
Canada has given over $5 billion in compensation, Australia $3 Billion, USA $1 Billion, New Zealand $1 Billion
Canada has also given the largest land mass to Indigenous communities.
Canada also has the largest budget of $10 Billion annual budget to help Indigenous communities.
Canada also allocates the largest percentage of the country’s to help Indigenous communities 2.48%.
Canada has one of the lowest percentages of Indigenous populations of the 90 countries 4.9%
Nothing will compensate for the loss of indigenous culture and knowledge.
@Lana Yes, that’s why Canadian taxpayers need to stop paying $60 to the TRC and $280 million to the scumbag lawyers.
The indigenous in USA only paid their lawyers $45 million
@Lana I agree. That’s why Canadian Tax payers should stop all payments. The $5 billion paid is enough.
@DaveIsTrading Amazing how you took the time to learn all those figures and then tried to play the victim. Sad that there are still people like you who give Conservatives a bad name with their complete ignorance and I hate to say it, open racism.
You could keep your money if you pressured the government to honor treaties and land agreements from 200 years ago. Then you could play the victim.
@perry roberts It’s not sad at all and happy share the facts.
US and CDN Natives have many scams – 1) they are poor 2) need clean drinking water 3) Unmarked graves.
130 school in Canada 150,000 students
10% indigenous staff
USA 350 schools
150,000 students
Zero human remains found
The orange shirt lady said Nuns took away her shirt. There were no Nuns at that school the 1 year she was there.
It has been 3 years since the stone age tribes and their advocates went around screaming that Canada had caused the deaths of 1000’s of children at the residential schools. Yet 3 years after that fact and millions of dollars spent not one shred of empirical evidence has been found to justify these horrific claims, and there for one has to conclude that they were and continue to be false.
The stone age tribes scream genocide yet again have no imperial proof as they pick and chose their way through history totally ignoring the period of time for all people. Their genocide claim marginalizes those people who have suffered true genocide against them, the Armenians of 1915 – 1916 and those who suffered under the holocaust, are examples unfortunately history presents many others as well.
Any sane individual would there by conclude that the stone age tribe’s claims have been and continue to be false from the start with no imperial evidence to back them up.
This is just another scam for money, over and above the 20 billion a year plus the 20 billion over 5 years top up they have been given.
Their continue false narrative drastically marginalizes victims of true genericide.
The Dorchester Review
They Were Not Forced
New York Post
No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves
New York Post
Biggest fake news story in Canada’: Kamloops mass grave debunked by
academics
Daily Mail
Alleged mass grave of i.digenous children at Catholic schools across Canada contains NO BODIES, it’s proof the stories were fabricated
The National Post
The year of the graves: World’s media got it wrong on residential school
graves
The Fraser Institute
Facts about .boriginal funding in Canada
The Western Standard
Unmarked graves claim reach farce level
This is why I’ll never trust the government
A classis cases of White Europeans genocide the Asian Tribal living in Americas, and they are got away.
It’s crazy how violent Christian Europeans were
UNBELIEVABLE
🧡Every Child Matters🧡💔
We hear a lot about Residential schools and the lingering generational traumas caused by colonialism then, now.
TRUTH: since 2010, September 28th has been National British Home Child Day in Canada.
But do most Canadians (including Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit) know about the Home Children?
No.
Has a seemingly endless amount of money, time, focus, and — in the resentful opinions of some (including Canadians of all faiths, cultures, and creeds) who are unaware of the Home Children — PANDERING to a specific group, seeking/demanding reconciliation — have these ALSO been directed to and upon those who were British/Irish Home Children or their descendants?
No.
100,000+ children shipped to Canada from Britain and Ireland—many suffering abuses, enslavement, rape, starvation, malnutrition, dehumanization, and death. There are unmarked graves for these children, too. (Just like there are for Barnardo Home children and unwed mothers/babies/children at homes for unwed mothers in Ireland—babies left in the cold to die, disposed of in septic tanks.)
AWFUL and HORRIFIC things happened to caucasian children, too. 100,000+ children were sent to Canada basically as slave labour—removed from WORKHOUSES and SLUMS of Britain and Ireland—orphaned “street rats” or … ALSO taken from their POOR, low-class families … SENT OVERSEAS, often without the permission or knowledge of parents (who’d thought government-run homes for destitute children were better than starving in slums or the brutality of Victorian workhouses).
Separated from their families, siblings and friends; isolated. Thousands of miles away from home, living in Canada. Thousands of other British and Irish children were also sent to Australia and New Zealand, too.
There was unspeakable trauma that influenced generations of people whose families stemmed from the Home Children system. Add wartime service to the traumas = PTSD, alcohol addiction, abuse of spouses and offspring; dysfunction, pain, FASD, homelessness, suicides …
10% of the Canadian population is a result of the Home Children. Likewise, the growth and development of Canadian agriculture and industry.
The TRUTH of the painful past isn’t exclusive to Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit peoples of Canada.
But, like the harms of Indian Residential schools were swept under the carpet (for MANY years), leaving Canadians ignorant of what their gov’t and churches did to Indigenous people … the story of the Home Children has ALSO been swept under the carpet, with millions of Canadians in the dark about atrocities committed upon non-Indigenous children (and their families), too. (something similar happened to my Grandad in England)
Different, but the same.
Every🧡💔Child🇬🇧🇮🇪 Matters🇨🇦
Learn your history, Canada.
A lot of pain, suffering, trauma, sacrifice, loss, and HARD WORK have influenced the building of this country. The TRUTH is painful and horrific. ACCOUNTABILITY for everyone affected by politicians, churches, and societies: is important.
At times, it appears seemingly exclusive to Indigenous peoples/Residential School survivors. (How about those affected as Home Children? Japanese Internment Camps? The Komagata Moru ripple effects?)
Should others disagree with how the gov’t *reconcile$* and focuse$ on Residential School horrors and the legacies perpetuated (sometimes viewed by some as seemingly coddling, in some instances) … having a different opinion (not agreeing with the focus on financial directives of the gov’t) = “racism”, “ignorance”, perpetuating/supporting genocide, or other negative connotations, fuelling the neverending blame game.
How is RECONCILIATION truly possible, if ONLY a seemingly exclusive group of Canadians (who were terribly mistreated and affected!) are focused upon — ad nauseam at times, in the eyes of some/others (including non-white Canadians), breeding resentment FOR those focused upon, seemingly pandered to?
But the painful, gross, shameful histories of others in Canada (who ALSO experienced atrocious treatment by the same governments and churches) have not received nor expect ongoing acknowledgement of or reconciliations for acts and decisions made in the past.
And I say this as a person who’s worked with/for Indigenous non-profit agencies and their projects to improve circumstances in the community/region we live. This includes working and having sincere friendships with some who are survivors of Residential Schools in BC, as well as their families.
This exercise in national self flagellation over alleged wrongs suffered residential schools students has been going on now for 3 years. GROUND PENETRATING RADAR HAS LIMITATIONS. “ANOMALIES” DO NOT EQUAL MASS GRAVES. ONLY A DIG WILL DETERMINE THE RESULT WITH CERTAINTY. WHERE IS THE HARD EVIDENCE FROM THE KAMLOOPS SITE? The perpetrators of this fraud need to be charged, tried, convicted and and thrown into jail.
You should take time and learn the basic facts of this story. The investigation has all been stopped by the RCMP by orders from Ottawa. Because reserves and the land that these schools are on federal land, no excavation is allowed without consent from the Canadian government. There have been hundreds of graves identified by GPR in the limited time that investigators were allowed to use it but there has yet to be permission to disturb the ground on any site.
So your ignorant comment proves that people are uneducated and don’t know anything about Native history or Native life today.
Born in 1992 and me and my family are largely affected by this to this day. I was also taken into foster care a few times growing up. It broke my moms heart and made her go deeper into addiction. Not only that but it affected my whole family. And yes it makes you feel very very lonely. My mother passed away from overdose from a long long battle with alcohol and drugs in 2021 and have family in active addiction. This is what they wanted, for it to be passed down to the next gen and so on. It took me many years to figure out I am living this generational trauma. When ppl say “oh get over it, it happened a long time ago” they don’t understand how it’s affecting us in the present. Not only this but the many many ways in which the government and colonizers committed genocide and has and is still oppressing indigenous in this country in 2023. I am still healing from my childhood. But I am proud to say I know my culture and was fortunate to learn a lot. And it has helped me in my healing journey. Indigenous ceremony, family and community is all about love and learning how to be a good person, how to heal emotionally so we can be emotionally intelligent. They tried to break us but WE ARE STILL HERE.
All indigenous ppl want is for actions to come now. We heard enoigh talking aboit how they are “going to make things right”. Start by helping FN people and community who needs it the most. There are reserves that don’t even have running water in a 1st world country. It breaks my heart
Great. Now do a story of how Qatar is treating their migrants lately
I found out about the schools as a young adult. Later I found out about te school were force, its been 10 years about some murders.
I was raise catholic, I left that dirty church when I found out about the war orphans after WW2. How they work children to death building a catholic buildings. Starving the children, and burying the dead children in the stones. I was so shock. When I shared this with other Catholics, I was and still Surprise they continue to be apart of Satan’s church. I have no respect for devil followers.
The Church was hired by the government
No one can make every thing right . Stop milking it . Move on and be glad you can read and write and speak English .
are yu like the rest of the media that just wants to keep the narrative going of mass graves, it’s like they just want to keep the lie going . No human remains have been found.
Another episode of the genocide the „honoranble“ western „culture“ has committed with these really honorable people.
THE GREAT CANADIAN Residential School HOAX
It’s been 3 years and NO BODIES. 3 years and NO SECRET GRAVES. 3 years and NO PROOF OF ANY KIND! Ha ha ha on Canada. SUCKERED YOU into paying MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of dollars! LOL
Since examination of what was claimed to be graves turned out to be a hoax, will Canada apologize to the Pope?
and now candian government taking money out from college “school system” from “foreign students”.
thanks you tube and Al Jazeera. Been watching alot of truth on Youtube, since the gov’t of canada told mr facebook to stop allowing the truth to be shared
American, Canadian , Austrians are killed the most of natives in the land. Even they’re children,
That’s the fact .
No bodies found. It was bull. Taking them from families was wrong but there are many that speak the opposite. They enjoyed their time at school and said they finally ate well.
Ain’t no secret 😢
This was all fake news. They just assumed there was mass graves, and the media ran with it. They never did any digging after checking with the ground penetrating radar. Now that they have dug, surprise surprise, theres no mass graves. Just rocks and nails, and glass.