Jimmy Papatie, just five years old, clutched at his grandmother's skirt, his face bathed in tears. He did not want to get on the bus. He did not want to be sent away from his family, and the Canadian forest where his Algonquin tribe lived. But a police officer shoved his grandmother and grabbed the child. A few minutes later, he was herded onto the bus with other indigenous children, some of the 150,000 indigenous children who were ripped from their families and placed in 139 schools meant to forcibly assimilate them into Canadian "culture" -- in other words, strip them of their native traditions. "They put in place an assimilation program, plain and simple. It is a genocide. What we experienced back then, today we call it a genocide," says Papatie years after his ordeal. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES