indian problem Archives - Ontario Metis Family Records Center https://migrated.omfrc.org/tag/indian-problem/ Reconnecting Aboriginals Through History Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:05:07 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://omfrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-FLAVICON-50x50.jpg indian problem Archives - Ontario Metis Family Records Center https://migrated.omfrc.org/tag/indian-problem/ 32 32 Solving the “Indian Problem” – Assimilation Laws, Practices, and Indian Residential Schools https://omfrc.org/solving-indian-problem-indian-residential-schools/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:47:52 +0000 https://omfrc.org/?p=938 By OMFRC Member D’Arcy Rheault – Originally Published as a Special Edition of Feathers In the Wind, 2012 The 1910 “History of Canada” text book for Ontario Public Schools taught young Canadians that: “All Indians were superstitious, having strange ideas about nature. They thought that birds, beasts…were like men. Thus an Indian has been known […]

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