by Admin | Jun 26, 2017 | Member Articles
Reposted with permission from Matthew Hawley, OMFRC Member Richard Pratt, the founder and first superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, believed that the goal of Indian education was to “kill the Indian in him, to save the man (Peterson).”...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Member Articles
~By OMFRC Member Darl Sutherland. Seen previously in the 2012 Special Edition Newsletter Residential schools were seen by the Canadian government as a way to civilize the native population and keep their children from continuing in their native traditions. In 1895...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Member Articles, Metis History
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...
