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So, Indian Residential Schools taught you how to gamble for food, how to steal<br />

food, and that you need food!<br />

Jannica Hoskins<br />

That’s right. I remember that.<br />

Richard Jules<br />

One of the facts that I think about those schools, early on and maybe later on as<br />

well, was that they were always under funded. And if the key motive for bringing<br />

children to school was to educate them, they never had the appropriate amount<br />

of resources to hire fully qualified teachers and others.<br />

Chief Bob Joseph<br />

<strong>The</strong> children were always hungry, they were poorly clothed, and they were<br />

chronically sick.<br />

Prime Minister Macdonald was informed of this inadequate situation directly in<br />

1886 yet nothing was changed. SV p.291<br />

It was clear that the Macdonald policies were not directed toward the building of<br />

responsible native schools.<br />

Still, shall we be forgiving toward Macdonald and his government. Was his heart<br />

in the right place Did he mean well<br />

Macdonald’s Indian Policies were not founded on misguided utilitarian kindness.<br />

Make no mistake, the federal governments involvement in Residential Schools<br />

was never about doing the right thing.<br />

Macdonald did not wake up every morning and ponder how he could better help<br />

the native children. He woke up, pulled on his boots, and said, “How can I build<br />

this nation” His government, his Department of Indian Affairs (now the<br />

Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, INAC) and subsequent<br />

department leaders all ignored the suffering of these children.<br />

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