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The history • 171Library and Archives Canada, volume 6332, file 661-1, part 2, J. P. B. Ostrander to IndianAffairs Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, 12 August 1949. [RLS-000512-0000]535. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6187, file 461-1, part 2, Mr. Paget toMr. Ferrier, 21 August 1928. [CJC-001354]536. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6254, file 575-10, part 1, A. G. Smithto Secretary, Indian Affairs, 29 December 1936. [BIR-002631]537. For an example of a request for an investigation into a death, see: TRC, NRA, Library andArchives Canada, RG10, volume 6332, file 661-1, part 2, Garnet Neff to T. G. Murphy, 26 January1935; [RLS-000366-0001] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG29, volume 2917,file 851-1-A673, part 1, Memorandum to Mr. McLean, 13 January 1914. [NPC-603178] For anexample of a complaint regarding discipline, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada,RG10, volume 6200, file 466-1, part 3, H. H. Craig to H. A. Snell, 29 July 1937. [MSC-000080-0001] For an example of working on behalf of an injured student, see: TRC, NRA, Library andArchives Canada, RG10, volume 6327, file 660-1, part 3, William Hall to Indian Affairs, 30April 1936. [PLD-000746] For an example of seeking a discharge, see: TRC, NRA, Library andArchives Canada, volume 12333, box 19, part 1, 1936–1939, NAC, J. D. Caldwell to [Severed],16 March 1939. [KUP-004496]538. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa, RG85, volume 1505, file 600-1-1, part 1,N.W.T. – General Policy File – Education and Schools, 1905–1944, Extract From Act. Sgt. G. T.Makinson’s Report-Resolution, N.W.T., 3 July 1937. [FRU-010059]539. Cuthand, “Native Peoples,” 382–383; Kulchyski, “Considerable Unrest,” 100.540. Goodwill and Sluman, John Tootoosis, 155.541. Goodwill and Sluman, John Tootoosis, 156.542. Both the 1905 fire at the Saint-Paul-des-Métis, Alberta, school and the 1930 fire at the CrossLake, Manitoba, school were set by students. The Saint-Paul fire resulted in one death; theCross Lake fire, in thirteen deaths. For the Saint-Paul fire, see: Stanley, “Alberta’s Half-BreedReserve,” 96–98. For the Cross Lake fire, see: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10,volume 6260, file 577-1, part 1, J. L. Fuller to A. McNamara, 8 March 1930; [CLD-000933-0000] William Gordon to Assistant Deputy and Secretary, Indian Affairs, 10 March 1930.[CLD-000934]543. Wilson, Missionary work, 167–170.544. TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6032, file 150-40A, part 1, “RegulationsRelating to the Education of Indian Children” (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau,1894). [AGA-001516-0000]545. See, for examples: Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1893, 104;Canada, Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1902, 423.546. See, for example: TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6258, file 576-10,part 9, “Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report, Re: Thomas ‘Tommy’ Linklater et al.,” 23September 1936; [BRS-000240-0006] TRC, NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume6258, file 576-10, part 9, “Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report Re: Thomas ‘Tommy’Linklater et al.,” 20 October 1936; [BRS-000240-0005] TRC, NRA, Library and ArchivesCanada, RG10, volume 6209, file 468-10, part 2, “Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report,Re: Abner Elliott and Leonard Beeswax, truants,” 13 October 1938. [MER-001043-0001] TRC,NRA, Library and Archives Canada, RG10, volume 6209, file 468-10, part 2, “Royal CanadianMounted Police Report, Re: Abner Elliott and Leonard Beeswax, truants,” 11 January 1939.[MER-001048-0001]