Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada, 1883: When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with his parents who are savages; he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly pressed upon myself, as head of the Department [of Indian Affairs], that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence… where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men” Source: Page 9 in The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada, by Blair Stonechild (2006) Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891), first Prime Minister of Canada, 1883: When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with his parents who are savages; he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly pressed upon myself, as head of the Department [of Indian Affairs], that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence… where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men”
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