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Jarvis, Anne, Brantford Expositor, Summer 1987     "War devastated Canada. Only 250,000 survived, scattered in small weak groups across the country. This was the scenario Walter Cooke, an Ojibway Cree Indian from Manitoba, presented Tuesday to six pe

Brantford Expositor     " Adolph Hitler is alleged to have said that "the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it," words to that effect. It would be good to keep this in mind when reading some accounts of Indian hi

    "Since the beginning of time, American Indians have lived independent, on their own lands, long before there ever was a white government in America. Any agreements made were made with the British Emp

Windle, Jim, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), Fall 2015     "There are some victims of Canada's assimilation policies through residential schools and other legislated bodies that have fallen through the cracks when it comes to financial compensation."

    "I read this article and I felt like the top of my head had been blown off," Fonda says. "I grew up on cowboys and Indian movies and I didn't know. ... I started to learn everything I could about the

United Church Observer, Jan 1994     "Now we know what happened. For many years, the Canadian government and the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and United Churches took native children from their parents and placed them in resid

Windle, Jim, Two Row Times (Six Nations of the Grand River, ON: Two Row Times), 4 Nov 2015     Indigenous genocide finally acknowledged in Canada By Jim Windle EAGLES NEST/BRANTFORD - The truth about Duncan Campbell Scott is finally out and it's about time that Canada is finally beginning to s

Windle, Jim, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 5 Dec 2012     "Thousands of documents relative to Canada's involvement in the failed residential schools assimilation experiment are being withheld from the ongoing Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

    "The Anglican Church of Canada must accept the part it played in the cruelty natives endured at residential schools and ask their forgiveness, the church's executive has decided."

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 7 Oct 1998, pp.1, 3     'Mush-Hole' survivors launch $900 million suit By Lynda Powless, Editor , A $900 million law suit filed on behalf of a group of "Mushhole Survivors" Monday is one of the largest law suits ever filed

    "There are a variety of answers given by Indian traditionalists when asked to explain what happened to their native language."

    "This is a study of the attempt by the federal government to outlaw the West Coast Indian festival of the potlach as a way of hastening their integration into Canadian culture."

Koehler, Harold, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 9 Jan 2001     Aboriginal Peoples: Canada's own human rights scandal A number of topics are explored in this compilation including colonization, assimilationist policies, economic disparity, racism, treaty rights a

    "Each week brings a new installment in the fight for the survival of an ancient culture in a modern age, and for dominion over lands lost over a century ago. Above all, Native Americans wish to prese

    "Dieter was a student at File Hills until 1942. When you ask what he learned there, he pauses briefly. 'I think it taught me how I would not want to treat people. I was called no good, that I would n