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[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@Bratt_world NCTR has 63 names on KIRS memorial now. Also Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc is doing their own research.

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@jacobs_cda @AmazingZoltan McKenna–McBride didn’t “give up.” Many Nations, including the Nisga’a, opposed and boycotted the process because it failed to address Aboriginal title. Rather than recognizing Indigenous land rights, governments were focused on reducing reserves and extinguishing claims.

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@TheReclamare Dumping up to 1,500 strawberry plants onto a single child to care for over the summer..with no machinery, irrigation system, or supervision..was a massive labour expectation. Strawberries require constant hand-weeding, runner clipping, and watering to survive.Summer vacation. 🙄

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@TopAlliedAceWW1 @TheReclamare Sounds like McGuire and Scott didn’t agree.Letter to Scott just before he was removed 1927

"..are those notables who two or three years ago decided that a wing here was not necessary? Are they ready to shoulder the responsibility of their decision?"or..shifting it to stupid me”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@ManonRaven @TheReclamare “I am asking you to inform me whether or not the Department is paying for Indian children attending public schools in the Okanagan Agency, at Winfield, Duck Lake, Westbank, Wood Lake and Enderby.”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@ManonRaven @TheReclamare The quote is even stronger than lobbying:

“I expect the Department to stand solidly with us… no permission be granted either to school boards or Indian parents without the written permission of the Inspector.”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@ManonRaven @TheReclamare The inspector writes:

“He, of course, understands that if an Indian has sufficient money to pay himself for the child’s education, legally he has no recourse.”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@ManonRaven @TheReclamare Gov reply…McGuire complaining that Indigenous kids were attending public schools instead of IRS. McGuire was struggling to fill spaces…officials discussed directing children back to IRS.

“..children should go to the Residential School and not be allowed to go to Day Schools..”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@haven36594 @TheReclamare The Stone Creek Band built the school themselves. Gov not for it.

Indian Agent report warned:

“In the event of establishment of a Day School on this reserve, it would be very difficult indeed to enforce attendance at Lejac school for those who are now enrolled at Lejac.”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@K_Canada_ @TheReclamare

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@haven36594 @TheReclamare The stoney creek nation build school not the government.

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@haven36594 @TheReclamare They wanted school:

“The Indians have a number of grievances, such as the time spent by pupils in manual labour, and religious instruction, and also, their desire for Day Schools, as reasons for keeping the children at home.”

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@timthielmann All while the church boasted about booming farm crops harvested and planted by child labor.

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@timthielmann Meanwhile Duncan Campbell Scott trying to get rid of Father McGuire over poor management.Boys were forced to live in a freezing out-house condemned by local health authorities.
The gov starved Kamloops of funding, and the church crammed children into unhabitable spaces.

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@ManonRaven @TheReclamare The gov blamed the church for poor management, the church blamed the gov for starving them of funds, and the local Indian agents blamed everyone else.
Meanwhile, children were trapped in the middle …forced into crowded, infected dorms
and manual labor to keep the schools going

[Lorrie @avery_lorrie]

@jpaulson49 @TheReclamare Missing from the register doesn’t mean a file never existed. It just means the paper trail was broken.Douglas Stewart's research on this IRS uncovered 6 full pages of student names that were completely left off the surviving administrative archive. This is just page 1 of his work