Here is what Sir John A. Macdonald did to Indigenous people

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Here is what Sir John A. Macdonald did to Indigenous people – Ottawa Citizen

by ahnationtalk on August 28, 20183254 Views

Of course, all this was happening in an era that was comparatively brutal almost everywhere

August 28, 2018

Right now, Canada is experiencing another spasm of controversy over the legacy of its first prime minister, John A. Macdonald. Although he undoubtedly laid the foundations of modern Canada, he also personally set in motion all the most damaging elements of Canadian Indigenous policy.

Here, in brief, is an accounting of the toll that Macdonald had on Canada’s First Nations.

“I have reason to believe that the agents as a whole … are doing all they can, by refusing food until the Indians are on the verge of starvation, to reduce the expense,” Macdonald told the House of Commons in 1882.