The reinforcement you have ordered this way, so

considerable by the additional number of officers, will

fully enable me to crush the little opposition they

may dare to offer along the Road, and Secure that

Part of the Country against all their future attempts,

till you think proper to order us to act in

conjunction with the rest of your Forces to extirpate

that Vermine from a Country they have forfeited,

and with it all claim to the rights of humanity.

 

 

                                                                                   

 

 

 "I want to get rid of the Indian problem," said Duncan Campbell Scott, superintendent of Indian affairs, addressing a parliamentary committee in 1920.

 

 

 

"If I was in charge of a group of Indian children and wanted to get rid of half of them

through exposure of communicable diseases, there is no better tool

than our Indian Residential Schools.

 

-  Neal Parker, superintendant of Indian Affairs, 1949