On http://video.google.ca we have a brand new video of politician Stephane Dion reminding the Canadian conservative government to honour the "Kelowna Accord to provide First Nations, Inuit
Elder: The colonial tactic of separating the child with the parent is enforced. The government officials thought about this. They did not want the parents influencing their children.
Elder: There was no choice from either the parent or the child on attending school. Female Elder: They told my father that he had no choice but to leave us there to attend school.
Elder: The first time they discussed it was in 1842 which they called the Bagot Commission. In 1857, a law was made to individualize the people and to take the land for themselves.