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In my interview with Michelle Good, author of "Five Little Indians" she made reference to a Canadian government official at Indian Affairs, Duncan Campbell Scott, using that hideous term Fascists in 1930s Germany used "Final Solution" As the author told us,this was about children
dying in alarming numbers, of Tuberculosis which was highly infectious, killing #IndianResidentialSchool children at double the rate that was being seen on the reserves. That didn't bother the senior civil servant at the Dept of Indian Affairs. These are his words.
"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness due to habitating so closely in these schools and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages.
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