by Admin | Nov 30, 2017 | Member Articles
Aboriginal history & art is a way for us to commemorate and celebrate Aboriginal history. I have visited 3 places in the Windsor-Detroit area that I suggest to brothers & sisters interested to know more about our history. THE TECUMSEH AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2017 | Member Articles
Cultural Safety Training Guide The following was submitted to us by Dr. Chris Ashton, BEng, MD, MBA/Finance. While thiswill be of particular interest to those in the health care field, anyone who wants to understand the anger and frustrations of our First Nations will...
by Admin | Jun 26, 2017 | Member Articles
Reposted with permission from Matthew Hawley, OMFRC Member Richard Pratt, the founder and first superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, believed that the goal of Indian education was to “kill the Indian in him, to save the man (Peterson).”...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Member Articles
~By OMFRC Member Darl Sutherland. Seen previously in the 2012 Special Edition Newsletter Residential schools were seen by the Canadian government as a way to civilize the native population and keep their children from continuing in their native traditions. In 1895...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Member Articles, Metis History
By OMFRC Member D’Arcy Rheault – Originally Published as a Special Edition of Feathers In the Wind, 2012 The 1910 “History of Canada” text book for Ontario Public Schools taught young Canadians that: “All Indians were superstitious, having strange ideas...
by Admin | Mar 13, 2017 | Member Articles, Metis History
This post was first seen in the February 2009 Edition of Feathers In The Wind. Written by Spencer Alexander, Longtime OMFRC Friend and Member. The story of early European contact with the Aboriginal people of North America has many faces, few if any of them are...
