I live  near  Six Nations reserve in Ontario.   Our two room school included some children es who lived off reserve, parents working on farms or for parks and roads. and some were WWII Veterans who served with my Dad in the RCA.  My Dad told us that if anyone came to the door wanting to know where the families were,  "you don't know anyone by that name,  you have no idea".  The government agent and RCMP would go and just take children away, to the "mush-hole" in Brantford: when the parents saw them a year later, the children had been beaten for speaking their language, suffered all kinds of abuse. We knew one lady very well who had her 5 and 6 year old children seized, just because they were Mohawk but living and working off reserve.   Just how can anyone defend that?    It will take generations to repair the horrendous damage from it all.   I so commend Six Nations & New Credit reserves for all they are doing to restore their culture,  languages,  way of life and their health.