The Thomas Indian School and the "Irredeemable" Children of New York Grade Three Teaching Rocks

Teaching Rocks

They realize as they point fingers at each other

Recommended as Grade 10 Science resource by Saskatchewan Learning

and illustrated by Eric Kim and Amanda Sandland

Killing the Shamen is the story of the Sandy Lake Cree of northwestern Ontario and their clash with the Canadian criminal justice system in 1907

The Thomas Indian School and the "Irredeemable" Children of New York Grade Three Teaching RocksThe story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger number of Indian children than most of the more well known federal boarding schools. Founded by the Presbyterian missionaries on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in western New York, the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, as it was formally named, shared many of the characteristics of