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Originally Posted by icecube

Are you going to pretend you didn't write that?

I gotchoo fam.

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...7&postcount=26

Natives of the time had no skills suitable for employment. The buffalo hunt was over. Even the market for furs (which can only employ a limited number of people in the first place) collapsed. Natives did not know how to farm (which was how about 80 per cent of Canadians made a living), and efforts to teach them had failed. Most were illiterate, at a time when literacy was increasingly important to getting a job and managing your own affairs. It seemed pretty clear to those in authority at the time that leaving natives to be raised in isolated communities could lead only to more generations of abject poverty, illiteracy, and estrangement from wider society.