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"...and forgetting all the kindness that had been bestowed upon them, forgetting all the gifts that had been given to them, forgetting all that the Government, the white people and the Parliament of Canada had been doing for them, in trying to rescue them from barbarity [...] forgetting all these things, they rose against us."

- John A. MacDonald, 1885

Cultural genocide was intentional, but framed as kindness.