Mr. Amos Key Jr. at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On February 27th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2019 / 4:05 p.m.

Director of First Nations Language Program, Woodland Cultural Centre, As an Individual

I have a minute.

I've had the privilege of organizing an immersion K-12 education system at Six Nations. Our graduates get an OSSD, an Ontario Secondary School Diploma. It's been going for some 30-plus years. It still functions at the back of a lacrosse arena.

It's a funding anomaly, we're told by civil servants, because they're proactive in English education within the Department of Indian Affairs. That's what they told us. With his grin, the civil servant said, “We are doing you a favour.” This was in the eighties. How uncivilized we were then. “We are doing you a favour.” I remember that day.

I'll stop there.

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