“The ██████’s Situation”

To Mr. R. F. Davey, Superintendent of Education, Indian Affairs:

censored: access to information act

Regarding the current worrying situation on the ████████ reserve school

Over the past two years the school has been the scene of the following incidents

I

█████████████ was responsible

for making the girl █████ pregnant

while he was employed by us

and the girl was a pupil

under our care

II

████████████████ is sent to jail for tampering

with some of the Indian boy’s (sic)

in his charge

III

███████████ is fired

for having Indians from the reserve

in her room

in the school at night

IV

██████████ runs a mild bootleg establishment

on school property—

he served two terms in jail for drunkenness

V

█████ becomes pregnant

█████████████ is fired

and threatens, “it will all come out then”—

that is, the sort of place we have been running

will then become common knowledge

he goes just the same

VI

aided and abetted by █████

one of our teachers, ████████ ,

sleeps with his son

each morning █████ lets her back into the school

about 5 a.m.

using his key to the boiler room to let her in

other nights his son gets into the school

up the fire escape

and stays with ████████ all night in her room

██████████ knows all about it

VII

█████████████ brings ████████████

back to ███████████████ and leaves

leaves it with ████████████████

after which ██████████████ █████████

███████ ████████ and makes no bones about

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