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Nii Ndahlohke is a Lunaape word that translates as "I work" in English.It is an appropriate title for this short but informative book about student life and child exploitation at the Mount Elgin Industrial School.Residential School histories are being written with increasing and welcomed frequency.Works like Nii Ndahlohke help elucidate this national history by showing how schools operated and impacted Indigenous people in specific areas.Focusing on how children at Mount Elgin were forced to provide free labour to maintain the school, McCallum illustrates how this school not only failed to provide Indigenous children with a useful education but also exploited those children to support the same school that was, in turn, harming them.The history McCallum recounts is made more poignant when she relates that it was First Nations living at what is today the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation who wanted the school built.As was the case with other Indigenous requests for European schooling, the parents' original intent to help their children was quickly perverted by missionary groups and government officials.Children became the victims of underfunded, poorly run, badly supervised, utterly inadequate schools that provided inadequate education to the students even by late nineteenth and early twentieth century standards.Mount Elgin was classified as an "industrial school" with local
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