They educated them to death

What a noble goal for a school.

but she doen't fill them with defeatist bullshit

Talking about past mistakes isn't defeatist bullshit. Burying them like these kids is, because the next overlords who will come around and claim superiority will try this again.

Merchant very much invented the narrative

He didn't. I only have to read what every Canadians politician between 1800 and 1970 had to say about First Nation Canadians.