The Legacy of Hope Foundation and Roots and Hoots Presents - A Federal Indian Day School Series Podcast with Blackfoot Scholar, Apooyak'ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete (Ottawa, ON) – December 23, 2025 – The Legacy of Hope Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the final episode in our 8-part podcast series on the Federal Indian Day School System with Blackfoot scholar Apooyak’ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete. Dr. Prete is a member of the Kainai (Blood) Tribe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge and the Canadian Research Chair in Indigenous Resiliency. In this final episode of the Day School Series project, Dr. Prete sheds light on Canada’s broader colonial education project, the ways systemic racism in the schooling system continues to impact achievement gaps for Indigenous youth, her ongoing work on Call to Action 78, and the honour she feels in being able to carry out this research and work for her community. From the research she has conducted on the Blood reserve, the Day School Model was the very first school model used by the Federal Government, and it was created to confine the Blood people to the reserve. To listen