Research conducted over a 10-year period in the 1970s revealed a trend at Manitoulin Secondary School of directing First Nations students into the lower academic streams.

[1] As a result, Wikwemikong removed their children from Rainbow District and formed their own high school in their community, resulting in a significant decline in the student population at Manitoulin Secondary School.

[2] In 2018, a fight broke out on the school grounds involving 50 students, both European-Canadian and Indigenous.

The Chief of M'Chigeeng First Nation wrote an open letter stating, "that this incident is an indicator of a deeper, more disturbing reality, which is underlying racism that has now reared its ugly head yet again.

[4] Despite involvement in the fight from both sides, police only charged Indigenous students.