Exploring Theme: "Indigenous History"

Rustad’s party set out their education plans Sunday. And then changed them hours later. The Tyee: Voters worried the BC Conservatives’ plan to implement a secret, extreme agenda if they win the election had their fears stoked this weekend. As did voters who worry the party is incompetent and not remotely ready to govern. Leader...

Historians, First Nations leaders take aim at new museum’s telling of the province’s origin The Toronto Star: The Quebec government’s framing of a new museum to be dedicated to the history of the Québécois nation is raising questions about how history is told and who it includes, two historians and the leader of a prominent...

A cadet salutes the wreaths laid at the Victory Square Cenotaph in downtown Vancouver to honour Indigenous veterans in Canada on Nov. 8, 2023. Photo by Pippa Norman Listen to article Canada’s National Observer -Concerns of an emerging climate enemy coupled with calls for hope at an Indigenous Veterans Day ceremony held in Vancouver. At the...

Deep divisions over continued challenges from residential schools, special status for Indigenous Peoples Angus Reid Institute Poll Survey Results October 5, 2023 – Canada was officially proclaimed a dominion by the British in 1867, but this land’s history extends thousands of years prior. For most in this country, the legacy of first contact between Indigenous Peoples and early...

‘Our parents were taken to a place where there was nothing’ Elisapie Nutuara recalls what it was like to be relocated to Grise Fiord in the High Arctic | Telling Our Story – Duration 3:19 The Canadian government moved Elisapie Nutuara’s family about 2,000 kilometres north as part of the Inuit High Arctic relocation in the...

The field of archaeology changing. So are the ways some young Indigenous people see themselves CBC News: When she was about eight years old, Jennifer Tenasco moved from her home community of Kitigan Zibi, Que., to Ottawa. Changing schools meant she’d lost an important place to learn about her culture: her classroom on reserve.  “It...

A new book from Sean Carleton encourages critical thinking about connections between colonialism, education and capitalist exploitation The Maple: For this week’s Class Struggle, I sat down with Sean Carleton to talk about his 2022 book Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia, the paperback version of which is out from UBC...

The Globe and Mail: The Governor-General of Canada usually chooses her words with careful, unsmiling deliberation. But her anger at the way that Canadian history has, until recently, been taught in our schools was unmistakable. “It has been uneven and it is unfair,” Mary Simon said. “This country is so diverse, but for the longest...

CBC News: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faced criticism from his political opponents Friday for delivering a speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), a controversial Winnipeg-based group that has been associated with efforts to downplay the effects of residential schools on Indigenous children and oppose vaccine mandates. Before introducing Poilievre on Friday, the group’s president, Peter Holle, said...

Who ‘discovered Canada’? Quebec says French explorer over Indigenous people: survey CTV News: OTTAWA, W.VA. –  Quebecers are more inclined to say Jacques Cartier — or even Christopher Columbus — “discovered Canada,” compared to the rest of the country, which points to Indigenous people, a new survey suggests. The results are based on a web study...

Toronto Star: One year after more than 1,000 unmarked graves were discovered on the grounds of former residential schools — putting a global spotlight on Canada’s horrific history of assimilation and abuse of Indigenous children — Canadians are barely any more familiar with the painful legacy of the institutions, new research shows. According to data...

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador – The Legault government is revising the Ethics and Religious Culture course, offered to secondary school students in the province, with the objective of giving its content a more “Quebec citizenship” focus. The project is part of the new nationalist ideology championed by Premier François Legault. The Premier’s initiative...

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. – NTI has filed a landmark lawsuit with the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit, asserting that the Government of Nunavut (GN), by failing to provide a public school system offering Nunavut Inuit equal opportunities to complete schooling in their own language and culture, is violating constitutionally-protected equality rights of Nunavut Inuit...