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Invigorated by recent social movements calling attention to marginalized voices, a new crop of history buffs has emerged eager to revisit the past to draw a more inclusive portrait of Canada.
Like peer institutions around the country, William & Mary seeks formally to acknowledge the original Indigenous inhabitants of the state-owned land on which the Williamsburg campus resides, and has partnered with their present-day descendants to create appropriate language. After consultation and input from VA Tribal leaders in August 2020, President Rowe approved the following statement: William & Mary acknowledges the Indigenous peoples who are the original inhabitants of the lands our campus is on today – the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway), Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Monacan,...
Is this the beginning of Canada’s reckoning over Indigenous relations? by Courtney Theriault and Joey Chini Posted Jun 25, 2021 9:22 am PDT Last Updated Jun 25, 2021 at 8:28 am PDT CALGARY (660 NEWS) — The ongoing discovery of unmarked graves near residential schools has sparked a reckoning for Canada, but Indigenous leaders say this knowledge is not new. Niigan Sinclair is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, and he says the federal government was invited to investigate residential schools in the past and they refused to do so at the time. The Truth and Reconciliation Co...
After many Canadians reacted in shock over the discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children at a former residential school site, experts are calling out the lack of Indigenous education in the Canadian curriculum.
The University of Alberta offers a free 12-part Indigenous history course online. Schitt's Creek star Dan Levy took it last summer.