Never taught
Doug Peterson,
doug — off the record,
Jun 09, 2021
Though there are many statues around the country to remind us of our history, I was never taught about residential schools and the effort to "remove the Indian" from Indigenous peoples in this country. And I never learned about the existence of mass unmarked graves of their children until this week. Statues don't teach people about the past, they help those in power obscure that past. Teaching needs to be an active, continuing and open process of growth, facing the past honestly and, where necessary, remorsefully. And as Doug Peterson says, "Just don't let students leave your school saying they were never taught." As he adds, if your school district isn't providing the resources, or you're looking for more, the web resources https://www.fnmieao.com/students/ and https://etfofnmi.ca/ are good places to turn. Image: Whose Land.
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