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Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt. (Deyohaha:ge Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Six Nations Polytechnic)

July 1, 2024

Looking for Indigenous history? ‘Shekon Neechie’ website recentres Indigenous perspectives

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, University of Winnipeg; Robert Alexander Innes, McMaster University, and Susan M. Hill, University of Toronto

A website curated by Indigenous historians shares reading lists about Indigenous histories in Turtle Island (North America) related to over 40 topics, as well as a podcast offering oral histories.

The decision by the city of Victoria to take down a statue of John A. Macdonald has renewed debate about how historical figures should be remembered. This photo from 2015, taken at Wilfrid Laurier University, shows people protesting Macdonald’s treatment of Métis and First Nations during his time as Canada’s first prime minister. Denia Anderson

August 13, 2018

John A. Macdonald should not be forgotten, nor celebrated

Robert Alexander Innes, McMaster University

Should statues of historical figures be removed or replaced? That debate has been rekindled in Canada after Victoria took down a statue of John A. Macdonald, the country’s first prime minister.

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