Spirituality | Indigenous, Religion
...the Gospel by European missionaries. As such, the song’s history is intertwined with the destructive presence of the church in Indigenous communities. In the 1950s, the Missionary Society of the...
Justice | Culture
...is literacy, kids and Canadian history — the real history, I mean. Which is why writing about the Road Allowance People, also rudely called the Ditch People, is important to...
Justice | Society
...a former residential school in 2004 “moved this history from a head experience to a heart experience.” As part of his work as the General Council’s officer for Indigenous justice...
Spirituality | Opinion
the communications department at 100 Huntley Street. Admittedly, this so-called history book is now ancient history in its own right. Thirty-six years later, Mainroads and its parent company, Crossroads Christian...
Justice | Culture
...definitely subversive. One such example is Remember | Resist | Redraw, a radical history poster series launched by members of the Graphic History Collective. For these artist-activists, Canada is not...
Justice | Society
...it did so “with the understanding that a true history of the treatment of First Nations people would be on exhibit.” When that didn’t happen, Murray Clearsky, then grand chief...
Ethical Living | Culture, Indigenous
...built on our collective desires and ambitions. King says it better: “Most of us think that history is the past. It’s not. History is the stories we tell about the...
Ethical Living | Indigenous
...1910 shows two men riding ponies at Walpole Island First Nation, where there is also a history of indigenous horses. Once upon a time, before the last Ice Age, horses...
Ethical Living | Culture
...of years old. In jars atop shelves, on strands hung along the walls and in the hands of visitors, these beads tell stories of social class, spirituality, tribal history and...
Justice | Society
...Church, which operated it. It would turn out to be one of the most pivotal civil suits in Canadian history. “The plaintiffs had to decide whose name was going to...