Tag Archives: Indigenous Peoples
HISTORY-IN-THE-MAKING: POPE FRANCIS’S PENITENTIAL PILGRIMAGE
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-pope-alberta-apology-1.6530947 And residential schools, and all other atrocities committed against native peoples in Europe’s ‘discovered’ lands, were set in motion by this:
HISTORY SHARE: THE REAL POCAHONTAS & GERONIMO
Books and movies about well-known Native Americans don’t always get it right. The real Pocahontas: https://tinyurl.com/3jv488ee https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-pocahontas-180962649/ The real Geronimo: https://tinyurl.com/7yhnwsmd https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/geronimo-the-warrior
HISTORY IN THE MAKING: PAPAL APOLOGY
Apologies for what happened to children in Canada’s residential schools have been made before, but not by the Roman Catholic church. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/some-m-ikmaw-react-strongly-to-pope-francis-apology-1.6405426 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/pope-francis-apologizes-for-catholic-church-s-role-in-canadian-residential-school-system-1.5843937 https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/canadian-indigenous-leaders-ask-pope-spend-night-thinking-their-abused-children
HISTORY SHARE: ORANGE SHIRT DAY
In honour and recognition of Canada’s newest statutory holiday. An historic move in itself. https://www.orangeshirtday.org/
HISTORY SHARE: SLAVERY IN CANADA
Lest anyone think slavery was all south of the border. https://tinyurl.com/y3nf25jy https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada