![]() The suffering of Indigenous peoples, when it is framed that way at all, is presented in the context of technologically and even culturally superior Europeans overwhelming and eliminating the small groups of Indigenous people who lived here. The story of colonization, when it is taught at all, is often very one-sided and Eurocentric. ![]() ![]() In it, she says, “The New World, so to speak, was already an Old World.” I love this excerpt, the facts that Talaga shares as she grounds them in her own search for identity and relations, because it approaches issues of colonialism through a different lens from the one we often see in Canada. One of my favourite passages to assign to my English classes is an excerpt from All Our Relations, by Tanya Talaga. ![]()
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