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Confirmation Bias and the Indian Act: How Common Knowledge Can Fuel Anti-Indigenous Racism
The National Aboriginal Veterans Monument, Ottawa (source). This essay from Professor Daniel Sims shows how indigenous history in North America knows no national boundaries, and historical truth also knows no national boundaries. Nor does racism. "In May 2024, I attended a meeting of Parks Canada’s Indigenous Cultural Heritage Advisory Council in Sydney, British Columbia. One of our agenda items was the federal government’s commemoration of upcoming historical events, including the passage of the Indian Act in 1876. The hope was that we would tell the federal government how to commemorate these events in an Indigenous way or at least in a manner that reflected the value of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous values.
