A reply to Conrad Black: On Indigenous history we cannot ignore inconvenient truths – National Post
Mar 26, 2021
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As evidenced by Conrad Black’s recent column, there is a gulf between recent scholarship and what the average Canadian thinks they know about Indigenous history. Rather than lambaste the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for deviating from antiquated nineteenth-century historical narratives, we should recognize the commission was an important effort by a Canadian government to ask, rather than tell, the Indigenous their story.
Black’s understanding of Indigenous history isn’t revisionist so much as it is retrograde.
