“The effects of the state-sponsored attack on indigenous communities … haunt us still.” In its scorching entirety, Clearing the Plains suggests that if present-day Canadians stay blind to our true past, if we do not learn to see ourselves in Big Bear, who, malnourished and subjugated, preferred negotiation to massacre, and not just in Sir John A., who would have his railway at any human cost, we are condemned to keep reinforcing the material gaps between our mainstream and our indigenous populations – to remain, in the ugliest sense, a colony and not a nation.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:38:34 +0000
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