Kids are heading back to school this week in a swirl of controversy over Ontario’s sexual education curriculum.
But there has been little talk about the fate of an unprecedented Indigenous history program for students.
Without warning, the Doug Ford government ended the second phase of planned changes to the curriculum.
Todd Lamirande reports on a job half done with no signs it will be completed soon.
Throughout the hemisphere, Aboriginal communities (Nations) are the least represented and the most invisible. The history of First Nation people are not told and are treated as “not important” to warrant a footnote in history; like that of pre-Christian (prehistoric societies). The history of the Americas begins with the colonization of the land. “A land without people; for a people without a land.” This sentiment has been sold from South Africa to New Zeland, by those who came to colonize the primitive land from the primitive savages. Have attitudes really changed since the time of Kitt Carson when he stated, “the only good injun is a dead one”? What should be a simple change in the school curriculum of inclusion of Aboriginal history, becomes a painstaking laborious thing. We really want to include [you people] but it is so hard to do. Can we postpone it until an indefinite time? Honestly, we will eventually include you in our history books; maybe as those ancient people that lived so long ago.
Throughout the hemisphere, Aboriginal communities (Nations) are the least represented and the most invisible. The history of First Nation people are not told and are treated as “not important” to warrant a footnote in history; like that of pre-Christian (prehistoric societies). The history of the Americas begins with the colonization of the land. “A land without people; for a people without a land.” This sentiment has been sold from South Africa to New Zeland, by those who came to colonize the primitive land from the primitive savages. Have attitudes really changed since the time of Kitt Carson when he stated, “the only good injun is a dead one”? What should be a simple change in the school curriculum of inclusion of Aboriginal history, becomes a painstaking laborious thing. We really want to include [you people] but it is so hard to do. Can we postpone it until an indefinite time? Honestly, we will eventually include you in our history books; maybe as those ancient people that lived so long ago.