Red Indians and Reconciliation
A society without a shared memory and a shared goal condemns itself
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A university instructor wrote a few weeks ago to the Halifax-owned newspaper in St. John’s. She had “discomfort,” as she put it, when teaching first-year students at Memorial the name of a lake. The name is “known throughout North America” as a derogatory term for Indigenou…
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