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Red Indians and Reconciliation

Red Indians and Reconciliation

A society without a shared memory and a shared goal condemns itself

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Jun 21, 2021
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Spirit of the Beothuk, Gerry Squires, 2005 (Boyd’s Cove NL) Photo: Kaye Duncan

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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