Colonialism in Peter and Jane

I’ve just seen a photo of a Peter and Jane book published in 1964. (Peter and Jane 1a, Keywords reading scheme, if you want to look it up.)

In the illustration, Peter and Jane are in a homemade “teepee” and Peter is wearing a children’s play version of a Plains Nation eagle feather bonnet.

When that book was published, Indigenous kids were still being sent to residential schools and dying there. The last residential schools closed in the mid/late 1990s.

For those who are not familia...