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Canadian society has historically been and continues to be a swinging pendulum between feigned tolerance and outward aggression to an Indigenous peoples and racialized communities. While Canada claimes to embrace being a mosaic that highly values multiculturalism and religious pluralism, its politicians and citizens have often actioned the opposite.

It is incredibly telling about the state of overcriminalization in Canada that one has to resort to searching the police archives for evidence of Black communities' existence.

The land was so well cared for by Indigenous nations for thousands of years it appeared to be untouched, further bolstering the idea of terra nullius, the settler colonial concept that empty land can be acquired by occupation, based on the colonial mentality of property ownership defined by visible, permanent infrastructure...but does a nation need to be seen by a European state in order to exist? Canada argued yes.

Was it really better to remove history from the website? The guy is already very difficult to find information on…

Really feel like the author is stretching the bounds of art and biography with her projecting on this historic figure…

i have so much to read for school i fear i may die

An interesting topic, but the audiobook is hampered by the reading of literally everything, including notes, captions, descriptions of photographs, and web addresses.

There is also so much supposition and self-insert on the part of the author, it's hard to understand why she chose to write this as non-fiction rather than a well-researched fiction with a note on her research at the end.