Opinion from Phil Boas: History is complex, and it's important to get the history of Native Americans right. That includes a full telling of what happened in Indian boarding schools.
She had just learned that researchers had found some 215 unmarked graves in Canada at one of the historic boarding schools used to house and educate indigenous children.
Man also has a long history of bad ideas and an even worse habit of acting on them. The only way to check our capacity for large-scale cruelty is to understand human nature and vigilantly guard against its worst impulses. In this way, telling the story tells us what we must guard against and exactly how insidious ideas take root.
When historic discovery is led by activists, by people with political agendas, it will invariably be drawn to evidence that supports their claims and avert its eyes from evidence that does not. “On May 30, the federal government lowered the flags on all its buildings to half-staff. Later, it instituted a new holiday to honour ‘missing’ children and survivors of residential schools. Spontaneously, clusters of shoes and orange shirts and other paraphernalia were placed on church steps in many cities or on the steps of legislatures in memory of the little victims.
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