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The Debate About Indian Residential Schools Misses the Point

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on January 25, 2018July 2, 2021

The Indian residential school debate is and has always been about the right of one ethnic or cultural group to dominate and absorb another.

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Reflections on Jeff Barnaby’s “Rhymes for Young Ghouls”

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on September 11, 2013January 10, 2015

WE ARE INFORMED by the Oxford English Dictionary that the word “ghoul” derives from an…

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Ottawa’s Indian policies stick with tried and tested failure

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 8, 2012January 11, 2020

WHEN THE politician and aspiring poet Nicholas Flood Davin visited Captain Richard H. Pratt’s Carlisle…

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Canadians need to educate themselves about indigenous peoples

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on October 27, 2011January 6, 2015

TOMORROW MORNING I will get on an airplane and fly to Halifax, where the Truth…

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How to Look at Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Archive

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on August 18, 2011January 12, 2015

Photo: Rupert’s Land Indian Industrial School / later St. Paul’s Indian Residential School, 1901. Library…

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Indian Affairs Gets a Gender Reassignment

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on June 10, 2011January 7, 2015

I now have unchallengeable objective proof that I’ve lived too long in Ottawa, and it’s…

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Indian Residential Schools

  • by Wayne K. Spear
  • Posted on March 10, 2010July 4, 2021

CANADA’S INDIAN RESIDENTIAL School System began officially in 1892 with an Order-in- Council.

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Wayne K. Spear has been a writer for over thirty years. His work has appeared in the National Post, Huffington Post, CBC, Ottawa Citizen, and elsewhere. He was a weekly CTV News panelist and currently hosts The Roundtable Podcast.

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Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, A National History — winner of the Golden Oak Award and finalist of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Rated 4.25/5 on Goodreads!

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