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How Canada’s Cult of the Noble Savage Harms Its Indigenous Peoples
‘The Sea of Ice’ aka ‘Polar Sea’ aka ‘The Wreck of Hope’ (1823-4), in reference to an early North Pole Expedition, painted by Caspar David Friedrich.

How Canada’s Cult of the Noble Savage Harms Its Indigenous Peoples

Generations of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to church- and government-run residential schools, which systematically stripped away their culture and language.

Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay
· 21 min read

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