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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.

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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.

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