Monthly Archives: June 2021
TRIVIA TRAIL: NATIVE LAND RETURN
Question: Which British monarch gave the lands of Native Americans back to them? Answer: King George III. Albeit, not for long. https://tinyurl.com/yxbkfmck
HISTORY SHARE: NATIVE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
Though the word holocaust is now most only thought of as applying to the twentieth-century Nazi annihilation of ‘undesirables’, there was a Native American holocaust, too. And it was way bigger. https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
HISTORIC INSTITUTIONS: RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
I spent my childhood living back and forth between England (Berkshire / Oxfordshire) and Canada (Ontario / British Columbia). In Ontario, my parents sometimes took two First Nation children at a local residential school on outings and special occasions like Christmas, since they were not always allowed to go home. They were sisters, Rebina, aged […]
Time Travelling With Kids 