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Thomas Peace, Associate professor, Department of History, Western University

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Universities need to revisit their founding stories

Indigenous histories often go unrecognized in institutional university memories. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Universities pride themselves on their founding stories. These stories, however, tend to privilege dominant institutional narratives and reproduce settler memories — and erase institutional participation in the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from their lands.

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