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In the media: How to teach young children about Canada’s history with residential schools

Photos show memorial around Centennial Flame at Parliament Hill to honour the lives of 215 indigenous children whose remains were found in a mass grave in Kamloops, BC, Canada.

Memorial around Centennial Flame at Parliament Hill to honour the lives of 215 Indigenous children whose remains were found in a mass grave in Kamloops, BC, Canada.

How early is too early to explain the complicated history of Canada and its treatment of Indigenous people? York University professor Susan Dion explains how Indigenous history can be taught in primary school.

“It’s important that adults work through their understanding of settler colonialism so that they are prepared to teach their children about the history–that the relationship that parents and adults have to the history will impact their capacity in sharing these stories with children.”
Professor Susan Dion

Listen to the full interview on CBC radio’s Fresh Air show.