Macdonald | Montreal | Canada
Macdonald’s role in the creation of the Indian Act
and the residential school system are still felt today. His
government was the architect of a system that ripped thousands of
Indigenous children from their families and into schools meant to
assimilate them. The residential school system led to the deaths,
disappearances and mistreatment of children who were forcibly
separated from their parents. A petition was created as a call
for the dismantlement of current systems and a larger conversation
about racism in Montreal and the rest of Canada. So far 21.500 have
signed.
“There is absolutely no reason or room for a
racist, colonial, white nationalist to be celebrated on unceded
Indigenous land,”. “The very fact that this monument exists is an
example of the whitewashing of cultural history.” reads the
petition.
