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Nov 12, 2021 11 min

How Canada's museums are decolonizing and transforming

from This Matters Hosted by Toronto Star

Guest: Jeremy Nuttall, investigative reporter for the Toronto Star In the middle of societal and racial reckonings, many Canadians are asking questions about their shared histories, education and how reliable the stories of our past are. Are they written by the people and communities they're reflecting or is it colonial history? Some of Canada's biggest museums are now are taking a hard look at their exhibits and storytelling, especially when it comes to Indigenous history, which has often be treated as separate from Canada's past rather than a central part of it. The work of "decolonizing" the spaces where we share our stories has begun but what does that actually look like?

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