Indigenous People Advance a Dramatic Goal

In June 2021, Indigenous Canadians found a grave with the remains of 215 children on the grounds of a shuttered Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. Canada’s 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Report recounts that such schools were central to Canada’s campaign to wipe out Indigenous culture. More than 50 years ago, as Max Fisher reports in The New York Times, Indigenous leaders launched a global effort to address colonialism’s destructive impact and restore Indigenous people’s sovereignty. Canada’s annual Truth and Reconciliation Day marks this ongoing effort of memory and mission. As Fisher reports, truth and reconciliation are part of a complex, ongoing process.