And Oh, Thank you so much. It's such an enormous pleasure to be here and I'm honored by the invitation and so grateful to

Professors, Dennett Dale and Truitt and the Pueblo Nation for their continued hospitality

as we walk in their territory.

This is from my book that I'm writing and it's a chapter that's in process.

So that's the warning.

On June 11th, 2008, the then Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, apologized to

indigenous peoples for a quote sad chapter in our nation's history, the history of residential schools.

And it is worth quoting just this once from him directly, just this once.

For more than a century, Indian residential schools separated over 150,000 Aboriginal children from their families and communities.

In the 1870s, the federal government, partly in order to meet its obligation to educate

Aboriginal children, began to play a role in the development and administration and administration

of these schools. The two primary objectives of

the residential school system were to remove and isolate children from the

influence of their homes, families, traditions, and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant

culture. These objectives were based on the assumption. Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs

were inferior and unequal.

Indeed, some sought, as it was infamously said,

and this will be familiar to many of us here,

to kill the Indian and the child.

It's a twist on something we know from Pratt. Today we recognize

that this policy of assimilation was wrong. It has caused great harm and it has

no place in our country. In this piece I consider the move to sorrow expressed above or what is a new technique for what liberal theorists might call writing wrongs,

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