If Duke Redbird could make a suggestion this Canada Day weekend, he’d like to pitch you on the otter. Every country has a creature that represents its collective consciousness, the Chippewa-Potawatomi elder says as he sits on his houseboat-turned-art installation at the Ontario Place marina. Redbird will be here throughout the summer to talk Indigenous history with anyone who is curious. Redbird figures that’s a fact people have forgotten — or never known — because of the lack of Indigenous history on Toronto’s waterfront. He says Indigenous history isn’t known because of the policies of the government and the education system.

Source: thestar June 30, 2019 19:18 UTC