To prepare for his Canadian citizenship test, Stéphane Bazin from France read the federal study guide several times, memorizing facts about hockey players, prime ministers and historical figures.
Bazin learned far less, he said, about Indigenous Peoples and their history.
“The story in the guide is written by the winners,” said Bazin, 41, who wrote the test and became a citizen three years ago. “It’s a very settler-oriented narrative of the French and the British settling — it’s almost like they arrived in an empty country.”
1st People’s Beheaders!
In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 film directed by Edward S. Curtis about the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe of coastal BC and Vancouver Island.
Its all-native cast re-enacts a war party bringing back heads as trophies.
Teachers are forced to sugarcoat all indigenous history. pic.twitter.com/GZcl9vdas2
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) June 26, 2026
Certainly the victims of indigenous inter-tribal genocides, slavery, cannibalism, and human sacrifices should be compensated by the tribes that engaged in these cultural practices.
The Iroquois should pay the remnants of the Hurons as reconciliation for killing and eating their… pic.twitter.com/d7aADnJpGs
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) June 24, 2026
