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• European Settlers in the 17th, 18, or 19th centuries opposed to the treatment Aboriginal Peoples were getting?
  I was just wondering if there was any information on European settlers who might have lived in the 17th, 18, or 19th centuries that didn't like the treatment by their communities of Aboriginal Peoples and spoke out against it or did solidarity work in some way? Do you know if there was anything like that happening (kind of like the White Abolitionists doing solidarity work with Black slaves and freed Black people). I want to be able to say to my classes, this is the way Aboriginal peoples experienced European settlers/colonizers coming to their land and this is the way most colonizers behaved; BUT, there were some Europeans/Whites who did organize and did speak out - demonstrate there is a history of resistance there as well. Do you know of any documents about, or groups that might have done this work? Do you think there were any white settlers doing anything like this in the first place?
  
  
• Is the CBC Canadian History Series a good resource?
  I had heard several glowing reports of a recent CBC Canadian History series. Perhaps the show struck only me in a less than positive way. My concern is, that once again, "Canadian" history is presented from a Euro-centric position. In our schools, we have begun to work at issues of racism and to check the texts we purchase for appropriate content. The power of the media can undo much of this fledgling work with a glitzy production. As educators, we need to be extremely vigilant that past wrongs are not perpetuated, and that young people (and adults) learn a more balanced history of this country and it's many nations from the descendants of all people involved. Unfortunately, the general Canadian public[viewing this series may] still be left with the same old messages of the Europeans and the "Indians".