Settled Memories on Stolen Land: Settler Mythology at Canada's National Holocaust Monument

Kamryn M

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This factsheet is a snapshot of Chalmer's work on how the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa is used to “canadianize” the Holocaust and position Canada as morally superior to Nazi Germany, when really, Canada has committed its own genocide against Indigenous Peoples. The monument stands on unceded Algonquin territory and this was not acknowledged by the creators/officials, excluding Indigenous Peoples from Canada’s national mythology.

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  • Chalmer Jason. "Settled Memories on Stolen Land: Settler Mythology at Canada’s National Holocaust Monument.” The American Indian Quarterly 43, no.4 (2019): 379-407. https://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2019.a736438

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