A few facts....

This letter of mine was published in The Herald this morning.  Unfortunately, I can no longer figure out how to paste it neither into my blog, nor onto facebook, but here it is:

"Dear Editor,

"What is lost in the coverage of Justice Murray Sinclair's report is that we are all immigrants.  All present-day humans began either in Africa, or the Garden of Eden, depending upon one's beliefs.

"North America did not have humans.  It has been proven genetically that Canadian "indigenous" peoples originated in Asia, journeying here when there was a land bridge from that continent.  The British and European immigrants who set up residential schools did so with good intentions and the full backing of government.

"The tragic outcomes with which we live now must have been unintentional at the time.  The schools are gone, so perhaps the time has come to work with what we can achieve together, not focus solely on the wretched past.

Nancy Marley-Clarke
Calgary, AB "

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I doubt many people are aware of this reality.  We are all "tourists" in North America.  None of us just "poofed" from the sky.  It's simply that some arrived here a few thousand years earlier than others.