Visitors, who included non-Indigenous Canadians, residential school students, and teachers, encountered the pavilion in different ways. The pavilion also anticipated the National Indian Brotherhood’s criticism of colonial education in Indian Control of Indian Education (1972). Dion, who advocates for ways that Canadians can hear stories that contradict their own subject positions, the author suggests that many visitors were not willing or not able to hear the critical re-education the pavilion offered. While the pavilion has been remembered as a turning point for Indigenous art and politics, this essay considers its educational impact. The Indigenous-led celebration of survivance stood as a mounted critique of historical and present-day settler colonialism. Amidst the colonial celebrations of Canada’s Centennial and the pedagogical landscape of 1960s Canada, the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 resisted.
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