Unsettling Settler Societies:Sylvia Van Kirk

This piece speak directly to the production of knowledge and emergence of the white mans culture during the colonization of North America. As we discussed in class Van Kirk allows the stories of the “Indians” to be told which would otherwise go untold through the white mans narrative of the Fur Trade.
What we are taught in schools and universities even in modern times are a direct reflection of colonization and the knowledge production of the settler societies. What we are taught to accept as the “truth” and history of North America is extremeyl biased by the voices that were telling and collecting the stories.