Authors: Susan Lukey

“Enemy Aliens”—that is the label the Canadian government gave to my Ukrainian ancestors during World War I and to Japanese Canadians during World War II to justify confiscating their property, savings, and possessions, and confining them to internment camps. “Enemy Aliens”—two words that demonized a people, proclaiming loudly that because...

I stood in the hall of the Alcázar (royal palace) in Seville, Spain, where Christopher Columbus received the blessing of Queen Isabella to go out to search for a new route to India, with disastrous results for Indigenous peoples. As our guide explained the historical moment, I was reminded of...