It turns out that I might have been wrong. This is the conclusion that I’ve reached after reading Truth Telling, a work by an Indigenous author of Canada named Michelle Good (Five Little Indians). This is a collection of seven essays ranging from issues such as residential schools to missing and murdered Indigenous women to land claims. Reading this book, I realized that I might have taken the wrong approach some 20 years ago when I was building a website on Canadian history for high-school students. One of the units I was tasked with researching and writing had to do with what we were then calling Aboriginals and the various treaties that Canada had entered with Indigenous Peoples. I felt that I did good work, and it had been vetted by a history professor at a university — so I was under the impression that my writing was accurate.
The Unspoken Truth about ???Chapri??? and What It Tells Us About Indian Social Media Culture
‘Kya Chapri dikh raha hai ye’, is a phrase we have come across while doom-scrolling on Instagram. Usually, you will see this comment on oddly…