Thank you.
Dr. Healey, I understand and actually share your concern about revisionist history. We say, let's tell our stories but let's not change them.
I don't know enough about the voyageur pageant to know what it really was. You talked about how it was a bunch of white Anglo-Saxon protestants who were doing it, when in fact it was Métis, first nations, and French who did it in the real world. Was that a case of rewriting history or was it just the fact of the matter that it was mostly the white Anglo-Saxon protestants who were participating in it? Then it was a failure of not including people in the party, more than revisionist history.
When we celebrate the Christmas pageant, we know that Joseph and Mary weren't really little kids and we know that the three wise men weren't there at the birth but showed up two years later, but that's not really the point.
We would be upset if some Chinese, some Blackfoot Indians, and some Punjabi participated in the pageant of the War of 1812, even though they weren't really there.
I guess my question is this: how do make sure we're not revising history without being too hung up on stuff like that?