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"When the hearts is won, the understanding is easily convinced."
Charles Simmons
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Yankee Notions, New York, November 1852
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"My mother advised me when setting out in life to believe 'nothing I heard and only half of what I saw.'"
Elizabeth Hall, 21 December 1860
"The typical American captivity narrative has been described as device for anti-Indian propaganda. At a time when Indians were an obstacle to frontier expansion, these atrocities were 'shaped by publishers exploiting a mass market that thrived on sensationalism, in a natural alliance with land speculators who wanted to implement a policy of Indian extermination in the interest of real estate development.'"
Sarah Carter, Capturing Women and James Levernier and Henning Cohen, The Indians and Their Captives. [Today the word "captivity" is being used to describe First Nations children taken to residential schools or to foster homes.]
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Le charivari canadien, Québec, 6 November 1868
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THE WONDERS OF ART
WORKINGMAN: "Since the public may judge of me from your picture, Mr. Capital, be careful to make it a true one."
TRUTHFUL ARTIST: "Oh, certainly! I shall not misrepresent you."
Irish World and Industrial Liberator, 1 February 1879
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Puck, New York, 2 April 1879
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Grip, Toronto, 30 October 1880
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Le grognard, Montréal, 17 December 1881
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"When reading history ask yourself] whose voices have been included and whose have been left out."
Sara Carter
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"The correspondents sent by Canadian newspapers [to the North West in 1885] . . . second-guessed commanders, repeated every rumour and embroidered the exploits of hometown heroes. If they wrote for opposition newspapers, they sought evidence of military blunders and administrative incompetence."
Desmond Morton
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson, Speech, U.S. Senate
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Sir John A. Macdonald, Le Canard, Montréal, 22 January 1887
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[Newspaper reporting on Indian reserves were] "anything but the picture of serenity presented in the Regina Leader, whose explicit editorial policy was to gloss over anything that might detract from settlement of the country."
James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains Disease Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
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A man with "fake news" rushing to the printing press, Frederick Burr Opper, artist, 7 March 1894, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
"I could 'paint' you two pictures. The one would represent the bright side of Indian life, with its feathers, lances, gayly dressed and mounted 'banneries', fights, buffalo hunting, etc. The other the dark side, showing the filth, vermin, poverty, nakedness, suffering, starvation, superstition, etc. Both would be equally true-neither exaggerated, or distorted; both totally dissimilar."
Henry Boller
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Bad for business, Puck, New York, J. S. Pughe, 25 March 1896, LC2012648511
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[Laurier] Samuel Hunter, Royal Ontario Museum, 30 January 1897
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Charles W. Jefferys, The Moon, Toronto, 21 March 1903
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J. W. Bengough, The Moon, Toronto, 4 April 1903
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Art Young, Life, New York, 10 March 1904
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Cartoons, John T. McCutcheon, New York, 1905, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Puck, New York, 28 March 1906
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"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."
Danish Proverb
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William Charles Morris, Spokesman-Review Cartoons, Spokane, WA., 1908?
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Art Young, Life, New York, 28 January 1909
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"If the camera never lies, neither does it tell the whole truth."
Daniel Francis, The Imaginary Indian, 2011
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The Calgary Eye-Opener, 20 April 1912
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Poor man vs corporation, Art Young, artist, Puck, New York, 8 May 1912,LC2006686966
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The Masses, New York, August 1912
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The Labor Journal, Everett, Washington, 26 September 1913
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The Masses, New York, October 1913
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Canadian Courier, 4 July 1914
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The Instigators, The Masses, Art Young, 1916
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The Fatherland, New York, 19 January 1916, Digital Library@Villanova University
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The Masses, Art Young, cartoonist, May 1916
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Puck, New York, 30 September 1916
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The Woman Voter, New York, January 1917
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Puck, New York, 5 July 1917
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American Socialist, Chicago, 21 July 1917
"Most papers in Canada had been started by political parties, or been financed by them."
Peter Stursberg
"The press is the hired agent of a moneyed system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where the interests are involved."
Henry Brooks Adams
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The Canadian Forward, Toronto, 24 March 1918
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Who shall I hate next? The Liberator, Arthur Young, 1 May 1919, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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15 July 1919
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"No man is free of his own history."
Anita Brookner, Latecomers
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The Toiler, Cleveland, 16 July 1920
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Art Young, Good Morning, New York, October 1920
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Art Young, Life, New York, 22 November 1923
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Art Young, Life, New York, 17 January 1924
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Art Young, Life, New York, 31 January 1924
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John Geoffrey Saxe, The Blind Men and the Elephant
Art Young, Life, New York, 28 February 1924
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The Young Worker, Chicago, 19 April 1925
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Hugo Gellert, New Masses, New York, May 1926
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The Nation, New York, 14 July 1926
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K. A. Suvanto, The Daily Worker, 10 September 1926
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I. Klein, New Masses, New York, February 1927
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"History gets written by the winners."
Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
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"It is the victors who write history. . . Victors often do write the histories and for some time they can even control the narrative, but sooner or later professional historians will begin poking holes in their story."
Tomek Jankowski
"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
Chinua Achebe
"Perspectives do not simply change; we recognize today that some perspectives (womens) were entirely left out of earlier histories."
Sara Carter, Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
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"The soul and culture of a nation can be detected in the quality of its popular heroes."
Abbé Groulx
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"You've heard politics described as the art of the possible. Well, the impossible is involved––because you've got to get elected to practice the art of the possible and in order to get elected, you've got to promise the impossible."
Benny Nicholas
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"Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the story we tell about the past."
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian
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Mische Richter, Health and Hygiene, NY, July 1937
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"I know that truth is one of the first victims of war."
J. S. Woodsworth, 1939
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Art Young, New Masses, New York, 11 April 1939
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Workers Age, NY, 14 October 1939
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“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility because . . . in the primitive simplicity of their minds (the great masses) more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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Nation's Business, Washington, D.C., March 1941
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The United States News, 2 January 1942
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The United States News, 2 January 1942
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The United States News, 2 January 1942
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Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board, National Archives at College Park, 1942-43, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Big Lie Technique
“The technique was all set out in Hitler's book [Mein Kampf]- and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.”
President Franklin Roosevelt, 1944
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Laura Gray, The Militant, New York, 25 March 1944
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Laura Gray, The Militant, New York, 1 July 1944
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Un journal catholique dans chaque family
A Catholic newspaper in every family
La Liberté et le patriote, St. Boniface, 4 February 1949
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The prisoner wishes to make a confession - voluntary, it goes without saying.
La Liberté et le patriote, St. Boniface, 24 March 1950
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"Don't join the book burners (demands by Senator McCarthy aids that libraries purge books) Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship."
Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1953
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Herb Block, 7 May 1954
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Varsity, Toronto, 14 January 1955
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“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
Winston Churchill
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"History can be well written only in a free country."
Voltaire, letter to Frederick the Great
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The Fisherman, Vancouver, 13 February 1959
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Gerry, The Gateway, Edmonton, 5 February 1960
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The Sheaf, Saskatoon, 2 December 1966
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"What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence! "
Sir Walter Raleigh, attributed, Testimony: Its Posture in the Scientific World
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The Manitoban, Winnipeg, 10 January 1969
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Queen's Journal, Kingston, 30 March 1971
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The Martlet Victoria 2 Mar 1972
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Everett Soop, 1974, LAC e011313517
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George Shane, Varsity, Toronto, 21 September 1977
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Varsity, Toronto, 14 November 1977
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The Fisherman, Vancouver, 10 July 1981
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Vision for the future US Supreme Court, AnaSoc, CC bY_SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, 09 June 2018
"When we open our devices (social media posts), we must become more selective about our sources and critically questions claims against verifiable facts. "
Marcus Kolga, founder of Disinfo Watch.org
"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
George Eliot
"All quotations [used by writers] are taken out of context."
Charlotte Gray
"Readers should question every writer including me."
Charlotte Gray
"Exclusive reliance on written documents to interpret history confirms the hegemony of the colonizers. And that is part of the reason why historians have concluded that they must move beyond their traditional reliance on written words if they are ever to understand the indigenous past… Ethno-historians use oral tradition, ethnography, and archaeology as well as the written record."
Robin Fisher
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