Indigenous Slur Appears 39 Times In Book Taught To BC High Schoolers – Huffington Post Canada

Students were asked to match slurs with their definition.

VANCOUVER — A complaint from a parent about a classroom assignment to match the word “squaw” to “Aboriginal woman” has prompted a publisher to remove a book for review and is raising questions about how schools should teach controversial topics.

A Vancouver woman took to social media over the weekend to express her shock about educational material used at Templeton Secondary School in Vancouver related to the graphic novel “Susanna Moodie: Roughing it in the Bush.”

Publisher Margie Wolfe of Second Story Press apologized Monday and said the book had been removed from the company’s website for review, along with all other material with content related to Indigenous history, peoples, and communities.