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One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis

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Journalist Peter Edwards has written a sound account of the events surrounding the police shooting of Dudley George at Ipperwash PP, and shows how the then Premier of Ontario, Mike Harris, was very much involved in the police handling of the situation. Now that the Tories have been swept out of power, an inquiry is finally being held--the result of one of the few promises that the current Premier, Dalton McGuinty, has kept. I think that as a result, the incident that took place at Ipperwash in 1995 will become a significant landmark in Ontario history. It will bring to the fore how this Province has mistreated the First Nations people in its jurisdiction, and will hopefully lead to past wrongs being rectified. I highly recommend this book.

I spent part of my childhood at Ipperwash and am very familiar with the reservation, the people and the underlying issues. This book gives a thorough, unbiased account of the the history of the tribe as well as the events that occurred before, during and and after the shooting. Reading it, I relived the sorrow and the outrage that I felt during that period in our history. Anyone who thinks inequality and social injustices no longer exist needs to read this book. We haven't come as far as we'd like to think we have.