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Settler colonial multiculturalism: Daniel R. Meister'”One of the Cultural Minorities”? Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of Official Multiculturalism’, Canadian Historical Review, 106, 1, 2025

05Apr25

Abstract: Examining advocacy for multiculturalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this article challenges the idea that Indigenous peoples were not part of the discussions that led to the policy of multiculturalism. Instead, it demonstrates that their activism directly led to some inclusion in the early years of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and that ethnic minorities took some tentative steps towards building political alliances with them. However, the possibility of a less colonial, more inclusive “syncretic multiculturalism” was dashed by the White Paper’s assault on Indigenous identities, which diverted Indigenous leaders’ engagement with multicultural activists, and by the passive revolutionary outcome of a policy of “multiculturalism within a bilingual framework,” which originally excluded, but then was quickly extended to include, Indigenous peoples.


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