Our event starts at 11 am on the 2nd floor of the Koffler House (569 Spadina Avenue). Social 10:45am – 11:00am.
Can you be an educated person in 2019 without knowing about the Doctrine of Discovery? Our lives are affected every day by these rulings or edicts from 1452 and 1493. What are these ‘inter cetera bulls’? How do they still impact Canadians? Enjoy some amazing ‘gifts to the world’, dig into the shocking Doctrine of Discovery, and participate in our Oasis discussion as ‘the1492guy’ helps us bring pre-Columbus onto our 2019 landscape.
Our featured speaker, Dave Patterson (‘the1492guy’) is a speaker and author from Richmond Hill. He has done 50 of his various presentations, which are perfect for audiences that want to feel inspired about Indigenous issues, instead of always feeling guilty or upset about the latest news. He dispels the ‘Myths of 1492’ by retelling histories, so the listener realizes all Europeans and Indians were peers and co-equals, but then people forgot. The ‘gifts to the world’ from the Western Hemisphere form the backbone of our civilisation. Accomplishments prior to 1492, inventions, innovations, contributions to today’s world – all can be shocking to the average Westerner who has learned that nothing much was accomplished in our home hemisphere before Columbus.
Dave is the author of the book 500 Years of Lies: Discover the Extraordinary Number of Native Indian Gifts to the World. It serves the same purpose as the talks, giving hundreds of these well-established contributions that unfortunately are not part of our world-class education.
You can RSVP for this on our Meetup page at:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/gkxgdryzlbpb/