I was not a supporter of the effort to delegitimize Ryerson until I read this article. 500 years ago, 150 years ago or today, cultural genocide - ie: convincing people that their traditional belief system is wrong and forcing them to believe that a man was god and they should worship him etc... is WRONG. It's always wrong. We have known this since Christians started doing this aggressively 1700 years ago. Missinizing is always always morally reprehensible even though most people doing it truly truly have the very best of intentions - they want people to 'go to heaven', be kind, charitable, educated. But it's wrong. Eggerton Ryerson was a likely a good man and not 'Anti-indigenous' but he - and generations of Christian missionaries from then and now-are guilty of cultural genocide. They may not acknowledge it but it's a lesson and a discussion the world needs to have. Being a white Christian is not a crime. Trying to convince a non-Christian to become a Christian IS and always has been