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This Mural Tells a Beautiful Tale of Cultural Solidarity. But Did It Really Happen?
After a Tyee piece referenced the artwork, the story it depicted was called into question. The result? Sifting through conflicting histories.
Christopher Cheung reports on urban issues for The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter at @bychrischeung.
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The mural in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant, titled
Taike-Sye’yə from a Punjabi word roughly meaning cousin and a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ word for friend, depicts Indigenous paddlers delivering food and supplies to the passengers of the Komagata Maru in 1914. The historicity of the story has been questioned. ....

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