Why is this Subject Taboo?

What I got from the reading was that the author was saying that Natives should be treated equally as the Non-Natives of Canada. The article talks about how we should educate ourselves, and our families. In the article it states that it is up to our leadership take the initiative to educate our people and families.

After reading the article “Why is this Subject Taboo?” I was left a little confused on what point the author was trying to get at. Is our Native history taboo? Some take the topic as taboo because the Native history in Canada is a hard history to swallow. Native people have been through a lot and it is not always a good history on part of what the Governments have tried and is still trying to segregate and colonize the Native people. I think that from our history of assimilation and residential schools and, our treaty rights, all this makes talking about Native issues taboo.