Wendy Char I agree with Sonny Assu and Jan Ross: this is both revising history and removing its context in an effort to erase painful associations. Carr was using the language of the day; she may have had a colonial cast to her eye but her work on native west coast art is magnificent and respectful, and it endures because of this. How about we stop scrubbing out the bits of history we don't like, and learn to embrace the truth in all its imperfect glory?

Viviane Gray As an art curator of Indigenous art for the last 40 years and a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nations, I disagree with the Art Gallery of Ontario for changing the title of Emily Carr’s painting. An artist’s title of their work should never be changed without their permission. First Nations of my age still refer to ourselves as Indian and are not offended by the term. Imagine if Richard Wagamese’s book and movie title “Indian Horse” was changed. Erasing words that were once part of our history in Canada is erasing our history in Canada.

Adam Martin Stephen Harper: "Aboriginal Horse." Justin Trudeau: "Indigenous Horse."

Viviane Gray Adam Martin - we tried First Nations Horse but it came back as FN Horse.

Simone Benech I think if we 'erase' this part of history, for example, similar to what they are doing in america, removing statues...This part of our histories, should be placed somewhere to remember what happened in the past, what we learned from it, so they don't happen again.

Isabella Pride Indian was never part of our culture though,it was kind of force upon us when the settlers came maybe for you Indian isn’t a bad thing but for some people like me I would rather be called something other then indian lol but I think Indian horse should stay that name because I believe it makes the movie more meaningful since it’s about residential schools and all of that

Sean Noonan I have never even thought of the idea of renaming art.. ever..

Randa Speller Can’t imagine that eliminating the word Indian from the painting’s title accomplishes anything. ‘Indian’ is not a dirty or reprehensible word. That being said, the new title with location of the church at the time is good, and could be offered as subtext or in brackets. I also like the comment about adding a panel with comments from First Nations people who live in the vicinity

Dianne Lock Yes keep the authentic nature of Emily Carr and her work. I too identify myself as Indian...the government keeps changing the reference to natives first nations status non status aboriginals and so on to reflect changing times perhaps but it seems to confuse and create conflict more than anything.

Melody Schappert Explain the context of the painting. Do not mess with changing the artist’s naming of the painting.

Simone Benech yes! explain, the time it came from. I don't think we should erase it, then the future generations won't know and maybe doomed to repeat it. (when they can learn from us and the past instead).

Joe Canada Why hide the history? We can’t learn about it if we don’t talk about it.

Sophie Perron Lamouche Change the name of the Indian status card first than think about paintings...

Meaghen Gallagher Sounds very Orwellian to me.
Though I don't doubt their existence, I have never met an Indigenous person who didn't refer to themselves as "Indian", or cared if someone else did. It's like trying to rewrite history. I've asked many of my Indigenous friends what their opinion was on the term "Indian", and it was unanimously unconcerned about it being used, and even sometimes was preferred over other terms like First Nations or Aboriginal.
Emily Carr was inspired by and admired the Indigenous peoples. I doubt she ever intended malevolence in the names she chose for her works of art. We can't erase history, and to start attempting to rewrite it is completely wrong. It's alluding to a very frightening future if this is what our government is allowing.
I encourage and support positive changes moving forward to mend the relationship between Canada and our Indigenous peoples and to right the wrongs done to them. I believe it's very important, in applying these positive changes, to allow people to see the darkness in Canadian history for what it is, in every facet that it shows itself. We do a disservice to Indigenous peoples by denying, changing, or covering up the history.

Jessica Ess-Bee I’m not into this and I’m an Indigenous woman. This is revising history, the same way an Alabama university wanted to change the language in Huckleberry Finn. You can’t revise history because it’s ugly, that is not reconciliation, that is erasure because it’s ugly. Own the ugly, learn from it and make the future better.

Nak Alariaq I hate that people still consider Emily Carr an expert on west coast culture. None of her images depict any people, and her art was shown along stolen indigensius artifacts that were confiscated by the RCMP and the govt when trying to assimilate the people of the west coast. I doubt any of the artifacts and regalia have even been returned. Why aren’t we talking about this CBC Indigenous???