There are truths that societies often find difficult to confront, and among the most elusive is the recognition of oneself as a coloniser. Throughout history, colonialism has rarely been perceived as such by those who practiced it. It was cloaked in the language of civilising missions, divine promises, or national rebirths. Yet the patterns repeat: the arrival of settlers, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the claiming of land under foreign notions of entitlement.