University of Manitoba professor is at Algoma University this week to discuss attempts to 'twist and misrepresent basic facts' about the residential school system
Sean Carleton, an assistant professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba, is at the former grounds of Shingwauk Residential School at Algoma University today, where he delivered a lecture on residential school denialism as it continues to gain ground in “extreme right wing” circles in Canada.
The self-described “settler, non-Indigenous historian” says there’s a number of common talking points denialists will use: the residential system was well-intentioned and a product of the times; that Canadians should focus on the positives of the residential school system as opposed to the negatives; and there were no children who died in residential schools — or if they did, they died of natural causes.
“They get the opportunity to publish op-eds in newspapers, and they organize denialist talks to try to create controversy in hopes of perhaps having the talks cancelled so that they can boost their own popularity,” he said. “But also, I think there’s a deep anti-Indigenous racism at the heart of a lot of this.
“I think that increasingly, denialists have less and less air to breathe, room to maneuver, because it’s not just professors and academics and policy experts that are sniffing out this denialism and seeing it for what it is. I think people are able to hear these talking points and from a more educated standpoint, push back on it,” he said.
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