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Jul 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today is the 32nd anniversary of the start of the Siege of Kanehsatake, or the so-called Oka Crisis. Here is @EllenGabriel1 and I's #RememberResistRedraw poster about the Legacy of ‘Oka’ and the future of Indigenous resistance: Image
You can read the full write up, by Ellen and I here: graphichistorycollective.com/project/poster…
For the 30th anniversary, I wrote this op-ed for the Globe: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
If you are interested in what has been happening in Kanehsatake more recently, I also wrote this piece - in consultation with Ellen, again - for @ConversationCA: theconversation.com/the-legacy-of-…

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Jul 13
Today is the deadline to submit a claim for the Indian Day School class action. In support of Survivors who are sharing their truth, here is a 🧵about the history and ongoing legacy of the IDS system, based on @jacksonpind and I's recent piece: theconversation.com/canadas-reckon…
Most don’t realize that Canada’s system of “Indian education” was not limited to residential schools. It also included a network of nearly 700 federally funded and church-run Indian Day Schools, which were attended by an estimated 200,000 Indigenous people between 1870 and 2000.
Despite making up a large part of Canada’s system of Indian education, day schools were excluded from the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. A different class action for day schools closes today (July 13, 2022), and so far over 150,000 people have been included.
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May 26
Since Terry Glavin goes out of his way to say that his most recent piece is not "residential school denialism," let me quickly explain why it is. A thread on residential school denialism 🧵:
To start, residential school denialism is NOT, as Daniel Heath Justice and I have explained, the outright denial of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system’s existence. It is, rather, an attempt to misrepresent basic IRS facts/info to undermine truth and reconciliation.
We argue, "Residential school denialists employ an array of rhetorical arguments. The end game of denialism is to obscure truth about Canada’s IRS system in ways that ultimately protect the status quo as well as guilty parties." This is what Glavin does: theconversation.com/truth-before-r…
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Oct 25, 2021
Historian of schooling here to point out why Jean Chrétien's comments are problematic and amount to residential school denialism. I break down his talking points in this🧵: cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
Chrétien's comments are based on a false equivalent he makes between his boarding school experience and residential schooling, which he then uses to downplay the effects of the IRS system and defend his role as Minister of Indian Affairs, from 1968-1974. This is misinformation.
Residential schools were "boarding" institutions in the sense that they boarded children, but the private boarding school Chrétien attended was very different. People make this kind of false equivalence all the time to downplay the genocidal effects of residential schooling.
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Sep 29, 2021
Ahead of the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation tomorrow, I'm excited to share this new @ActiveHist piece by @katie_15m and myself on newspaper coverage of Dr. Peter Bryce's 1907 report about the horrors of residential schooling: activehistory.ca/2021/09/hiding…
It is too easy for Canadians to say that the public was not made aware of Bryce’s report and apply blame solely to church and state officials who downplayed and ignored his warnings.
The report was leaked to the public, and an examination of newspaper articles from the early 1900s reveals that readers across the country were presented with the findings.
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Sep 22, 2021
While some Canadians melt down over an Indigenous teen refusing to stand for the national anthem at school, this is a good time, as an education historian, to point out a) the anthem was only officially adopted in 1980 + b) singing it daily in schools is a recent-ish development.
Moreover, the only provinces that mandate the singing of the national anthem daily are: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Prince Edward Island. British Columbia schools must play the anthem at least 3 times at assemblies.
There is a fairly robust literature about anthems in schools and the ways in which nationalism serves colonialism. See, for example, this article and its references: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…
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Jul 8, 2021
With right-wing media in the US now targeting @HarshaWalia and deliberately twisting the "burn it all down" phrase to generate disgust and discredit struggles for systemic change, here is a thread on the long history of that 🔥 phraseology in struggles for social justice.
Historian Mark Leier's biography of Mikhail Bakunin, The Creative Passion, is so titled because Bakunin believed that "the passion for destruction is a creative passion." sfu.ca/history/public…
Bakunin did not *literally* mean the destruction of things per se; he was referring to the organized dismantling of social structures that protect injustice and oppression to radically transform society and creatively reorder it around truth, justice, and freedom.
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