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Oct 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Can someone please verify this post, shared with me, is officially from Danielle Smith's Locals page (looks to be from - possibly 7 July 2022). This is textbook residential school denialism, which she has previously distanced herself from within the UCP. #DanielleSmith #Abpoli
Regardless, @ArchaeoMapper and I have already refuted the claims made above: cbc.ca/news/opinion/o…
Here is the story, from June, of Smith saying she did not attend a residential school denialism panel at a conservative conference: pressprogress.ca/top-conservati…
She's publicly trying to distance herself from key denialists - like Flanagan - who called residential schools "fake news," but the post shared above clearly engages - with her private listserve - in residential school denialism, if this is legit.

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Oct 20
Alberta's new premier, Danielle Smith, has faced a lot of criticism for her ignorant and incorrect statements about Russia's war in Ukraine and the pandemic, and she's since apologized. But she also needs to be challenged on her promotion of residential school denialism, a 🧵: Image
The image above was shared with me, and it is verified from Smith's Locals page, a creator platform popular on the right. It was created by Dave Rubin when Jordan Peterson left Patreon re: free speech issues. Subscribers can view content for free, but you must pay to comment.
CW: This thread will deal with residential school details and IRS denialism that may be difficult content for some. Please reach out if you need supports: irsss.ca/faqs/how-do-i-…
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Oct 18
I'm very honoured to have won the @CHEA_ACHE Best Article Prize for a piece I published in the @HistEdSocUK journal on Indigenous children attending public schools in British Columbia, 1872-1925. Thanks to my peers for the recognition! #histed ImageImage
Here is the article if you are interested: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…. If you don't have access through your academic/public library, hit me up and I will get you access.
The full research is available in my new book Lessons in Legitimacy: ubcpress.ca/lessons-in-leg…
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Oct 18
Historian of schooling here: efforts to rebuff anti-racist education are driven by the desire to protect the power/profits of white supremacy in settler capitalist societies like Canada. Treating racism as a bad apple - rather than a systemic problem - protects that system.
Schooling has *never* been just about teaching "literacy, numeracy, and be skills and knowledge based." Never. It has always been, at core, also a tool of socioeconomic legitimization and colonial world-making, as I argue in this @ConversationCA piece: theconversation.com/reckoning-with…
Trying to frame schooling as an objective, neutral project is laughable and should be challenged and discredited for the ideological bs it is.
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Sep 13
Now that Pierre Poilievre is officially the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, let's examine his and the CPC's recent connections to residential school denialism, a thread🧵:
Former leader, Erin O'Toole, was caught on camera in 2019 coaching right-wing students on how to use residential school denialism to score cheap political points. He argued that the goal of IRS was to "provide education" (it was forced assimilation): pressprogress.ca/erin-otoole-cl…
To be clear, residential school denialism is not the outright denial of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system’s existence, but rather the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schooling to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.
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Sep 12
Since the Queen's death, there's been an uptick in people sharing the conspiracy theory that QEII disappeared 10 children from the Kamloops Indian Residential School during a trip in 1964. As an historian concerned with IRS misinformation and denialism, here's a 🧵debunking it:
The main goals of this thread: 1. to debunk the conspiracy theory; 2. to suggest why people might be drawn to it; and 3. to explain why the sharing of this misinformation can fuel IRS denialism and further impede truth and reconciliation efforts.
1. The conspiracy theory holds that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Kamloops IRS in 1964 where 10 children disappeared at a picnic. The Queen toured Canada that year, but did not go to Kamloops or BC.
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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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