residential schools
SFU hosts talk on residential school denialism
February 9, 2026On January 29, Dr. Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba led a webinar titled Truth Before Reconciliation hosted by SFU’s archaeology, history, English, and Indigenous studies departments. In this webinar, Carleton aimed to address an increasing trend in mainstream Canadian media of residential school denialism, which has taken centre stage in Vancouver. The Tyee has written that “residential school denialism is not the outright denial of the Indian Residential School system’s existence, but rather the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schooling to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.” Last year, Dallas Brodie, a British Columbian MLA representing…
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Williams Lake First Nation to restore former residential school area on its own terms
March 27, 2025Content warning: brief descriptions of residential school violence and cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples, mentions of burial sites. “I grieve for all who never made it — the children who never made it home and for survivors and their families…
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Residential school deniers show us colonialism is still rampant
June 17, 2024Content warning: mentions of unmarked graves, genocide, death, and abuse. When more than 200 unmarked graves were discovered at Kamloops Residential School in 2021, a movement to uncover the extent of residential school graves gained traction. As evidence pointed to…
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Moose Hide Campaign Day combats violence against Indigenous women and children
May 30, 2024Content warning: references to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and residential schools. May 16 was Moose Hide Campaign Day, a day organized by the “BC-born Indigenous-led grassroots movement to engage men and boys in ending violence towards women…
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Joe Sacco and Glen Coulthard discuss Paying The Land
November 7, 2022Joe Sacco’s new book Paying The Land illustrates and unfolds the stories of the Dane peoples that have lived in the Mackenzie River. Their land in the Northwest Territories has valuable resources and is a central part of the Dene’s…
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Len Pierre delivers seminar calling for Indigenous cultural safety in higher education
September 13, 2022On June 20, in honour of National Indigenous Peoples month, SFU Vancouver hosted a virtual seminar to discuss the importance of implementing Indigenous cultural safety in higher education. The Decolonizing Education and Institutionalising Indigenous Cultural Safety workshop was hosted by…
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Truth and reconciliation: Tax the Church!
June 21, 2022In Canada, we’ve created a subsidy for an institution that carried out a genocide on our soil. A subsidy for an institution that, when more and more evidence of that genocide is uncovered, has to be coerced into making an…
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Cecelia Reekie discusses mourning in the Indigenous community after discovery at Kamloops
June 16, 2021Content warning: descriptions of residential school abuse, anti-Indigenous racism, and genocide The remains of 215 Indigenous children were found near a residential school in Kamloops on May 27, 2021. Their identities are not yet known. While experts said it is difficult…
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