Far right conspiracy theories and residential school denialism

“First One to Shine”: Reflections on My Indian Residential School Experience

If you want to learn the truth about a time and place, it would make sense to ask some of those who were there. In this heartfelt memoir, Elaine Ayoungman Clifton, who was born into the Siksika First Nation near Calgary, tells a story today’s activists don’t want you to hear. Far from an instrument of repression and evil, the Indian Residential School she attended for a decade was warm and welcoming, the teachers caring and conscientious. They i…

Far right conspiracy theories and residential school denialism

In recent decades, Indigenous sovereignty and justice movements have won wide solidarity across Canadian society. This can be seen by ongoing support for Grassy Narrows mercury justice, the 2020 Shut Down Canada movement in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders, and the 2021 mass mobilizations supporting grieving Indigenous communities across Turtle Island after ground penetrating radar (GPR) confirmed unmarked graves on former Indian Resi…