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Settler historian/Indigenous Studies professor. Author: Lessons in Legitimacy (2022); Co-editor: Dissenting Traditions (2021); Co-founder @GHC_Comics .

Winnipeg, Treaty 1

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Sean Carleton

1 year

I'm happy to share that today is the release of the paperback edition of my book Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia:

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Lessons in Legitimacy

Lessons in Legitimacy - Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia; Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and...

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Sean Carleton

3 years

In less than two years, we’ve gone from “we’re all in this together” and “flatten the curve to support frontliners” to “it’s your duty to keep working and get sick/die for the economy.” COVID is the virus, but capitalism has always been the pandemic.

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It’s so frustrating, as an historian of Indigenous-settler relations, to hear fellow settlers say that treaties give Indigenous peoples “special privileges.” Without those treaties, settlers wouldn’t have the “special privilege” of living here. We need more treaty education.

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3 years

Truth and reconciliation.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

If you're a settler feeling lost as to where to "start" to learn more about residential schooling, I'm a non-Indigenous historian of the system. To help play my role, I'm making myself available to field your questions and to provide accessible resources etc. Hit me up.

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Dr. Kisha Supernant, social agitator (she/her).

3 years

Non-Indigenous folks - do not asks Indigenous friends and colleagues for our time and energy. Do not ask us what you can do. Do not burden us with your guilt. Amplify our voices. Commit to the work. Call for the truth. Deeply listen to survivors. Take action.

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Canada: this is just a reminder from a friendly historian that the RCMP was *literally* created to check and suppress Indigenous resistance to colonization and capitalist accumulation. What is going on at #Unistoten is not an anomaly, a "one-time" deal; it is Canada.

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Sean Carleton

2 months

Historian of schooling here to remind everyone that public universities are not, in fact, businesses.

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The Globe and Mail

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Opinion: Facing pro-Palestinian protests, universities must realize they are businesses - and act like it

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Banning talk of "decolonization" on X is the most predictable, colonizer response to decolonization.

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@JeffFynnPaul For people new to this hot mess, Jeff's been at this white innocence project for a while. No credible historian takes him seriously. Even Foreign Policy eviscerated his "ideas," here's a good read to get you caught up:

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How Bad History Feeds Far-Right Fantasies

Justifying colonialism’s atrocities plays a toxic role in politics today.

foreignpolicy.com

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I see some confusion re: the relationship between residential schools and "Canada Day," so as an historian let me clarify: residential schools were developed and defended by Canada as part of its strategy of colonization + nation-building; Canada and the schools are intertwined.

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Mulroney loved Canada *so much* that he sent in the army to end the 1990 Mohawk resistance, defending the right of settlers to build a golf course and condos over an Indigenous cemetery. That’s how much he loved Canada aka capitalist accumulation by colonial dispossession.

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Justin Trudeau

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Brian Mulroney loved Canada. I’m devastated to learn of his passing. He never stopped working for Canadians, and he always sought to make this country an even better place to call home. I’ll never forget the insights he shared with me over the years – he was generous, tireless,

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Canadians, a few weeks ago, responding to #ShutDownCanada : all these Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions are inconvenient and hurting the economy. We can't just cancel everything to fix social problems. Canadians, now, responding to #COVID19 : #CancelEverythingNow #ShutDownCanada

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3 years

As an historian of residential schooling with a family member still suffering from their experiences in a BC school, I just want to encourage folks to read the TRC's report in light of recent events. It's free online. We need truth before reconciliation:

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4 years

As a historian trained in political economy, it is my duty to inform you (and other Canadians) that free market capitalism did not, in fact, build this country. Indigenous genocide did; captitalist accumulation proceeded because of government facilitated colonial dispossession.

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Andrew Scheer

4 years

Why is the CBC acting like capitalism is a bad thing? The CBC posted an article quoting a university professor who argued the children’s TV show, Paw Patrol, encourages children to embrace capitalism. Free market capitalism built our country. So lets celebrate it, not condemn it!

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Pretty wild to watch Canadian media pretend that the 1990 Oka “Crisis” didn’t happen, that Mulroney didn’t send in the army to intimidate, harass, and suppress Indigenous Peoples for having the audacity to *checks notes* prevent a golf course being built over their cemetery 🙃

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3 years

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.

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CANADA: this is a reminder, from a historian of Indigenous-settler relations who teaches a course on the 1990 Oka conflict, that the events of 1990 started with the Mayor of Oka enforcing an injunction on unceded land so that a golf course could be built over a Mohawk graveyard.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Conrad Black is not an historian. His rambly, regressive hot takes on Canadian history for the National Post are embarrassing and best ignored. Yours sincerely, an actual historian.

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1 year

PSA: updating the Canadian passport - which happens regularly - does not erase Canadian history. Neither does removing a problematic statue, changing the name of a school or building etc. That’s not how history works. Sincerely, An actual Canadian historian.

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2 years

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 🧵:

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I don't think a lot of #Canucks fans realize that Gino Odjick wore the number 29 to honour his father, Joseph, a Survivor of the Spanish Indian Residential School in Ontario. He was given 29 as his registration number at the school. Here's more about Gino:

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4 years

Treaty Map of Canada for Treaty Recognition Week.

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4 years

Canadians: wow, I just can't believe the extent of government-sanctioned police and military violence in the US right now. That would never happen here. Me, as the 30th anniversary of the so-called Oka Crisis draws closer: *stares in historian*

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4 years

The Queen's University Law School voted 29-3 to change the name of Sir John A. Macdonald Hall. Although people like Erin don't like it, as an historian let me be clear: reconsidering honorific names is not cancel culture nor is it destroying history. That's not how history works.

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Erin O'Toole

4 years

Cancel culture strikes again. We can’t keep destroying our history.

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Earlier this year, @UAlberta said their hands were tied about a residential school genocide denialist speaking/fundraising on campus despite pressure from students and faculty. Today, they immediately called in riot police to crack down on their students for protesting a genocide

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The Government of Canada unanimously passed a motion on Thursday to recognize residential schooling as genocide. Unsurprisingly, the National Post published an oped today by Chris Dummitt debating the definition of genocide. Here's a thread on how this kind of denialism works🧵:

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Let's remember that *just in December* the Conservative Leader, Erin O'Toole, was caught on camera coaching right-wing students on how to use residential school denialism to score cheap political points:

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Erin O’Toole Claimed Residential School Architects Only Meant to ‘Provide Education’ to Indigenou...

O’Toole shared tips with Ryerson campus conservatives over Zoom on how to win a debate against Liberals about residential schools

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3 years

Normalize confronting residential school denialists. That's it. That's the tweet.

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Many of the insufferable, chest-pumping Canada Day articles this week briefly referred to residential schooling as a “dark chapter,” an unfortunate blip; this kind of minimization must stop! The IRS system ran from 1883 to 1997. That’s 114 years!

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3 years

Jason Kenney implying yesterday, without evidence, that northern Alberta's spike in COVID-19 cases is the result of vaccine hesitancy in Indigenous communities - and not mass resource extraction camps and community transmission - is straight up anti-Indigenous racism.

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3 years

This is upsetting news, but the community had a feeling and the discovery confirms what many of us know to be the truth: that the residential school system was genocidal and its effects are ongoing.

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CFJC Today Kamloops

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Tk'emlups confirms bodies of 215 children buried at former #Kamloops Indian Residential School site | #BREAKING :

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1 year

I get that @ABDanielleSmith is taking heat for making strange comments about Nazis and posting links to antisemitic blogs. She should also, though, be roundly critiqued for promoting residential school denialism and extreme right-wing conspiracies that no children died.

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To be clear, there was an alternative pipeline route approved by the hereditary chiefs the whole time, but CLG didn’t want to have to absorb the costs of rerouting so they pressed on and created this entire conflict to protect their bottom line. That’s capitalism for you.

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andrew kurjata

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Why Coastal GasLink says it rejected a pipeline route endorsed by Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs | CBC News

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3 years

Canadians have a tough choice this #CanadaDay :

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What do all of these four people have in common? Answer: they all engage/promote residential school denialism. Here's a 🧵with the receipts.

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3 years

I'm just an historian, but I'm pretty sure Louis Riel and the Winnipeg Police don't share the same vision of how to treat Indigenous people.

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Winnipeg Police

3 years

We proudly celebrate the vision of Louis Riel, the founder of Manitoba, that we are a province that embraces all cultures!

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4 years

Genocide denial is not a good look, Erin.

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Erin O'Toole

4 years

Canada wouldn't exist without Sir John A. Macdonald. Canada is a great county, and one we should be proud of. We will not build a better future by defacing our past. It's time politicians grow a backbone and stand up for our country.

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4 years

This is probably a good a time to remind folks that Senator Lynn Beyak illegally donated to Donald Trump's failed re-election bid - just so we are clear on the political commitments of residential school deniers:

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Senator Lynn Beyak donated to Donald Trump's re-election campaign | CBC News

Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak — who has been suspended twice from the Senate over her comments about the residential school system — donated to the Republican National Committee in May despite a U.S....

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4 years

This week has revealed what S. Razack calls Canada's racial "amnesia," the persistent denial of our long history of racism. As an historian, this forgetting is frustrating but not surprising. Here's a thread, using Heritage Minutes, to show how this amnesia is actually learned.

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As an historian, let me clarify. Contrary to Kenney's view that John A. Macdonald "took positions on issues at the time that we now judge harshly," Indigenous peoples judged the residential school system harshly from the start as did some settlers:

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Kenney speaks out against 'cancel culture' in Canada, Treaty 6 grand chief responds

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney spoke out Tuesday afternoon about what he calls an ongoing 'cancel culture' in Canada and warned if it continues, most of the country’s founding fathers could one-day be...

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What a devastating critique of Canada's white fragility re: the national anthem right now. If you see the truth as a threat...well, that is pretty revealing. Truth before reconciliation.

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As a University of Alberta alum, I am disgusted and disappointed that administration would rather use riot cops to violently repress students than listen to their peaceful demands to divest from a genocide. This, to be clear, is a failure of leadership.

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Terrill Tailfeathers

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This is what happening right now. This is going to have lasting impacts on University of Alberta as people around the world watch the brutality you inflicted on your students by sending riot cops on them.

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Saw lots of people today asking, but where does it end? Answer: when we stop publicly celebrating imperialists, enslavers, and architects of genocide as a way of legitimizing ongoing colonialism.

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Sean Carleton

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Police quickly cut off access to Jeremy Skibicki's facebook pages after he was arrested, but not before I was able to confirm that he was spreading residential school denialism around the time of his serial killings of Indigenous women in Winnipeg. Here are the screengrabs:

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2 years

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🧵:

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Residential school denialism takes many forms, including showing symbolic remorse for photo ops but building your entire political brand around defending the uncritical celebration of the architect of the residential school system, John A. Macdonald, like @erinotoole .

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3 years

All of the John A. Macdonald defenders are pretty quiet right now.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Quick history/political economy lesson: Canada was *literally* created by segregating Indigenous Peoples on reserves and imposing the Indian Act to "open" lands and create the "freedom" to facilitate colonial dispossession, capitalist accumulation, and Canadian nation-building.

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4 years

As an historian it is important to me that Canadians understand why this statement is wrong. First, the village is actually 14,000 years old. Second, Canada is only 152. Third, the village's inhabitants were not "prehistoric Canadians," but Indigenous people (possibly Heiltsuk).

@BobRae48

Bob Rae

4 years

A student found an ancient Canadian village that's 10,000 years older than the Pyramids

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Sean Carleton

3 years

"No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous People" - Prime Minister Trudeau, 21 June 2017.

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Sean Carleton

2 months

Why do Indigenous Peoples get “things for free,” complains the fools of a society founded - and maintained - on stolen Indigenous land.

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Toronto Star

2 months

The Toronto Zoo has announced it will begin offering year-round complimentary general admission to First Nations, Inuit and Métis People.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

To all those Canadians smugly thinking this week that it is only the US that has rampant racist killings, machismo gun culture, and systemic injustice:

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Man accused of killing two Metis hunters pleads not guilty to second-degree murder

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2 years

As a Canadian historian, the true “disgrace” here is the butchering of history: a) Macdonald didn’t build the railway, Chinese migrant workers did b) the railway was a destructive tool of settler capitalism c) changes to commemoration don’t erase history, that’s not how it works.

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Regan Watts 🇨🇦

2 years

Our founding Prime Minister. The man who built the railway that united our country. We can certainly learn from our history, but we cannot and should not erase our history. And certainly not the impact of our first Prime Minister. What a disgrace.

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4 years

In a week filled with ignorant and arrogant settler politicians saying some pretty wild things, Scheer telling Indigenous peoples to “check their privilege” takes the colonial cake.

@PnPCBC

Power & Politics

4 years

“These protesters, these activists may have the luxury of spending days at a time on a blockade, but they need to check their privilege,” said @AndrewScheer . “They need to check their privilege and let people whose job depends on the railway system...do their jobs.” #cdnpoli

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3 years

A lot of settler Canadians in my mentions right now:

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Sean Carleton

4 years

For all my historians out there.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

The Whole Foods #poppy ban is a corollary of their decision to ban workers from wearing Black Lives Matter masks this summer. And, I know, you'll say the poppy is just a sign of respect but a BLM mask is "political," and I'm here to tell you that's how white supremacy works.

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Montreal’s Macdonald statue has fallen. I know settlers are going to loose their minds, but as an historian I have to remind folks that JAM, in addition to using starvation politics to pursue western colonization, was the architect of Canada’s genocidal residential school system.

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Jaggi Singh

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The John A. Macdonald statue in Montreal has fallen! It was taken down minutes ago by anonymous protesters at the end of the #DefundThePolice demo.

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Sean Carleton

1 month

“Oasis of peace.”

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The Globe and Mail

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Globe editorial: Canada is an oasis of peace worth the work

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1. It seems this tweet is hitting a nerve. I'm having a hard time keeping up with up the comments, questions, + threats. Now that the #Unistoten solidarity actions have finished for today, I wanted to take just a few moments to reflect +offer some further thoughts as a historian.

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1 year

Every performance of Canada’s national anthem is a land acknowledgment (in the white possessive sense); this slight tweak reflects a more honest account of Canada’s past and present.

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Andrew Boozary MD

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“Our home ON native land” - @JullyBlack 🙌🏽

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Sean Carleton

4 years

As a professional historian, let me reassure you: that’s not how history works. Removing a statue uncritically celebrating a genocidal politician such as Macdonald does not erase him from history; it’s just a statue.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

You know who was very much in favour of "cancel culture"? John A. Macdonald. As prime minister he used his power to support a number of genocidal policies - Indian Residential Schooling, bans on Indigenous ceremonies etc - in an effort to cancel Indigenous culture.

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As an historian, it is my public duty to inform you that taking down statues uncritically commemorating imperialists, white suprematists, and architects of genocide is not erasing history. That’s not how history works.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

In light of sports teams in Cleveland, Washington, and Edmonton getting rid of racist and appropriated Indigenous team names/logos, it's time to have a discussion about the Vancouver @Canucks 's Indigenous appropriated Orca logo. Here's a thread.

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Sean Carleton

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Just a quick note: the right-wing extremist who just confronted Trudeau while on vacation to get clicks on his propaganda site is the same former Rebel News guy who collaborated with a white supremacist to invent the so-called "mass grave hoax" conspiracy theory. Don't be fooled.

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Happening in Winnipeg right now.

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Sean Carleton

1 year

Pretty revealing that the same people demanding that First Nations exhume potential unmarked graves at residential school sites are now the ones refusing to support #SearchTheLandfill to locate murdered Indigenous women. Why? Answer: anti-Indigenous racism and hatred.

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Sean Carleton

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Continuing to fight Indigenous kids in court is a strange way to "honour their memory."

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Justin Trudeau

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My heart breaks for the Cowessess First Nation following the discovery of Indigenous children buried at the former Marieval Residential School. We cannot bring them back, but we will honour their memory and we will tell the truth about these injustices.

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Next week is the 3rd anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc's announcement re: potential unmarked graves at the Kamloops residential school, and the flurry of residential school denialism has already started. So, here's a 🧵with receipts and resources to hold space for truth.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

This image of Queen Victoria's head in the Assiniboine River sure is a way to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 1 (the first of the Numbered Treaties, signed in Vicky's name in 1871). Say what you want about statues, THIS is commemoration to remember.

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Sean Carleton

2 years

Here's a thread about residential school denialism, using this example 🧵

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Jonathan Kay

2 years

Not a single grave has yet been identified—let alone 215 of them. But if Tim Hortons' archaeological & forensics teams have evidence to report, maybe let us know about that instead of tweeting about orange donuts.

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How it started/How it's going

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Sean Carleton

4 years

Folks outraged about the vaccine tourist couple that travelled a great distance to steal from Indigenous peoples for their own benefit are in for a *trip* when they find out how Canada was created and the ongoing theft of Indigenous lands and resources that underpins it today.

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One of the “noble causes” Mulroney spent his political capital on was deploying Canada’s military against Mohawks in 1990 to protect Canada’s right to trample Indigenous rights to build golf courses and condos on unceded lands and cemeteries.

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Awanish Sinha

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“You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.” - The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney 🇨🇦

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Sean Carleton

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In the last 36 hours, statues uncritically celebrating slavers, imperialists, and white supremacists have been toppled/graffitied/thrown in lakes and the sea. As an historian, let me say: this is the kind of creative reckoning with the past that gives me hope for the future.

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Just a reminder that Conrad Black, who’s behind the residential school denialist movement in Canada, is in Jefferey Epstein’s black book, went to jail for fraud, and wrote this odd book about Trump. And he thinks *I* shouldn’t be taken seriously. Lol.

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This time, around Orange Shirt Day, is difficult for many Survivors as they share truths about their residential school experiences. It is also a time where we unfortunately see a rise in IRS denialism. Here's a thread for settlers on how to combat it and hold space for truth🧵

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3 years

This week in Reconciliation TM

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Sean Carleton

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Manitoba “stood firm” in ousting Heather Stefanson, and you love to see the PC’s horribly racist campaign be rejected from majority power. But, the rhetoric the PC’s used will linger and needs to be challenged and changed in the period ahead. Lots of work still to do.

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Sean Carleton

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Calling to retire the term genocide while a genocide is happening because it makes those committing genocide (and those who support it/are complicit) uncomfortable - to be clear - is how genocide happens when it could be stopped.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

“Yes, he (Macdonald) had flaws but he built this great country” is a retort I’ve seen over and over today. Listen, orchestrating a genocide isn’t just a “flaw” - what’s wrong with you? - and Macdonald “built this country” by orchestrating and defending that genocide, to be clear.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

The RCMP have now deleted this tweet, but in the spirit of #RCMPNeverForget here it is.

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Sean Carleton

1 year

Pretty sad to think that the residential school denialist "movement" is just a handful of retired, non-expert academics and cancelled pundits who write denialist articles for far-right websites - often the ones they run - for profit. It's the monetization of misinformation.

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Sean Carleton

4 months

The descent into residential school denialism, a short history:

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Sean Carleton

4 years

Just in the *last week* police in Canada have: -stood by while white fishers terrorize Mi’kmaw -arrested Secwepemc land defenders on their unceded territory -threatened Wet'suwet'en with arrest again -shot up #1492LandBackLane with rubber bullets, escalated the situation

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Sean Carleton

1 year

An oldie but a goodie:

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Sean Carleton

3 years

If your response to news of unmarked graves at residential schools has been to get indignant and dig in your heels about unreservedly celebrating Canada this July 1, well, now you know why the IRS system was allowed to run for 100+ years even though its horrors were well-known.

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Sean Carleton

3 months

The National Post's new residential school denialism just dropped. Since it's a weekend oped in a national newspaper, I'll explain why this kind of denialism (complaining about the so-called "blood libel" re: IRS unmarked graves) needs to be directly confronted. Here's a🧵

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Sean Carleton

1 year

Some think that residential school denialism is just right-wing bots, but here are political leaders who've recently promoted denialism, with receipts: -Erin O'Toole, 2020 (Leader of the CPC) -Danielle Smith, 2022 (Premier of Alberta) -Maxime Bernier, 2023 (Leader of the PPC).

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Canadians are so committed to reconciliation, so invested in the idea of Canada as the most tolerant and compassionate place on the planet, that they, *checks notes*, can't not blow up some fireworks and flag wave obnoxiously while many Indigenous peoples are in mourning?

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Just sitting here still thinking about Chrétien's residential denialism again. What sets this example apart from others is that Chrétien WAS INVOLVED in overseeing the IRS system. He's not just spreading misinformation, he's trying to re-write his own history and absolve himself.

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Sean Carleton

5 months

This is how colonial amnesia works: we (rightly) celebrate Mandela for coming to thank Canada/Mulroney for supporting justice in June 1990 but omit the Oka Crisis, which starts in July 1990, where Canada/Mulroney sends its military against Indigenous Peoples fighting for justice.

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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦

5 months

Many forget that #BrianMulroney led the fight against #Apartheid in South Africa and pushed other countries into sanctions. Four months after #NelsonMandela was freed from prison, he travelled to Canada to speak in @OurCommons to thank Canada for its support. #RIPBrianMulroney

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Sean Carleton

4 years

I can’t believe this needs saying, but here we are. #ShutDownCanada and solidarity blockades and occupations are not “the problem,” they are a response to the problem: Canada’s ongoing commitment to colonialism and its failure to work nation-to-nation with Indigenous peoples.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Right-wing ideologues like Jason Kenney et al. defending John A. Macdonald and other architects of the residential schooling from "cancel culture" is a bit rich considering those same architects deliberately created a genocidal school system to cancel Indigenous culture.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Here's the Queen Victoria statue being toppled today in Winnipeg. Victoria was the reigning monarch when Canada created the Indian Residential School system in the early 1880s.

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Sean Carleton

4 years

Contrary to what some settlers might think, using force and coercion like this is *actually* a sign of weakness. It reveals that Canada lacks the courage and conviction to use diplomacy and nation-to-nation negotiations to resolve its problems. And, force only makes things worse.

@BoyerMichel

Michel Boyer

4 years

WATCH: Police move in on rail blockade near Belleville, Ont.

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@SeanCarleton

Sean Carleton

5 months

Every time you hear “Brian Mulroney really loved Canada” in the next few days, remember that what that phrase really means is that he sought to defend the settler capitalist project of Canada at every turn. “Canada” in the discourse to come is code for white possession.

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Sean Carleton

2 years

As a Canadian historian, I have a responsibility to point out this statement is factually incorrect.

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Dr Jordan B Peterson

@jordanbpeterson

2 years

Nazis; white supremacists. These simply do not exist in Canada. There's no culture of such things in Canada, political or otherwise.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

Colonizers deliberately removing the "unceded" part of a land acknowledgement - to conceal the naked theft of Indigenous lands at the very root of settler societies - is why land acknowledgements are still important, despite their many issues and complications.

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Sean Carleton

3 years

As a historian of settler capitalism, I'll just point out that the "miraculous free market" doesn't exist, especially in Canada where the state has always facilitated, in unfair and decidedly interventionist ways, capitalist accumulation by coercive and violent dispossession.

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National Post

3 years

Follow our new series that raises a toast to the miraculous free market. Starts Dec. 18 in the National Post or read it online now.

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