Sean Carleton
@seancarleton.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
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Sean Carleton
@seancarleton.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Today, in Montreal, I was honoured to be inducted into to the Royal Society of Canada as a member of the RSC College. I’m looking forward to using the platform to fight residential school denialism and further truth and reconciliation.
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Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?
Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?
Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisy
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?
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I can say, having seen most of these, that it’s a wonderful collection of films and you wouldn’t have regrets if you systematically worked your way through the list. A great starter pack for Canadian film.
January 10, 2026 at 6:37 AM
I can say, having seen most of these, that it’s a wonderful collection of films and you wouldn’t have regrets if you systematically worked your way through the list. A great starter pack for Canadian film.
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NYTimes: "local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.”
@doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
@doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Opinion: Video record of ICE killing Minnesota mom lays bare Trump’s disgraceful lies
There were stuffed animals spilling from the glove box of her SUV, because she was a mother. A mother of three children, including a six-year-old who was thankfully in school that day, and not in the ...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:50 PM
NYTimes: "local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.”
@doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
@doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Today we have "Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social
This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/01/05/f...
#envhist #urbanhistory
This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/01/05/f...
#envhist #urbanhistory
Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West
Industrial cities built artificial shorelines over tidal flats, creating hidden vulnerabilities now re-exposed as climate change raises seas and storms.
niche-canada.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Today we have "Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social
This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/01/05/f...
#envhist #urbanhistory
This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2026/01/05/f...
#envhist #urbanhistory
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Whether or not states like Canada lack the spine, let alone elbows, to say so, American actions in Venezuela are an unambiguous violation of the UN Charter’s prohibitions on the unilateral use of force. justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/03/v... #Venezuela
Violating international law to get rid of dictators is alluring but wrong – and dangerous
Scenes in Caracas following American strikes in the Venezuelan capital There is an alluring idea that anything – including illegal action – should be taken to protect people from dictators. It is t…
justiceinconflict.org
January 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Whether or not states like Canada lack the spine, let alone elbows, to say so, American actions in Venezuela are an unambiguous violation of the UN Charter’s prohibitions on the unilateral use of force. justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/03/v... #Venezuela
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"The US is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire," by Nathan Akehurst in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
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The US Is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire
The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is a crude act of Trumpian aggression. Yet it also illustrates the US leadership’s weakness, as it moves to lock down control of the Western Hemis...
jacobin.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:59 AM
"The US is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire," by Nathan Akehurst in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2026/01/us-t...
jacobin.com/2026/01/us-t...
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"The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty is compelled to deny and refuse what it cannot own - the sovereignty of the Indigenous other" (179).
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty is compelled to deny and refuse what it cannot own - the sovereignty of the Indigenous other" (179).
If you’re looking for an accessible and engaging history of American imperialism right now, I can’t recommend A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more. Check it out.
January 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
If you’re looking for an accessible and engaging history of American imperialism right now, I can’t recommend A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more. Check it out.
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We need to change the way we use Indigenous names for streets, towns, buildings, etc... substack.com/@rjjago/note...?
Robert Jago (@rjjago)
Controversial Opinion: if you are naming something in the public realm in an Indigenous language, and that language doesn’t use the standard alphabet, it should come with a transliteration below it in...
substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We need to change the way we use Indigenous names for streets, towns, buildings, etc... substack.com/@rjjago/note...?
“Reconciliation will destroy Canada” - the usual suspects; combined age 308.
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Reconciliation will destroy Canada” - the usual suspects; combined age 308.
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David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1
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The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.
This is extremely concerning, showing the global spread of residential school denialism on the extreme far right.
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is extremely concerning, showing the global spread of residential school denialism on the extreme far right.
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PODCAST UP! Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada .
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December 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
PODCAST UP! Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada .
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@seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social
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I joined Vancouver’s Redeye show to talk OneBC, their residential school denialist film, and how the far-right is using anti-Indigenous racism to protect the settler capitalist status quo - and how we can fight this scourge to build a more honourable future: coopradio.org/shows/redeye/
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I joined Vancouver’s Redeye show to talk OneBC, their residential school denialist film, and how the far-right is using anti-Indigenous racism to protect the settler capitalist status quo - and how we can fight this scourge to build a more honourable future: coopradio.org/shows/redeye/
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As the Red Ensign and variants appear prominently in this group's display, it seems a good time to reshare my brief history of the Ensign's use by extremists. British Israelism, fluoride, and the Rothschilds - oh my! #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli
activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As the Red Ensign and variants appear prominently in this group's display, it seems a good time to reshare my brief history of the Ensign's use by extremists. British Israelism, fluoride, and the Rothschilds - oh my! #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli
activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...
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Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes?
I...love it?
I...love it?
Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes?
I...love it?
I...love it?
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Saturday | 10:05 PT Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada @seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social #indigenous #bcpoli
December 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Saturday | 10:05 PT Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada @seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social #indigenous #bcpoli
Residential school denialists - who hitched their wagon to OneBC (which has now imploded over support for a neo-Nazi who has openly denied the Holocaust) - are now trying to move on with their rage stunts without the OneBC baggage - but the damage’s been done.
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Residential school denialists - who hitched their wagon to OneBC (which has now imploded over support for a neo-Nazi who has openly denied the Holocaust) - are now trying to move on with their rage stunts without the OneBC baggage - but the damage’s been done.
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Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Wolseley School to be renamed Little Bluestem School
Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park. The Winnipeg School Division’s boa...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
OneBC is ripping itself apart, just a week after making residential school denialism its singular obsession, and you absolutely love to see it.
And just like that - OneBC party looks like it will split amongst itself - and a party with only one member is not an official party in British Columbia. This coincides with the loss of senior staff within the organization today #bcpoli
December 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
OneBC is ripping itself apart, just a week after making residential school denialism its singular obsession, and you absolutely love to see it.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, residential school denialism is a loser movement: it’s anti-Indigenous content created by losers for losers who want to denigrate dead Indigenous children on the internet rather than put truth before reconciliation.
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, residential school denialism is a loser movement: it’s anti-Indigenous content created by losers for losers who want to denigrate dead Indigenous children on the internet rather than put truth before reconciliation.