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Sean Carleton

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Historian/Indigenous Studies. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions; Direct Action Gets the Goods; 1919; Drawn to Change; May Day. www.seancarleton.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · Sep 28

Hi folks: my name is Sean Carleton. I'm a settler historian of colonialism and schooling at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Treaty 1 Territory. I'm looking forward to engaging with and learning from you all on this new, less fascist-y platform.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 1d

"Denialism is not an Indigenous problem; confronting it is a Canadian responsibility...Truth & reconciliation cannot survive if the truth is minimized, downplayed or disavowed."

Critically important piece by @seancarleton.bsky.social & @truthinthesoil.bsky.social theconversation.com/confronting-...

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility

Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

theconversation.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

"The responsibility to show we have actually changed, and to repair the catastrophic damage the Residential Schools have wrought isn’t with the people of the past. It is here and now and with us" - @rjjago.bsky.social

Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 8d

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Residential schools still exist in our world today. This is the lesson Canadians can draw from that disturbing truth

Canadians think about residential schools as if they were a creature of the past, an ancient moral failing from which we have since evolved. But around the world new residential

www.thestar.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

Also, what kind of journalist would not disclose that the person he is talking about in this tweet (below)....IS HIS WIFE? Oh, right, the same kind of activist who is promoting a far-right Christian nationalist, IRS denialist conspiracy theory. You goofs are cooked.

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

As @truthinthesoil.bsky.social have argued, confronting this residential school denialism - ways that do not give these people the attention they are hoping to manufacture through free speech stunts like this - is an ethical and shared responsibility: theconversation.com/confronting-...

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility

Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

theconversation.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

What these people are doing is engaging in deprived denialism - often denigrating dead children and giving cover for pedophiles - as a way of protecting church, state, and nation. It's gross. They are causing a tremendous amount of harm and profiting from it.

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

Guess who was working for True North News, the publisher of the Grave Error far-right propaganda book that has given IRS denialism a bump? You can see the pattern.

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

Guess who wrote a kids book defending John A. Macdonald from the woke mob? You don't need to guess:

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

This appears to be a stunt, like other denialists do, to manufacture a crisis that frames them as a victim; its a move to innocence. In context, we can see through this quite clearly. Here are some receipts.

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 6d

For context, the BC Conservative staffer fired for spreading residential school denialism on Orange Shirt Day has a long and clear history of promoting anti-Indigenous, denialist content. It's no accident; they are following the far-right playbook: provoke, platform, profit🧵

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for sharing, Ryan.

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 8d

One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...

Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism

Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.

theconversation.com

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 8d

"Residential school denialism is not simply an alternate perspective. It is a form of harm that retraumatizes Survivors, undermines truth and perpetuates colonial ideas that jeopardize Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples..." –
@seancarleton.bsky.social @truthinthesoil.bsky.social

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for sharing!

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 8d

"Confronting denialism is an ethical and shared responsibility."

Read the full piece by @seancarleton.bsky.social @truthinthesoil.bsky.social via @ca.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/confronting-... #OrangeShirtDay #NDTR #EveryChildMatters

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility

Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

theconversation.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 9d

Ahead of this year's Orange Shirt Day, I had the great honour of speaking with Kimberly Murray about the need to fight residential school denialism and stand up for the truth about residential schooling. Thanks to the Centre for Human Rights Research for their support: chrr.info/resource/fig...

Fighting Denialism and Standing Up for the Truth About Residential Schooling - Centre for Human Rights Research

Residential school denialism is on the rise. Niigaan Sinclair and Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba professors and CHRR Research Affiliates, are working on a new book collection that will help peo...

chrr.info

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 10d

A big win today - for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and truth and reconciliation- at the annual Orange Shirt Day game. Thanks to @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and everyone for making Winnipeg a leader in this important game.

Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 12d

Given recent concerning events, @TruthInTheSoil and I have decided to speak out about the harm and harassment of residential school denialism, arguing in this new piece for The Conversation that confronting it is an ethical and shared responsibility: news.umanitoba.ca/the-conversa...

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry, have you added a dog??

Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Mark

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 15d

Resisting U.S. aggression can't be achieved by hiding from our history of colonial atrocities & denying Indigenous rights. That's not "elbows up"; it is a distraction from putting truth before reconciliation.

Crucial reminder from Ellen Gabriel & @seancarleton.bsky.social 👇

Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 16d

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism

Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.

canadiandimension.com

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 16d

Not sure what you mean?

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