By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com The editors of Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism admit they would rather be working with Indian residential school survivors on other issues, but the appearance of a group of masked white supremacists on the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc Nation near Kamloops, B.C. make confronting denialism a priority. “We think of our book like a toolkit. Now Canadians have a toolkit, the voices of survivors, the voices of credentialed researchers,” said co-editor Niigaan Sinclair, Anishinaabe from St. Peter’s/Little Peguis, and a professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. “Then, of course, all the different ways that we can strategize together to combat what is really a force that’s trying to encourage people to be ignorant, encourage them to believe misinformation…
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