By Shari Narine Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Benjamin Kucher, president of the Indigenous Graduate Students’\u00a0Association (ISGA) at the University of Alberta, says denialism about the harmful legacy of Indian residential schools has picked up. He doesn’t have to go far to illustrate his point. As the association prepares to host University of Manitoba historian and Indigenous Studies assistant professor Sean Carleton on Thursday to speak to that denialism, Frances Widdowson, who was let go in 2021 by Calgary’s Mount Royal University for voicing residential school denialism, will be giving a “chat” that same day entitled “Academic Freedom Under Threat.” Kucher, who is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta and anthropology student, says any number of emotions_disappointment, disillusionment and disgust_have been voiced by him and other members of the… <\/p>\n
By Shari Narine Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Benjamin Kucher, president of the Indigenous Graduate Students’\u00a0Association (ISGA) at the University of Alberta, says denialism about the harmful legacy of Indian residential schools has picked up. He doesn’t have to go far to illustrate his point. As the association prepares to host University of Manitoba historian and Indigenous Studies assistant professor Sean Carleton on Thursday to speak to that denialism, Frances Widdowson, who was let go in 2021 by Calgary’s Mount Royal University for voicing residential school denialism, will be giving a “chat” that same day entitled “Academic Freedom Under Threat.” Kucher, who is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta and anthropology student, says any number of emotions_disappointment, disillusionment and disgust_have been voiced by him and other members of the... <\/p>\n