Its purpose is to end questioning and to patrol what knowledge we\u0027re entitled to possess
The fringe abstraction of “residential schools denialism” gained momentum precisely because its purpose is to end questioning, to enforce a system of belief and to patrol what knowledge we’re entitled to possess. “And we all know by now,” as Knowledge Keeper and Survivors Circle Elder Barbara Cameron put it, “how fringe movements can gain momentum if they are given enough attention and airtime.”
But what if the truth of this history also involves priests and nuns and teachers at the residential schools who were animated by compassion and were dedicated to nurturing their students? What about those students who fondly remember their time in the schools? Would the assertion that those stories should be told amount to the moral and legal equivalent of Holocaust denial?
That’s according to her daughter, Lea Meadows. Elsie went on to university and ended up teaching in remote Indigenous communities with her husband, a United Church Minister. They were both fluent in Saulteaux, Cree and Ojibwe, and literate in Cree syllabics. In an essay she wrote for the Calgary Herald 13 years ago, Lea reflected upon “the deep hurt my family feels at their work being routinely described as ‘abusive,’ or ‘cultural genocide.
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