Indian Residential Schools Research Group

The Indian Residential Schools Research Group (IRSRG) seeks to gather and promote research into the residential, industrial, and day school systems.

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Barbara Kay: It has been a demoralizing experience ... for all Canadians who put their faith in a “reconciliation” that has turned out instead to be a demand for never-ending atonement, .... All Canadians capable of critical thinking feel gaslighted by the Kamloops deception.

https://t.co/Qs5xeXhSPH

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

A Critique of “What’s fueling residential school denialism?”
https://t.co/FsMClRikcB

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Food for thought for your kids, on Indian Residential School genocide claims

https://t.co/UYuqG1t4TB

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Globe and Mail -- Adding insult to injury with a fake news apology. Ooops.

https://t.co/mwHae1QgjE

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

The Globe and Mail’s rare mea culpa raises a pressing question. Will CBC, CTV, Global, and Canada’s political leaders also acknowledge their role in spreading a false narrative that went largely unquestioned?

https://t.co/rSz54jeQpz

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Five years after the announcement that shocked the world, unanswered questions remain about residential schools, missing children, and the media's role in shaping public perception.

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[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Robert Janning's book challenges today's dominant narratives. Early Methodist missionaries in Nanaimo often respected Indigenous languages, and earned the trust of local families.

https://t.co/B4L2FfYV6c

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

"If lawmakers can jail citizens for expressing unpopular views about residential schools, free expression may become little more than fiction in Canada."

https://t.co/byD84KFSLu

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

"...I had a wonderful time while I was a student at Old Sun. ... Canadians need to realize that not all Indian residential schools were the 'mush holes' that the media present."

https://t.co/FBu0VLp9H9

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

"The University of Lethbridge has spent two years using administrative power as a weapon against a woman it refuses to debate. Edmonton is out of excuses to look away."

https://t.co/GaPGyBnQp6

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

"As activists demand ‘denialism’ laws, former residential school students with positive experiences risk being written out of history."

https://t.co/KwtzlN7CaA

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

"The yet-unproven allegation spurred a campaign of national shame, drove calls to criminalize residential school ‘denial.’"

https://t.co/uo5RmhkLGp

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

Open Letter to @ABDanielleSmith Frances Widdowson “is risking her life and limb to try and show the Canadian public how far off the rails universities have gone in terms of supporting and even pushing irrational thought and unacceptable behaviour.” https://t.co/wWd5B04zLf

[Barbara Kay @BarbaraRKay]

⁦@IRSRG_ca⁩ Great interview with Brave B.C. Politician Dallas Brodie. Perfect dovetail with my column today in ⁦@nationalpost⁩. https://t.co/f8mWJqbnye

[National Post @nationalpost]

Barbara Kay: It's 'Dead Wrong' for Canada to call residential schools genocidal https://t.co/MNXNNYYMHh

[Drea Humphrey @DreaHumphrey]

KAMLOOPS: Well, well, well, after nearly five years, and with the feds ordered to soon release documents related to the band’s false 215 unmarked grave discovery claim, Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc has quietly wiped its original statement from this webpage 🤔

Below is a screenshot from my initial report in 2021, pointing out that the sensational claim didn’t appear to be supported by evidence. I had hyperlinked their page in many reports since, which is how I know there was a recent decision to remove it.

The highlight portion of the claim that fueled the Canada is a genocidal state fire are as follows:

It is with a heavy heart that Tk'emlúps te Sewépeme Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir confirms an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School. This past weekend, with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light - the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School… “We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths," stated Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir. "Some were as young as three years old. We sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk'emlúps te Sewépeme is the final resting place of these children.”

[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

A main criticism of the TRC report by historian JR Miller was that “At no time in the history of residential schooling in Canada were parents “compelled to send their children to residential schools.”
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[Indian Residential Schools Research Group @IRSRG_ca]

“We must above all else demand that the truth be spoken about our past and our present. Immeasurable harm has been caused by Murray Sinclair and his two fellow commissioners propagating falsehoods.”

https://t.co/4xoxPpV39G

[Frances Widdowson @FrancesWiddows1]

On the influence of Kevin Annett (in my interview with Christopher Read of @APTNInvestigate)...