‘I don’t need any more education’
Senator Lynn Beyak, residential school denialism, and attacks on truth and reconciliation in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18990002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Carleton (0000-0002-1211-748X, University of Manitoba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 466-486 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Settler Colonial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1838-0743 • E-ISSN: 2201-473X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2201473x.2021.1935574 |
| OpenAlex | W3173032992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
In 2017, Lynn Beyak, a Canadian Senator, delivered a controversial speech defending Canada’s Indian Residential School system (1883–1996) as being ‘well-intentioned.’ Made shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report to show Canadians the evidence of how residential schooling for Indigenous children and youth constituted genocide, the Senator’s speech sparked national debate. This article historicizes and theorizes the role of denialism in colonial settings to argue that speech acts such as Beyak’s can be understood as a discursive strategy used by colonizers to legitimize and defend their material power, privilege, and profit. The article examines Beyak’s public comments as well as 100 support letters she received and published on her Senate website to show how they embrace anti-Indigenous racism generally and employ residential school denialism specifically to attack and undermine truth and reconciliation efforts in Canada
Colonialism · Commission · Genocide · Indigenous · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
Classroom Incivility Going Viral on Social Media
A Case of Senator Lynn Beyak and Anti-Indigenous Systemic Racism in Canada
Christian summer camps for Indigenous youth in Canada
Examining indigenous perspectives through Self-Study
Canadian Multiculturalism, Identity, and Reconciliation
Educational transformation through ethical relationality in education change networks
The ongoing crisis and promise of civic education
US Federal Off-Reservation Boarding Schools and Ethnocide's Benevolent Perpetrator
Se (ré)concilier une communauté à la fois
Unbuilt Environments and the Place of Settler Colonial Communications
Using a metaphor of baskets and copper pots to identify “what work, whose work” in truth, rights, responsibilities, and reconciliation in public health
The Prevalence and Correlates of Residential School Denialism in Canada
Taxes, taxpayers, and settler colonialism
Truth before transition
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |