A Case of Senator Lynn Beyak and Anti-Indigenous Systemic Racism in Canada

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ID21544366
AuthorsLisa Howell (0000-0002-0459-6337, University of Ottawa), Nicholas Ng-A-Fook (0000-0002-1682-3496, University of Ottawa)
Year2022
Pages1-34
Publication date2022-03-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0380-2361 • E-ISSN: 1918-5979
PublisherThe Canadian Society for the Study of Education/La Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.53967/cje-rce.v45i1.4787
OpenAlexW4220875813
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

On March 7, 2017, Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak stood up in the Red Chamber and delivered a lengthy speech urging Canadians to recognise the positive aspects of the Indian Residential Schooling system that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had failed to acknowledge. In their positions as settler teacher educators, the authors examine how Senator Beyak’s statements expose the depth of systemic settler colonialism, anti-Indigenous racisms, and unsettling beneficiary narratives here in Canada. The authors call on teacher educators to examine these systemic anti-Indigenous racisms in relation to how they can confront and disrupt settler Canadian colonialism and historical settler consciousness within teacher education and school curricula. Drawing on recent research done by educational researchers at Faculties of Education across Canada, the authors maintain that settler colonial benevolence and colonial systemic anti-Indigenous racisms can be unlearned and learned through ethical relationality, truth, and a critical praxis of reconciliation

Colonialism · Commission · Critical consciousness · Critical race theory · Curriculum · Indigenous · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Praxis · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law

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