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Manitoba historian concerned residential school denialism will rise after Biden's apology in U.S.

Dried flowers rest inside a pair of child's shoes at a memorial for children who died at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C.

Historian Sean Carleton says residential school denialism is a strategy used to twist, misrepresent and distort basic facts about residential schools to shake public confidence in the stories of survivors, and in the process of truth and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada.


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