Residential Schools and Unmarked Graves: Is open inquiry possible?

  Rodney Clifton, Brian Giesbrecht and Frances Widdowson discuss the Kamloops Cemetery controversy. Moderated by Paul Viminitz. Saturday, July 10, 2021 Over the last few months, hundreds of unmarked graves […]
Published on July 17, 2021

 
Rodney Clifton, Brian Giesbrecht and Frances Widdowson discuss the Kamloops Cemetery controversy. Moderated by Paul Viminitz. Saturday, July 10, 2021

Over the last few months, hundreds of unmarked graves of people connected to residential schools have been identified. It is difficult to discuss this circumstance because of the implication that examining the causes is insensitive to indigenous peoples.Rodney Clifton, Brian Giesbrecht, and Frances Widdowson discuss why open inquiry about the unmarked graves is difficult. Paul Viminitz, a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge, moderates. (2 hours 20 minutes)

 

View the full video HERE.

 

Frances Widdowson is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Associate Professor in the Department in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University.

 

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