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First Nations leaders call on universities to ban residential school denialist demonstrations
A First Nations PhD student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) says a demonstration last week created an unsafe space on campus for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis staff and students.
“UBC should have done a better job at protecting us,” said Tarene Thomas, who belongs to the Enoch Cree Nation, and is Tahltan, Gitxsan and Haisla.
“And they failed to do that.”
OneBC, a provincial political party criticized by scholars and First Nations leaders for pushing residential school denialist and anti-Indigenous rhetoric, held a demonstration Jan. 22 in the square outside the Vancouver-based university’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.