Crystal Gail Fraser

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  • Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Classics, & Religion and the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Guut’àii is a Gwich’in principle often translated as “acting with one mind,” or collective strength. (Tony Devlin/Gwich'in Tribal Council)

Acting with one mind: Gwich’in lessons for truth and reconciliation

Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta

Strength is not just survival. It is how Indigenous Peoples have always transformed oppression into collective action — and how we will face residential schools denialism today.
Chaussures d'enfants sur les marches menant au site de l'ancien pensionnat indien, le Mohawk Institute, à Brantford, en Ontario, en novembre 2021. La Presse canadienne/Nick Iwanyshyn

Le négationnisme des pensionnats est une attaque contre la mémoire des survivants

Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta

Bien qu’il existe aujourd’hui un large éventail d’informations publiques sur les pensionnats, de nombreuses personnes continuent d’en avoir une connaissance limitée.
Children’s shoes over the steps leading up to the site of former Indian Residential School, the Mohawk Institute, in Brantford, Ont. in November 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nick Iwanyshyn

Residential school denialism is an attack on the truth

Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta

Although there is now a wide body of public information about residential schools, many people continue to have limited knowledge about them. That provides fertile ground for misinformation.
Instead of returning to the northern research status quo, researchers should make community health and well-being the top priority. Above: Nain, Nunatsiavut. Christina Goldhar

‘Return to normal’ travel and research may bring hazards to northern, Indigenous communities

Christina Goldhar, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Arielle Frenette, Université Laval; Crystal Gail Fraser, University of Alberta, and Julia Christensen, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Summer 2021 is too soon for southern-based researchers and travellers to return to northern, Indigenous communities in the wake of COVID-19, for research fieldwork or leisure.

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