Editors’ note: Jerome Turner is a celebrated Gitxsan journalist who won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ highest honour, the President’s Award, for his ‘moral courage’ covering RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en land defenders in 2020. Today, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs condemned a planned event at UBC, calling it an excuse to promote racist misinformation about residential schools. Turner recently hit the road to Kamloops, hot on the trail of the gang of fringe figures holding these events across British Columbia.
I unfortunately have. A relative no less. From my non-FN side of the family.
I mean yeah, I’m not trying to say that nobody thinks this way, there’s always those dingbats that don’t understand the situation, have no knowledge of it, but feel they can make some kind of statement.
I’m just trying to say it’s an extremely fringe belief, and really nobody takes it seriously.
Fair dues.