PhD Candidate Tiffany MacLellan‘s op-ed piece, ‘The wrong way to preserve residential-school history‘, has been featured in the Montreal Gazette and in the Ottawa Citizen.
The article explores the primary goal of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which identifies “sources and [creates] a comprehensive record of the violence in residential schools”. MacLellan’s discussion takes into account the implications of the commission’s methods of obtaining such information, the resulting records, and the importance of respecting the dignity of those First Nations’ participants involved in the collection process.