Who Benefits from Residential School Denialism? – The Tyee

Undermining Indigenous experience aids powerful interests looking to extract resources.

Defending Indigenous land rights is not just a matter of justice, argues Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything. It may be “the last line of defence” against a juggernaut doubling down on a high-carbon economy regardless of the costs, including the possible collapse of organized human society.

Extractivist and climate-threatening projects, like the Coastal GasLink pipeline, are sometimes driven through the territories of Indigenous Peoples without their prior and informed consent.

So it’s no surprise that those who favour expanding fossil fuel and resource extraction-based development would be drawn to viewpoints — “elective affinity,” sociologist Max Weber called it — that limit or delegitimize Indigenous claims to land or self-determination.

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