By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Métis scholar Kristy McLeod is bracing for more hateful online comments when Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves hits the stores in mid-August. She wrote the book with Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad. “I’ve made as many (of my social media accounts) private as I can so that it’s not coming at me unexpectedly. But I do expect it will happen and…I don’t really do well in very strong confrontation. I mean, I can stand up for myself, but it’s not my preference…There’s a part of me that’s a little nervous and afraid of what that will be like,” she said. McLeod and Webstad have already had a taste of the vitriol, ignorance and defensiveness that has

The post Author encourages people to stand against residential school denialism appeared first on The Turtle Island News.