Jack Anawak says he doesn’t know how people can deny what occurred at residential schools. 

“It really is questionable to see whether the deniers really believe that or they just want to go through the process of assimilation and forget about the First Nations and Inuit,” he said. “It is unbelievable to see that there’s still that racism out there.”

Anawak, a longtime Nunavut politician who attended residential school at Chesterfield Inlet, said there are still people who believe residential schools were good for Indigenous people.