Frances Widdowson Dedicates Her Life to Denying Residential Indian School Survivors, Then Calls Herself the Victim

She posted it on Facebook like a declaration of war. Frances Widdowson's Facebook post (April 20, 2026) sharing a University of Lethbridge trespass notice issued February 4, 2026, prohibiting her from all university lands and buildings under Alberta trespass legislation. "The University of Lethbridge just sent me a 'Notice Not to Enter University of Lethbridge Lands and Buildings,'" she wrote, in that flat, defiant register that has become her brand. "This will NOT work, University of Lethbridge. Your indoctrination of students about the #Kamloops215Deception ends this week." She calls it a deception. The children, the ones who went to school and never came home. That's the deception. Not the century of forced assimilation. Not the deliberate erasure of language, of ceremony, of kin. Not the deaths that survivors have carried in their bodies for decades, in the ache of not-quite-spoken things, in the particular silence of people who were told, over and over, that what happened to them…