ISBN: 9780774817776

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of thenotorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth andReconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the… More...

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of thenotorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth andReconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts betweenAboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered thesystem.Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to trulyparticipate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation,non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process ofdecolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth of themselvesas peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society thathas stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience.Today’s truth and reconciliation processes must make space for anIndigenous historical counter-narrative in order to avoid perpetuatinga colonial relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples.A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers allCanadians -- both Indigenous and not -- a new way of approaching thecritical task of healing the wounds left by the residential schoolsystem. Paulette Regan, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada Books>Social and Cultural Studies <

2010, ISBN: 0774817771

[SR: 7020952], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780774817776], University of British Columbia Press, University of British Columbia Press, Book, [PU: University of British Columbia Press], 2010-11-15, U… More...

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