Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada
Record details
- ISBN: 9780774817783
- ISBN: 077481778x
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Physical Description:
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xi, 299 pages ; 23 cm - Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2010.
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | aIntroduction : a settler's call to action -- An unsettling pedagogy of history and hope -- Rethinking reconciliation : truth telling, restorying history, commemoration -- Deconstructing Canada's peacemaker myth -- The alternative dispute resolution program : reconciliation as regifting -- Indigenous diplomats : counter-narratives of peacemaking -- The power of apology and testimony : settlers as ethical witnesses -- An apology feast in Hazelton : a settler's "unsettling" experience -- Peace warriors and settler allies. |
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Topic Heading: | First Nations Canada. Indigenous. |
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- 2 of 3 copies available at University College of the North Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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The Pas Campus Library | E 96.5 .R44 2010 (Text) | 58500000535302 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Thompson Campus Library | E 96.5 .R44 2010 (Text) | 58500000060780 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada’s notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. Settlers must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers a new and hopeful path toward healing the wounds of the past. --