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Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada  Cover Image Book Book

Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada

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. --

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  • ISBN: 9780774817783
  • ISBN: 077481778x
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xi, 299 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 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.
Subject: Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- History
Indians of North America -- Education -- Canada -- History
Indians, Treatment of -- Canada -- History
Reconciliation -- Canada
Truth commissions -- Canada
Canada -- Race relations
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
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. --
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