Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation - the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country's history.
This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies.
| ISBN: | 9781487502188 |
| Publication date: | 27th September 2017 |
| Author: | J R Miller |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
Indigenous peoples Social and cultural history History of education History of the Americas |
Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R.
Residential Schools and Reconciliation features in the following genres: Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural history, History of education, History of the Americas
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Residential Schools and Reconciliation was written by J R Miller and published by University of Toronto Press
Residential Schools and Reconciliation has 368 pages