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The sleeping giant awakens : genocide, Indian residential schools, and the challenge of conciliation /

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada's past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MacDonald, David Bruce (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Baffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:	UTP insights.
Subjects:	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Genocide > Sociological aspects. Truth commissions > Canada. Canada > Ethnic relations > History. Canada > Race relations > History.

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