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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Sleeping Giant Awakens
  • 1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law
  • 2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide
  • 3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools
  • 4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention
  • 5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide
  • 6. The TRC and Indigenous Deaths, inside and outside the Residential Schools
  • 7. Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Discussing Some Counterarguments
  • 8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering
  • 9. Conciliation and Moves to Responsibility.