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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Toronto ; Baffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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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.