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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacDonald, David B. (Autor, Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:UTP Insights
Temas:
DISCOUNT-C.
HISTORY / Native American.
Canadian history.
Genocide Studies.
Indian Residential Schools.
Indigenous Studies.
Sixties Scoop.
TRC.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
conciliation.
human rights.
international law.
reconciliation.
settler colonialism.
transitional justice.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Sleeping Giant Awakens
  • Chapter 1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law
  • Chapter 2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide
  • Chapter 3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools
  • Chapter 4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention
  • Chapter 5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide
  • Chapter 6. The TRC and Indigenous Deaths, inside and outside the Residential Schools
  • Chapter 7. Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Discussing Some Counterarguments
  • Chapter 8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering
  • Chapter 9. Conciliation and Moves to Responsibility
  • Notes
  • Index

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