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Residential schools and reconciliation : Canada confronts its history  Cover Image Book Book

Residential schools and reconciliation : Canada confronts its history / J. R. Miller.

Summary:

"Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including 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." -- Provided by the Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781487502188
  • Physical Description: xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Residential schools.
Native peoples > Canada > History.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > History.
Truth commissions > Canada.
Canada > Ethnic relations > History.
Topic Heading: Aboriginal.

Available copies

  • 16 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.

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