Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
ISBN-10
0774859644
ISBN-13
9780774859646
Category
Social Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2010-12-22
Publisher
UBC Press
Author
Paulette Regan

Description

In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. Settlers must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers a new and hopeful path toward healing the wounds of the past.

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