Chapter 5 “Aboriginal Principles of Witnessing” and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation: Art, Curation, and Healing 21
6. Intergenerational Sense, Intergenerational Responsibility 43
7. this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land 67
8. Witnessing In Camera: Photographic Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation 93
9. “Aboriginal Principles of Witnessing” and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 135
10. Polishing the Chain: Haudenosaunee Peacebuilding and Nation-Specific Frameworks of Redress 157
11. Acts of Defiance in Indigenous Theatre: A Conversation with Lisa C. Ravensbergen 181
12. “pain, pleasure, shame. Shame”: Masculine Embodiment, Kinship, and Indigenous Reterritorialization 193
13. “Our Roots Go Much Deeper”: A Conversation with Armand Garnet Ruffo 215
14. “This Is the Beginning of a Major Healing Movement”: A Conversation with Georgina Lightning 227
15. Resisting Containment: The Long Reach of Song at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools 239
16. Song, Participation, and Intimacy at Truth and Reconciliation Gatherings 267
17. Gesture of Reconciliation: The TRC Medicine Box as Communicative Thing 283
18. Imagining New Platforms for Public Engagement: A Conversation with Bracken Hanuse Corlett 305
19. Bibliography 321
20. Discography 342
21. About the Contributors 343
22. Copyright Acknowledgements 349
23. Index 351
24. Books in the Indigenous Studies Series 376