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Unsettling the Settler Within

Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

About this book

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system.

Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization. They 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. Today’s truth and reconciliation processes must make space for an Indigenous historical counter-narrative in order to avoid perpetuating a colonial relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples.

A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers all Canadians – both Indigenous and not – a new way of approaching the critical task of healing the wounds left by the residential school system.

Author / Editor information

Paulette Regan is the director of research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. She holds a PhD from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria.

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Regan weaves together her own profoundly personal experiences in Indigenous communities with wider historical study and narrative analysis … most compelling. --- Seeking to navigate the complex terrain of reconciliation in Canada, Regan’s text is an important contribution to settler studies in Canada … Her ability to fuse literatures from the burgeoning field of settler studies and anticolonial scholarship is impressive.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

    ix
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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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    An Unsettling Pedagogy of History and Hope

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    Rethinking Reconciliation

    54
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    Deconstructing Canada’s Peacemaker Myth

    83
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    The Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

    111
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    Indigenous Diplomats

    143
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    The Power of Apology and Testimony

    171
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    An Apology Feast in Hazelton

    193
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    Peace Warriors and Settler Allies

    213
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    Notes

    238
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    Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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9780774817790
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