Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 3
5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Action
6. On the Making of a National Tragedy: The Transformation of the Meaning of the Indian Residential Schools 29
7. Telling a Story and Performing the Truth: The Indian Residential School as Cultural Trauma 50
8. Loving to Reconcile: Love as a Political Emotion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 74
9. Learning through Conversation: An Inquiry into Shame 95
10. Conflicting Memories and Paths of Action
11. Surviving as Mi’kmaq and First Nations People: The Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia 113
12. “National Memory” and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling 135
13. Remembering Residential Schools, Accounting for Decolonization through Development: Conflicting Viewpoints 155
14. (Un)reckoning with Historical Abuses
15. The New Victims: Perpetrators before the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission 177
16. Residential Schools in Canada: Why the Message Is Not Getting Across 198
17. Epilogue 220
18. Acknowledgments 224
19. Contributors 225
20. Index 229