Residential schools and reconciliation : Canada confronts its history
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487502188
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Physical Description:
xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
regular print
print - Publisher: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Topic Heading: | Aboriginal. |
Available copies
- 16 of 17 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | 970.54 MIL (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100028755 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Miller (
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly Annex.Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens ) constructs a solid, objective history of Canada's ongoing efforts to atone for its Indian Residential School system, which was labeled an act of cultural genocide in 2015 by the government-appointed Truth and Reconciliation Commission. His critical exploration shines a light on decades of church and government negotiation to address a century's worth of harm caused when white settlers separated 150,000 indigenous children from their families for forced assimilation. Miller gives life to the often dry and mind-numbing elements of bureaucratic history, providing views of unsavory backroom calculations in which compensation for horrific abuses was crunched into a formulaic points systems based on the types of mistreatment suffered. Miller ably documents groundbreaking royal commissions, caustic litigation, trauma-triggering mediation processes, and a commission that traveled across Canada gathering witness testimony and producing landmark recommendations, compressing complex history into a smoothly flowing narrative. Despite being marked by the repetition that tends to weigh down such academic titles, this book is equally useful to researchers and general readers. As colonial nations around the world seek pathways to post-conflict reconciliation, Miller's timely work is an important reminder of both the potential obstacles and the healing possibilities of such initiatives.(Nov.)