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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : MacDonald, David Bruce
Titre(s) : The sleeping giant awakens [Texte imprimé] : genocide, Indian residential schools, and the challenge of conciliation / David B. MacDonald
Publication : Toronto (Ont.) ; Buffalo (N.Y.) : University of Toronto press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-240 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : UTP insights
Lien à la collection : UTP insights
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-234) and index
"Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian Residential School system has been likened
to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical
tool to better understand Canada's past and present relationships between settlers
and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined in domestic
and international law, the book applies the concept to the forced transfer of Indigenous
children to residential schools and the "Sixties Scoop," in which Indigenous children
were taken from their communities and placed in foster homes or adopted. Based on
archival research and extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, officials
at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and others, The Sleeping Giant
Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after
genocide, exploring how moving forward together is difficult in a context where many
settlers know little of the residential schools and the ongoing legacies of colonization,
and need to have a better conception of Indigenous rights. It offers a detailed analysis
of how the TRC approached genocide in its deliberations and in the Final Report. Crucially,
MacDonald engages critics who argue that the term genocide impedes understanding of
the IRS system and imperils prospects for conciliation. By contrast, this book sees
genocide recognition as an important basis for meaningful discussions of how to engage
Indigenous-settler relations in respectful and proactive ways"
Sujet(s) : Génocide -- Canada -- Histoire
Indiens d'Amérique -- Canada -- Crimes contre -- Histoire
Enfants indiens d'Amérique -- Éducation -- Canada -- Histoire
Internats -- Canada -- Histoire
Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.897 071 (23e éd.) = Sociologie des peuples autochtones de l'Amérique du Nord - Canada
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781487522698 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46844422w
Notice n° :
FRBNF46844422
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction:. Sleeping giant awakens -- ; Understanding genocide: Raphael Lemkin,
the UN Genocide convention, and International law -- ; Pluralists, Indigenous peoples,
and colonial genocide -- ; Forcible transfer as genocide in the Indian Residential
schools -- ; Sixties and Seventies scoop and the genocide convention -- The Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the question of genocide -- ; TRC and
Indigenous deaths, inside and outside the Residential schools -- ; Genocide and the
politics of memory: discussing some counterarguments -- ; Indigenous peoples and genocide:
challenges of recognition and remembering -- ; Conciliation and Moves to Responsibility
