Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

Paulette Regan

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Country
Canada
Published
25 January 2011
Pages
316
ISBN
9780774817783

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

Paulette Regan

In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada’s notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. Settlers 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. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers a new and hopeful path toward healing the wounds of the past.

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