Residential Schools and Reconciliation

Canada Confronts its History

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Pub Date 07 Nov 2017 | Archive Date 17 Oct 2017

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Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award winning author J. R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation – the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country’s history. This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies.

 

J.R. Miller is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan.  He is the author of numerous works on issues related to Indigenous peoples including Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens and Shingwauk’s Vision, both published by University of Toronto Press.

Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling...


Advance Praise

Canada Confronts its History: Residential Schools and Reconciliation explains how, in a quarter of a century, the Indigenous peoples’ version of the history of Indian Residential Schools has left the margins for the centre of our understanding of Canadian history.”

 Donald B. Smith, Department of History, University of Calgary


“J.R. Miller conceives of reconciliation as an ongoing consideration of how we relate to one another when we share our interpretations of Canadian history. Canada Confronts its History: Residential Schools and Reconciliation’s contribution is substantial in that it challenges all Canadians to think about what reconciliation can be.”

 Jonathan Anuik, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta


Canada Confronts its History: Residential Schools and Reconciliation explains how, in a quarter of a century, the Indigenous peoples’ version of the history of Indian Residential Schools has...


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