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Residential schools and reconciliation : Canada confronts its history / J.R. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, J. R. (James Rodger), 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
- Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.
- Off-reservation boarding schools.
- Indigenous peoples--Canada--History.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Truth commissions--Canada.
- Truth commissions.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Canada--Ethnic relations--History.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Residential Schools and Reconciliation is a unique, timely, and provocative work that tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Exposing the Problem
- 1 The Churches Apologize 11
- 2 The State Investigates: The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 41
- 3 The State Responds: Gathering Strength and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation 69
- Part 2 Finding a Solution
- 4 The Bench Adjudicates: Litigation 97
- 5 The Parties Negotiate 125
- 6 Implementing the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement 151
- Part 3 Redress and Reconciliation
- 7 Truth and Reconciliation 185
- 8 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1487502184
- 9781487502188
- OCLC:
- 980736686
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