The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challe

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Sleeping Giant Awakens by David B. MacDonald The Sleeping Giant Awakens considers how residential school Survivors and other Indigenous peoples, settlers, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada approached the question of genocide in the Indian Residential Schools system. It assesses prospects for conciliation in the aftermath of genocide. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Confronting the truths of Canadas Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canadas 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, extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, and officials at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, among others, The Sleeping Giant Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after genocide, exploring the difficulties in moving forward in a context where many settlers know little of the residential schools and ongoing legacies of colonization and need to have a better conception of Indigenous rights. It provides a detailed analysis of how the TRC approached genocide in its deliberations and in its 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. Author Biography David B. MacDonald is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph and Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences Table of Contents Introduction 1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide Review "In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians." -- Jane Griffith * Ontario History *"MacDonalds argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms." -- Sarah Maddison * The British Journal * Long Description Confronting the truths of Canadas Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens , David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canadas 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, extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, and officials at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, among others, The Sleeping Giant Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after genocide, exploring the difficulties in moving forward in a context where many settlers know little of the residential schools and ongoing legacies of colonization and need to have a better conception of Indigenous rights. It provides a detailed analysis of how the TRC approached genocide in its deliberations and in its 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. Review Quote "In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians." Details ISBN148752269X Year 2019 ISBN-10 148752269X ISBN-13 9781487522698 Pages 256 Publication Date 2019-05-31 UK Release Date 2019-05-31 Format Paperback Imprint University of Toronto Press Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada Subtitle Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation Author David B. MacDonald Publisher University of Toronto Press Series UTP Insights DEWEY 305.897/071 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2019-05-30 Alternative 9781487503499 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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