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

by Paulette Regan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077481778X
• ISBN13: 9780774817783
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"