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Unsettling the Settler Within

Unsettling the Settler Within

Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

by Paulette Regan

Foreword by Taiaiake Alfred

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

Digital download
9780774859646
Published: December 2010

Digital download
9780774817790
Published: January 2011

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A compassionate and powerful book that will appeal to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal policymakers, politicians, educators, students, and any Canadian with an interest in building a future that both acknowledges and learns from the failures of the past.

Foreword by Taiaiake Alfred

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Settler’s Call to Action

1 An Unsettling Pedagogy of History and Hope

2 Rethinking Reconciliation: Truth Telling, Restorying History, Commemoration

3 Deconstructing Canada’s Peacemaker Myth

4 The Alternative Dispute Resolution Program: Reconciliation as Regifting

5 Indigenous Diplomats: Counter-Narratives of Peacemaking

6 The Power of Apology and Testimony: Settlers as Ethical Witnesses

7 An Apology Feast in Hazelton: A Settler’s “Unsettling”
Experience

8 Peace Warriors and Settler Allies

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Paulette Regan is the director of research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. She holds a PhD from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria.

Seeking to navigate the complex terrain of reconciliation in Canada, Regan’s text is an important contribution to settler studies in Canada … Her ability to fuse literatures from the burgeoning field of settler studies and anticolonial scholarship is impressive. ~Robyn Green, Carleton University, Great Plains Research, Vol. 22 No. 2, Fall 2012

Regan weaves together her own profoundly personal experiences in Indigenous communities with wider historical study and narrative analysis … most compelling. ~Adam J. Barker, University of Leicester, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012

Canada Prize in Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2012) - Short-listed