Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774833890 ISBN 13: 9780774833899

Publisher: UBC Press, 2017

Synopsis

Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which includes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the Canadian public. The commission closed and reported in 2015, and this timely volume reveals what was happening on the ground. Drawing on field research during the commission and in local communities, the contributors reveal how survivors are unsettling colonial narratives about residential schools and how churches and former school staff are receiving or resisting the new "residential school story."

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About the Author

Brieg Capitaine is professor of sociology at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Karine Vanthuyne is associate professor of anthropology at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Contributors: Janice Cindy Gaudet, Cheryl Gaver, Robyn Green, Jula Hughes, Lawrence Martin/Wapistan, Charles R. Menzies, Arie Molena, Ronald Niezen, Simone Poliandri, and Eric Taylor Woods

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774833890
• ISBN 13: 9780774833899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Capitaine Brieg, Vanthuyne Karine