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David B. Macdonald

The Sleeping Giant Awakens

Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation

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Confronting the truths of Canada’s 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 Canada’s 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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4875-2269-8
  • EAN: 9781487522698
  • Produktnummer: 27172822
  • Verlag: University of Toronto Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H15.2 cm x B22.7 cm x D2.0 cm 384 g
  • Gewicht: 384

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