Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History

by J.R. Miller

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Published: May 2022

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 368 Pages

Illustrations: 20 b&w illustrations

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

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ISBN: 9781487521844

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Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling through official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

In Residential Schools and Reconciliation, award-winning author J.R. Miller tackles and explains these institutional responses to Canada’s residential school legacy. Analysing archival material and interviews with former students, politicians, bureaucrats, church officials, and the Chief Commissioner of the TRC, Miller reveals a major obstacle to achieving reconciliation – the inability of Canadians at large to overcome their flawed, overly positive understanding of their country’s history. This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies.

J.R. Miller is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of numerous works on issues related to Indigenous peoples including Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens and Shingwauk’s Vision, both published by University of Toronto Press.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology

Introduction: "We Did Not Hear You"

Part One: Exposing the Problem

1. The Churches Apologize
2. The State Investigates: The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
3. The State Responds: Gathering Strength and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation

Part Two: Finding a Solution

4. The Bench Adjudicates: Litigation
5. The Parties Negotiate
6. Implementing the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement

Part Three: Redress and Reconciliation

7. Truth and Reconciliation
8. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

"Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History explains how, in a quarter of a century, the Indigenous peoples’ version of the history of Indian Residential Schools has left the margins and moved to the centre of our understanding of Canadian history."
Donald B. Smith, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Calgary

"J.R. Miller conceives of reconciliation as an ongoing consideration of how we relate to one another when we share our interpretations of Canadian history. Residential Schools and Reconciliation’s contribution is substantial in that it challenges all Canadians to think about what reconciliation can be."
Jonathan Anuik, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

"J.R. Miller has done it again: a cogent, fair-minded analysis of a significant moment in Canada's hesitant and bumpy journey to truth and reconciliation. Few scholars have done more to enlighten us about this critical relationship."
Bob Rae, Distinguished Professor at the Victoria University and the University of Toronto School of Governance and Public Policy