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Book SynopsisNaomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Canada established in 2008 to review the history of the Indian Residential School system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children.
Table of ContentsPreface. Tracing Memory in Naomi Angel’s Archive / Jamie Berthe and Eugenia Kisin ix
Acknowledgments / Marita Sturken and Faye Ginsburg xix
Introduction. Reconciliation and Remembrance 1
1. Reconciliation as a Way of Seeing: The History and Context of the Indian Residential School System 19
2. Images of Contact: Archival Photographs and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada 54
3. Nations Gather: Public Testimony and the Politics of Affect 90
4. Reconciliation as a Ghostly Encounter: Discourses of Haunting and Indian Residential Schools 125
Conclusion. Fragments of Truth: Concluding Gestures 160
Notes 167
Bibliography 189
Index 207
