Description
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe through memory, story, and testimony how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation.
Trade ReviewPower Through Testimony provides a rich and nuanced exploration of the complex dynamics of ‘reconciliation’ that is indeed valuable in understanding the legacy of residential schools as it continues to unfold. -- Tricie Lea-Scott, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai * British Journal of Canadian Studies *
The contributors to Power through Testimony provide an important commentary on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the limitations of its mandate.
-- Jon Reyhner, Department of Educational Specialties, Northern Arizona University * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *
Table of ContentsForeword / Ronald Niezen
Introduction / Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne
Part 1: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Action
1 On the Making of a National Tragedy: The Transformation of the Meaning of the Indian Residential Schools / Eric Taylor Woods
2 Telling a Story and Performing the Truth: The Indian Residential School as Cultural Trauma / Brieg Capitaine
3 Loving to Reconcile: Love as a Political Emotion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Robyn Green
4 Learning through Conversation: An Inquiry into Shame / Janice Cindy Gaudet and Lawrence Martin/Wapistan
Part 2: Conflicting Memories and Paths of Action
5 Surviving as Mi’kmaq and First Nations People: The Legacies of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia / Simone Poliandri
6 “National Memory” and Its Remainders: Labrador Inuit Counterhistories of Residential Schooling / Arie Molena
7 Remembering Residential Schools, Accounting for Decolonization through Development: Conflicting Viewpoints / Karine Vanthuyne
Part 3: (Un)reckoning with Historical Abuses
8 The New Victims: Perpetrators before the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Jula Hughes
9 Residential Schools in Canada: Why the Message Is Not Getting Across / Cheryl Gaver
Epilogue / Charles R. Menzies
Index
