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Book SynopsisUnsettling the Settler Within is a powerful call to action that lays bare the myth of the peacemaking settler and points the way toward a meaningful reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians grappling with the legacy of the Indian residential school system.
Trade ReviewSeeking to navigate the complex terrain of reconciliation in Canada, Regan’s text is an important contribution to settler studies in Canada … Her ability to fuse literatures from the burgeoning field of settler studies and anticolonial scholarship is impressive. -- Robyn Green, Carleton University * Great Plains Research, Vol. 22 No. 2, Fall 2012 *
Regan weaves together her own profoundly personal experiences in Indigenous communities with wider historical study and narrative analysis … most compelling. -- Adam J. Barker, University of Leicester * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *
Table of ContentsForeword by Taiaiake Alfred
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Settler’s Call to Action
1 An Unsettling Pedagogy of History and Hope
2 Rethinking Reconciliation: Truth Telling, Restorying History, Commemoration
3 Deconstructing Canada’s Peacemaker Myth
4 The Alternative Dispute Resolution Program: Reconciliation as Regifting
5 Indigenous Diplomats: Counter-Narratives of Peacemaking
6 The Power of Apology and Testimony: Settlers as Ethical Witnesses
7 An Apology Feast in Hazelton: A Settler’s “Unsettling”
Experience
8 Peace Warriors and Settler Allies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
