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    Truth and indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools / Ronald Niezen.

    • Title:Truth and indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools / Ronald Niezen.
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    • Author/Creator:Niezen, Ronald, author.
    • Published/Created:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada.
      Truth commissions--Social aspects--Canada.
      Ethnological jurisprudence--Canada.
      Indigenous peoples--Canada--Residential schools.
    • Description:xiv, 173 pages ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Teaching culture.
    • Summary:Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it is unfolding. Using interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission, Niezen raises some very important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different than others around the world? What kinds of narratives are emerging and what do they mean for reconciliation, justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory? And what happens to the ultimate goal of reconciliation when a large part of the testimony--that of nuns, priests, and government officials--is scarcely evident? Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising, Niezen offers an important contribution to our understanding of the TRC process in general, and the Canadian experience in particular.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-165) and index.
    • ISBN:9781442606302 (pbk.)
      1442606304 (pbk.)
      9781442607729 (bound)
      1442607726 (bound)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sense of Injustice
      ch. 2 Unfolding
      ch. 3 Process
      ch. 4 Templates and Exclusions
      ch. 5 Testimony
      ch. 6 Traumatic Memory
      ch. 7 Witnessing History
      ch. 8 Solitudes.
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