ABSTRACT

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.  

An increasing number of researchers, educators, and social and environmental activists are eager to find ways to effectively support ongoing attempts to recognize, integrate and promote Indigenous perspectives and communities. Taking Canada as its focus, this book offers a multidisciplinary consideration of a range of reconciliation policies, practices and initiatives that are relevant in all settler states. Set against its increasing neoliberal appropriation, the book resituates reconciliation in the everyday contexts of community interaction and engagement, as well as in the important areas of Indigenous knowledge, resource management and social and environmental justice. Reconciliation is not just the responsibility of law and government. And, attuned to the different perspectives of settlers, migrants and refugee communities, the book examines areas of opportunity, as well as obstacles to progress, in the forging of a truly decolonizing framework for reconciliation. 

As the challenges of reconciliation cross numerous academic and substantial areas, this book will appeal to a range of scholars and practitioners working in law, politics, education, environmental studies, anthropology and Indigenous studies.

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

part I|44 pages

Meanings of reconciliation

chapter 3|2 pages

Turtle Island to Babylon

chapter 5|10 pages

Language and reconciliation

An Indigenous woman’s perspective

chapter 6|2 pages

The trapline

A pathway of Indigenous land-based reconciliation

part II|112 pages

Responsibilities for land and reconciliation

chapter 7|17 pages

Reconciliation through kits and tests?

Reconsidering newcomer responsibilities on Indigenous land

chapter 9|12 pages

Reconciliation as rationalization of state violence

Activist performance as resistance to TRC politics in Chile and Canada

chapter 10|13 pages

Embracing reconciliation in the face of adversity

An intersectional perspective on land, immigration, and anti-racist learning

chapter 11|16 pages

Indigenous and newcomer women in journeys of reconciliation

Building relationships and learning from one another

chapter 12|12 pages

Building bridges among Indigenous and immigrant communities

A visible minority immigrant woman’s journey

part III|6 pages

How to move forward

chapter 15|4 pages

Conclusion

Reconciliation as taking responsibilities