ISBN

9781897285749

Statement of Responsibility

edited for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation by Gregory Younging, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné.

Publication Information

Ottawa Ont. : Aboriginal Healing Foundation

Physical Description

1 online resource (455 pages)

Notes

Also issued in English under the title: Response, Responsibility and Renewal: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Journey.
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series. 
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print format. 

Contents

Sect. 1 : History in our midst -- On the side of the angels / Jose Kusugak -- Reconciliation: The only way forward to fair and enduring coexistence / Rene Dussault -- née Eustace: The little girl who would be chief / Sophie Pierre -- The Labrador Inuit experience with Canadian governance / James Igloliorte -- Both sides now: Designing white men and the other side of history /Susan Crean -- Truth about residential schools and reconciling this history: A Michif view / Rita Flamand -- For everything there is a season / Ian MacKenzie -- Cry me a river, white boy / Drew Hayden Taylor -- When the Prime Minister said sorry / Mick Dodson -- Sect. 2 : Reconciliation, restitution, rhetoric -- Inuit artistic expression as cultural resilience -- Returning to harmony /Richard Wagamese -- Dispelling ignorance of residential schools / Peter Harrison -- Reconciliation: For First Nations this must include fiscal fairness / Scott Serson -- Apology and reconciliation: A timeline of events -- Restitution is the real pathway to justice for indigenous peoples / Taiaiake Alfred -- You can't un-ring a bell: Demonstrating contrition through action / Waziyatawin -- Beyond sorry: Making the apology genuinely meaningful in Australia? / David Hollinsworth -- Half-truths and whole lies: Rhetoric in the “apology” and the truth and reconciliation commission / Roland Chrisjohn and Tanya Wasacase -- Sect. 3 : Tomorrow's history -- Remembering the children: The Church and Aboriginal leaders tour / Fred Hiltz -- Reconciliation and the revitalization of indigenous languages / Valerie Galley -- The inherited legacy: As a hyphen Canadian / Mari Tanaka -- The role of culturally relevant gender-based analysis in reconciliation / Erin Wolski -- Reconciliation: A “dangerous opportunity” to unsettle ourselves / Natalie A. Chambers -- Reconciliation: Four barriers to paradigm shifting / John Ralston Saul -- Inherited history, international law, and the UN declaration / Gregory Younging -- Conclusion -- About the editorial committee and acknowledgements -- App. 1 / Canada's statement of reconciliation -- App. 2 / Canada's statements of apology -- App. 3 / Church apologies -- App. 4 / Communiqué of the Holy See press office -- App. 5 / Government of Newfoundland apology -- App. 6 / Australia's apology -- App. 7 / United States of America's proposed apology : President Barack Obama's message for First Americans.