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Power through testimony : reframing residential schools in the age of reconciliation
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Power through testimony : reframing residential schools in the age of reconciliation
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2017
Book
Contributors
Capitaine, Brieg.; Vanthuyne, Karine.
Description
"Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which includes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the Canadian public. The commission closed and reported in 2015, and this timely volume reveals what was happening on the ground. Drawing on field research during the commission and in local communities, the contributors reveal how survivors are unsettling colonial narratives about residential schools and how churches and former school staff are receiving or resisting the new 'residential school story'."

More Information

ISBN
9780774833899; 0774833890
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne.
Publication Information
Vancouver : UBC Press
Physical Description
xi, 239 pages 23 cm
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