A National Crime - The Canadian Government and the Residential School System (Paperback)

With the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more Canadians than ever are aware of the ugly history of Canada's residential schools. Nearly twenty years earlier, UMP published John Milloy's A National Crime, a groundbreaking history of the schools that exposed details of the system to thousands of readers. Using previously unreleased government documents accessed during his work for the Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples, A National Crime was one of the first comprehensive studies of the history of residential schools, and it remains a powerful indictment of the racist and colonial policies that inspired and sustained them.A National Crime convincingly argues that rather than bringing Indigenous childern into what its planners called ""the circle of civiziliation"" the schools more often provided an inferior eduction in an atmosphere of neglect, disease and abuse. As UMP marks its fifth decade, and Canada struggles towards truth and reconciliation, it is fitting to reissue A National Crime -one of our most influential publications and a cornerstone of our Indigenous studies list-with a new foreword by a scholar in the vanguard of Indigenous historians in Canada. Mary Jane Logan McCallum's foreword sets the story of A National Crime in the context of Indigenous historiography and her own family history, from the broad level of national Indian policy to its impacton individual lives lived.

General

Imprint:	University of Manitoba Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Critical Studies in Native History
Release date:	March 2017
Authors:	John S Milloy
Foreword by:	Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	440
ISBN-13:	978-0-88755-789-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-88755-789-9
Barcode:	9780887557897

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