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After One Hundred Winters - In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Hardcover)
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After One Hundred Winters - In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Hardcover)
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A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice
to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh
truth that the United States was founded on the violent
dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation
might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and
urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of
the individuals and communities who are working together to heal
historical wounds-and reveals how much we have to gain by learning
from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the brutal
legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people that has
endured since the nation's founding. Explaining how early attempts
at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal nations of their
land and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools, she
shows that true reconciliation must emerge through Indigenous
leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific places and
histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are creating a
movement for transformative reconciliation that puts Indigenous
land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With
historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges us to
face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to
redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One
Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in
America today, despite their troubled history, are finding
unexpected gifts in reconciliation.
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