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What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were
not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of
reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation
explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous
nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps
and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.
The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous
communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where
appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow
interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to
take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and
heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating
to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to
(re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer
critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do
not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which
liberation is sought. Illuminating the interconnectivity between
and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls
on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous
resurgence in an age of reconciliation.
Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to
Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit,
professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and
universities, clubs and individuals have asked: "How can I/we
participate in reconciliation?" Recognizing that reconciliation is
not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying
in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and
solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue,
and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers
find their way forward. The essays in Pathways of Reconciliation
address the themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching,
and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation
(within a variety of reconciliation frameworks, either explicit or
implicit) and illustrate the complexities of the reconciliation
process itself. They canvass multiple and varied pathways of
reconciliation, from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives,
reflecting a diversity of approaches to the mandate given to all
Canadians by the TRC with its Calls to Action. Together the authors
- academics, practitioners, students and ordinary citizens -
demonstrate the importance of trying and learning from new and
creative approaches to thinking about and practicing reconciliation
and reflect on what they have learned from their attempts (both
successful and less successful) in the process.
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as
COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every
continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social
interactions, government functioning and relations between
countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to
hold in one's mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort
such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This
book confronts the vulnerabilities and interconnectedness made
visible by the pandemic and its consequences, along with the legal,
ethical and policy responses. These include vulnerabilities for
people who have been harmed or will be harmed by the virus directly
and those harmed by measures taken to slow its relentless march;
vulnerabilities exposed in our institutions, governance and legal
structures; and vulnerabilities in other countries and at the
global level where persistent injustices harm us all. Hopefully,
COVID-19 will forces us to deeply reflect on how we govern and our
policy priorities; to focus preparedness, precaution, and recovery
to include all, not just some. Published in English with some
chapters in French.
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as
COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every
continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social
interactions, government functioning and relations between
countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to
hold in one's mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort
such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This
book confronts the vulnerabilities and interconnectedness made
visible by the pandemic and its consequences, along with the legal,
ethical and policy responses. These include vulnerabilities for
people who have been harmed or will be harmed by the virus directly
and those harmed by measures taken to slow its relentless march;
vulnerabilities exposed in our institutions, governance and legal
structures; and vulnerabilities in other countries and at the
global level where persistent injustices harm us all. Hopefully,
COVID-19 will forces us to deeply reflect on how we govern and our
policy priorities; to focus preparedness, precaution, and recovery
to include all, not just some. Published in English with some
chapters in French.
It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local
Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police
officer."" So began the school experience of many Indigenous
children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the
history of residential schools prepared by the Truth &
Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015,
the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and
communities to share their experiences of residential schools and
released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five
million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well
as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door,
published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for
Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several
reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and
legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package
that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the
journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked
upon.Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First
Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword
introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre
for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings,
and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimee Craft writes in the
Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling
and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the
past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of
Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the
Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for
Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and
reconciliation.
Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to
Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit,
professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and
universities, clubs and individuals have asked: 'How can I/we
participate in reconciliation?' Recognizing that reconciliation is
not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying
in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and
solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue,
and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers
find their way forward. The essays in Pathways of Reconciliation
address the themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching,
and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation
(within a variety of reconciliation frameworks, either explicit or
implicit) and illustrate the complexities of the reconciliation
process itself. They canvass multiple and varied pathways of
reconciliation, from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives,
reflecting a diversity of approaches to the mandate given to all
Canadians by the TRC with its Calls to Action. Together the authors
- academics, practitioners, students and ordinary citizens -
demonstrate the importance of trying and learning from new and
creative approaches to thinking about and practicing reconciliation
and reflect on what they have learned from their attempts (both
successful and less successful) in the process.
Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric
development has dramatically altered the social, political, and
physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been
cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which
the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from
Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty
rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's
Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network
of 15 dams and 13,800 km of transmission lines.In Our Backyard
tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on
the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples,
academics, scientists, and regulators. It builds on the rich
environmental and economic evaluations documented in the Clean
Environment Commission's public hearings on Keeyask in 2012. It
amplifies Indigenous voices that environmental assessment and
regulatory processes have often failed to incorporate and provides
a basis for ongoing decision-making and scholarship relating to
Keeyask and resource development more generally. It considers
cumulative, regional, and strategic impact assessments; Indigenous
worldviews and laws within the regulatory and decision-making
process; the economics of development; models for monitoring and
management; consideration of affected species; and cultural and
social impacts. With a provincial and federal regulatory regime
that is struggling with important questions around the balance
between development and sustainability, and in light of the
inherent rights of Indigenous people to land, livelihoods, and
self-determination, In Our Backyard offers critical reflections
that highlight the need for purposeful dialogue, principled
decision making, and a better legacy of northern development in the
future.
Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric
development has dramatically altered the social, political, and
physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been
cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which
the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from
Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty
rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's
Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network
of 15 dams and 13,800 km of transmission lines.In Our Backyard
tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on
the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples,
academics, scientists, and regulators. It builds on the rich
environmental and economic evaluations documented in the Clean
Environment Commission's public hearings on Keeyask in 2012. It
amplifies Indigenous voices that environmental assessment and
regulatory processes have often failed to incorporate and provides
a basis for ongoing decision-making and scholarship relating to
Keeyask and resource development more generally. It considers
cumulative, regional, and strategic impact assessments; Indigenous
worldviews and laws within the regulatory and decision-making
process; the economics of development; models for monitoring and
management; consideration of affected species; and cultural and
social impacts. With a provincial and federal regulatory regime
that is struggling with important questions around the balance
between development and sustainability, and in light of the
inherent rights of Indigenous people to land, livelihoods, and
self-determination, In Our Backyard offers critical reflections
that highlight the need for purposeful dialogue, principled
decision making, and a better legacy of northern development in the
future.
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