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Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian
state, It’s All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and
shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned KahnawĂ :ke
Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the
Canadian government’s reconciliation agenda is a new form of
colonization that is also guaranteed to fail. Bringing together
Alfred’s speeches and interviews from over the past two decades,
the book shows that Indigenous peoples across the world face a
stark choice: reconnect with their authentic cultures and values or
continue following a slow road to annihilation. Alfred proposes a
radical vision for contesting and confronting the ongoing genocide
of the original peoples of this land: Indigenous Resurgence. This
way of thinking, being, and practising represents an authentic
politics that roots resistance in the spirit, knowledge, and laws
of the ancestors. Set against the historic arc of
Indigenous-settler relations in Canada and drawing on the rich
heritage of First Nations resistance movements, It’s All about
the Land traces the evolution of Indigenous struggle and liberation
through the dynamic processes of oratory, dialogue, action, and
reflection.
In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the
notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth
and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts
between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered
the system. In Unsettling the Settler Within, Paulette Regan, a
former residential-schools-claims manager, argues that in order to
truly participate in the transformative possibilities of
reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own
process of decolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth
of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy
of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous
experience. With former students offering their stories as part of
the truth and reconciliation processes, Regan advocates for an
ethos that learns from the past, making space for an Indigenous
historical counter-narrative to avoid perpetuating a colonial
relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples. A powerful and
compassionate call to action, Unsettling the Settler Within
inspires with its thoughtful and personal account of Regan's own
journey, and offers all Canadians -- Indigenous and non-Indigenous
policymakers, politicians, teachers, and students -- a new way of
approaching the critical task of healing the wounds left by the
residential school system.
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