The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation
La description
Confronting the truths of Canada’s Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada’s past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Based on archival research, extensive interviews with residential school survivors, and officials at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, among others, The Sleeping Giant Awakens offers a unique and timely perspective on the prospects for conciliation after genocide.
Récompenses
- Short-listed, Best Subsequent Book of 2019 in Native American and Indigenous Studies 2020
- Short-listed, Shortlisted for the 2020 Donald Smiley Prize 2020
Reviews
“In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians. ”
- Jane Griffith
"MacDonald’s argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms. "
- Sarah Maddison