Unsettling The Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada 2012 professor emeritus in the Department

professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta

and Haijo Westra

and students

The author firmly believes in the healing power of Aboriginal literature including autobiography

Catching Dreams

Unsettling The Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada 2012 professor emeritus in the DepartmentUnsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada examines the recent development in Residential Schools Apology and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 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