In This Together

Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-927366-44-8 (ISBN)

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The release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) findings and recommendations in the spring of 2015 was an immensely important day for the people of Canada. It marked the hopeful beginning of change-a change of thinking, a change of opinion, a change in understanding. But how do we begin? Chief Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the TRC, says that the most common statement the commission heard from the public was: "I didn't know any of this, and I acknowledge that things are not where they should be, and that we can do better. But what can we do? What should we do?" This collection of fifteen true stories of real reconciliation by both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Canadians is in response to that question. Written by journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, a city planner, and a lawyer, each of these writers expound on their 'light bulb moments' regarding Canada's colonial past and present. They look at their own experiences and assumptions about race and racial divides in Canada under a microscope in hopes that the rest of the population will do the same.
With an afterword that is essentially a candid conversation by renowned CBC radio host Shelagh Rogers and Chief Justice Sinclair about their time working with the TRC, this collection is one of the many ways to begin the work of reconciliation in Canada. Metcalfe-Chenail hopes that these voices will inspire other Canadians who want an open dialogue and to maintain the conversation long after the buzz of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report has faded.

Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail is Edmonton's Historian Laureate, author of Polar Winds and For the Love of Flying, and a columnist for CBC Radio Active.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.04.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Calgary
Sprache	englisch
Maße	146 x 215 mm
Gewicht	311 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-927366-44-5 / 1927366445
ISBN-13	978-1-927366-44-8 / 9781927366448
Zustand	Neuware