Publication

2014

This paper examines the work of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by the country to collect testimonies to record the human rights abuses against Aboriginal children that took place in its residential schools. The author states that while these schools were purportedly established to educate Aboriginal children, they were actually part of a system of assimilation and cultural extermination. The author also examines the continuing challenges to reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians as well as the differences between the Canadian TRC and others around the world.

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Author Elizabeth Shelley
Series swisspeace Working Papers
Issue 6
Publisher swisspeace
Copyright © 2014 swisspeace
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