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This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Indigenous Education)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations
The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations. While proponents of these mechanisms have acclaim... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contribu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum
by Ruth B. Phillips • Mary Reid • A. Dirk Moses • Adam Muller • Andrew Woolford • Angela Failler • Christopher Powell • Karen Busby • Jennifer Carter • Clint Curle • Helen Fallding • Jodi Giesbrecht • Amanda Grzyb • George Jacob • Stephen Jaeger • Jorge A. Nállim • Ken Norman • Armando Perla • David Petrasek • Roger I. Simon • Struan Sinclair"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural context... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Flash and Bang: A Short Mystery Fiction Group Anthology
by Tim Wohlforth • Suzanne Berube Rorhus • Andrew MacRae • Barb Goffman • Herschel Cozine • Walter Soethoudt • Bobbi A. Chukran • Su Kopil • Pamela A. De Voe • Laurie Stevens • Sandra Murphy • Julie Tollefson • O'Neil De Noux • John M. Floyd • JoAnne Lucas • Judy Penz Sheluk • Albert Tucher • Earl Staggs • Bv LawsonNineteen authors spin yarns of murder, mayhem, clues, and confessions in this anthology of stories culled from the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Sometimes, crime has the sound of poison dripping or the whistle of a knife through the air. And, sometimes, it happens with a &“flash and bang.&” Col... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015