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Reconciliation in practice : a cross-cultural perspective / edited by Ranjan Datta.

Datta, Ranjan, 1977- (Added Author).

Summary:

"In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships reminds us that we are all treaty people -- including immigrants and refugees living in Canada. The contributors to this volume, many of whom are themselves immigrants and refugees, take up the challenge of imagining what it means for immigrants and refugees to live as treaty people. Through essays, personal reflections and poetry, the authors explore what reconciliation is and what it means to live in relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Speaking from their personal experience -- whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization -- contributors share their stories of what reconciliation means in practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food security and creating an intercultural space for social interactions. Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us -- Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee alike."-- From publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773631707 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xi, 187 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Publishing, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part one. Understanding reconciliation -- 1. Possibilities and challenges in reconciliation -- 2. Letter to John A. MacDonald -- 3. Sámi reconciliation in practice: a long and ongoing process -- Reconciliation through decolonization: returning to a First Nations way of life through art and recognition of land -- Part two. Taking responsibility -- 5. Reconciliation as ceremonial responsibility: an immigrant's story -- 6. Reconciliation through transnational literacies: an immigrant woman's transformative learning journey -- 7. Reconciliation and new Canadians -- 8. Integrating Indigenous knowledge in practice and research: a new way forward for the immigrant health professionals -- 9. Reconciliation via building respectful relationships in Indigenous research -- 10. Reconciliation: a White settler learning from the land -- 11. Holes and grey -- Conclusion.
Subject: Colonists > Canada.
Ethnic relations.
Immigrants > Canada.
Indigenous peoples > Canada.
Race relations.
Reconciliation.
Social justice > Canada.
Colonization > Social aspects > Canada.
Decolonization > Social aspects > Canada.
Canada > Ethnic relations.
Canada > Race relations.

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