1st Edition

Canada and Colonial Genocide

Edited By Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto Copyright 2017
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Settler colonialism in Canada has traditionally been portrayed as a gentler, if not benevolent, colonialism—especially in contrast to the Indian Wars in the United States. This national mythology has penetrated into comparative genocide studies, where Canadian case studies are rarely discussed in edited volumes, genocide journals, or multi-national studies. Indeed, much of the extant literature... Read more

1. Canada and colonial genocide
Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto

2. Fearing social and cultural death: genocide and elimination in settler colonial Canada—an Indigenous perspective
Matthew Wildcat

3. Canada’s history wars: indigenous genocide and public memory in the United States, Australia and Canada
David B. MacDonald

4. Settler colonialism in Canada and the Métis
Tricia Logan

5. Not told by victims: genocide-as-story in Aboriginal prison writings in Canada, 1980–96
Seth Adema

6. The economics of reconciliation: tracing investment in Indigenous–settler relations
Robyn Green

Biography

Andrew Woolford is professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba and president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is author of This Benevolent Experiment Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States and Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia.

Jeff Benvenuto is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, completing a dissertation on cultural genocide and Indigenous rights discourse.