Haa-huu-pah: Where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission falls short

Bronwyn C.

A synopsis of “Indigenous Storytelling, Truth-Telling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation,” an article by Jeff Corntassel, Chaw-win-is, and T’lakwadzi. This factsheet provides a critical analysis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and explores community-based approaches to healing, justice and restorying.

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References

Corntassle, J., Chaw-win-is, & T'lakwadzi. (2009). "Indigenous Storytelling, Truth-Telling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation". ESC: English Studies in Canada 35(1): 137- 159. DOI:10.1353/esc.0.0163

Source Authors

Chaw-win-is, Jeff Corntassel, T'lakwadzi

Keywords

Accountability & Responsibility, Agents of Change, Canada's Colonial History, Colonial Violence, community-based solutions, Decolonization, European Settlers, experiential knowledge, Future Possibilities, Haa-huu-pah, Historical Agency, homeland, Indigenous Diplomacy, Indigenous Land Claims, Indigenous Sovereignty, Intention vs Impact, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, land, Land and Power, Language and Power, Language of Rights, Legal History, narrative-of-inclusion, Ongoing Colonialism, oral history, Police Violence, Representations and Power, Residential Schools, restititution, restorying, Settler Colonialism, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Social Justice, State Sanctioned Violence, Truth and Reconciliation, White Supremacy

Locations

Canada, Peake Hall Residential School, Port Alberni

Themes

History