This course uses relationship-building methodologies to develop skills to examine and explore the concept and processes, practice and promises of reconciliation. Through class discussion/seminars, guest speakers, and comparative readings in: Canadian and Indigenous colonial history; the findings of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Decisions; and Indigenous solidarity movements in Canada. Students will examine reconciliation and determine whether it is a different process than 'decolonization'.
This course uses relationship-building methodologies to develop skills to examine and explore the concept and processes, practice and promises of reconciliation. Through class discussion/seminars, guest speakers, and comparative readings in: Canadian and Indigenous colonial history; the findings of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Decisions; and Indigenous solidarity movements in Canada. Students will examine reconciliation and determine whether it is a different process than 'decolonization'.
