Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History

Since the 1980s successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have grappled with the malignant legacy of residential schooling. J.R. Miller explains the institutional responses to that legacy. This unique, timely, and provocative work asks Canadians to accept that the root of the problem was Canadians like them in the past who acquiesced to aggressively assimilative policies.