Changing the Subject: The TRC, Its National Events, and the Displacement of Substantive Reconciliation in Canadian Media Representations.
The fi ndings and recommendations of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC, 2008-2015) off er Canadians and their public institutions an opportunity to better confront the ongoing injustice of their colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, but this task requir...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 362 - 398 |
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