Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools (Teaching Culture: Utp Ethnographies for the Classroom) - Hardcover

Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different from others around the world? What kinds of narratives are emerging and what does that mean for reconciliation, transitional justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory? What happens to the ultimate goal of reconciliation when a large part of the testimony that of nuns, priests, and government officials is scarcely evident in the Commission's proceedings? Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising in the need to tell the "truth" as he sees it, Niezen offers an important contribution to our understanding of TRC processes in general, and the Canadian experience in particular."

Ronald Niezen is the Katherine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy at McGill University. He has published widely in the area of indigenous peoples and human rights and is the author, most recently, of Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law (2010) and The Rediscovered Self: Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice (2009).