Description
With the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, more Canadians than ever are aware of the ugly history of Canada's residential schools. Nearly twenty years earlier, UMP published John Milloy's A National Crime, a groundbreaking history of the schools that exposed details of the system to thousands of readers.
Using previously unreleased government documents accessed during his work for the Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples, A National Crime was one of the first comprehensive studies of the history of residential schools, and it remains a powerful indictment of the racist and colonial policies that inspired and sustained them.A National Crime convincingly argues that rather than bringing Indigenous childern into what its planners called ""the circle of civiziliation"" the schools more often provided an inferior eduction in an atmosphere of neglect, disease and abuse.
As UMP marks its fifth decade, and Canada struggles towards truth and reconciliation, it is fitting to reissue A National Crime -one of our most influential publications and a cornerstone of our Indigenous studies list-with a new foreword by a scholar in the vanguard of Indigenous historians in Canada. Mary Jane Logan McCallum's foreword sets the story of A National Crime in the context of Indigenous historiography and her own family history, from the broad level of national Indian policy to its impacton individual lives lived.
About the Author
John Milloyis a professor emeritus in the departments of Native Studies and History, and Master of Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
Mary Jane Logan McCallum is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Winnipeg and is the author of Indigenous Women, Work and History, 1940-1980.
Reviews
One of the 100 most important Canadian books ever written""-Literary Review of Canada
""Milloy's book should be mandatory reading of all citizens of the Americans""-Globe and Mail.
Book Information
ISBN 9780887557897
Author John S. Milloy
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint University of Manitoba Press
Publisher University of Manitoba Press
Weight(grams) 698g
Using previously unreleased government documents accessed during his work for the Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples, A National Crime was one of the first comprehensive studies of the history of residential schools, and it remains a powerful indictment of the racist and colonial policies that inspired and sustained them.A National Crime convincingly argues that rather than bringing Indigenous childern into what its planners called ""the circle of civiziliation"" the schools more often provided an inferior eduction in an atmosphere of neglect, disease and abuse.
As UMP marks its fifth decade, and Canada struggles towards truth and reconciliation, it is fitting to reissue A National Crime -one of our most influential publications and a cornerstone of our Indigenous studies list-with a new foreword by a scholar in the vanguard of Indigenous historians in Canada. Mary Jane Logan McCallum's foreword sets the story of A National Crime in the context of Indigenous historiography and her own family history, from the broad level of national Indian policy to its impacton individual lives lived.
About the Author
John Milloyis a professor emeritus in the departments of Native Studies and History, and Master of Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
Mary Jane Logan McCallum is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Winnipeg and is the author of Indigenous Women, Work and History, 1940-1980.
Reviews
One of the 100 most important Canadian books ever written""-Literary Review of Canada
""Milloy's book should be mandatory reading of all citizens of the Americans""-Globe and Mail.
Book Information
ISBN 9780887557897
Author John S. Milloy
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint University of Manitoba Press
Publisher University of Manitoba Press
Weight(grams) 698g
