The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

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In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually the whole thing that non-Indigenous Canadians imagine about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing.

Manuel and Derrickson show how governments are making an attempt to reconcile with Indigenous Peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. They review the current state of land claims. They tackle the persistence of racism among non-Indigenous people and institutions. They celebrate Indigenous Rights Movements at the same time as decrying the role of government-funded organizations like the Assembly of First Nations. They document the federal government’s omit for the substance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the same time as claiming to put into effect it. These circumstances amount to what they see as a false reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

Instead, Manuel and Derrickson offer an illuminating vision of what Canada and Canadians need for true reconciliation.

In this book, which Arthur Manuel and Ron Derrickson completed in the months before Manuel’s death in January 2017, readers will recognize their profound understanding of the country, of its past, present, and potential future.

Expressed with quiet but firm unravel, humour, and piercing intellect The Reconciliation Manifesto will appeal to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who find themselves open and willing to have a look at the true problems and find real solutions.

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