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a much needed examination and critique of the 'residential school' system for Indigenous children ...schools were to prevent Indigenous societies from perpetuating themselves. -- Peter Dericco, Law Professor, University of Massachusetts This carefully researched and penetrating study focuses on one of its ugliest manifestations, the forcible transferring of indigenous children, and makes a strong case for Canadian complicity in a form of 'cultural genocide' -- Noam Chomsky In confident, clear and succinct language, Starblanket shows how the states' treatment of First Nations Peoples has had genocidal effects. -- Irene Watson, Research Professor of Law, Univ. of South Australia

This carefully researched and penetrating study focuses on one of its ugliest manifestations, the forcible transferring of indigenous children, and makes a strong case for Canadian complicity in a form of 'cultural genocide' -- Noam Chomsky a much needed examination and critique of the 'residential school' system for Indigenous children ...schools were to prevent Indigenous societies from perpetuating themselves. -- Peter Dericco, Law Professor, University of Massachusetts In confident, clear and succinct language, Starblanket shows how the states' treatment of First Nations Peoples has had genocidal effects. -- Irene Watson, Research Professor of Law, Univ. of South Australia

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Tamara Starblanket is Spider Woman, a Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. Tamara holds an LLM (master of laws) from the University of Saskatchewan, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia. She is the Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples' Caucus (NAIPC). Foreword: Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He is a former Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a leading member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and the author of numerous books, including A Little Matter of Genocide, Struggle for the Land, and Fantasies of the Master Race. Afterword: Sharon Venne LLB (Notokwew Muskwa Manitokan) is an Indigenous Treaty person (Cree) and by marriage a member of the Blood Tribe within Treaty 7. Sharon has published materials on the history of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations since 1977 and an article on the problem of NGOs and their interference in Indigenous Peoples' exercise of the right to self-determination within international law. In 2015, Sharon was given the lifetime achievement award from the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians for her work for Treaty Peoples.

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