Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations, and the Canadian State
Le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique et la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l鈥檃pprentissage et la production de connaissances au sein des mouvements sociaux accueillent Tamara Starblanket, du Native Education College, en Colombie Britannique. Elle parlera de son livre, Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations, and the Canadian State (Clarity Press, 2018). Mod茅rateur: professeur Aziz Choudry, Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l鈥檃pprentissage et la production de connaissances au sein des mouvements sociaux, 贵补肠耻濒迟茅 d'茅ducation, Universit茅 缅北强奸.
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[En anglais seulement] In her recently released book, Starblanket examines how genocide is operationalized in Canada, focused primarily on breaking the intergenerational transmission of Indigenous Peoples鈥� national identities from parents to children by the forcible removals from the Indigenous Nations on Turtle Island to the residential school system and present day removals in the child welfare system. Seeking to absorb the new generations into a different identity: English-speaking, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian, Canada seized children from their parents and Nations, and oversaw and enforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs, spirituality, languages and traditions, replacing them by those established by the Canadian state. She outlines the array and extent of the destruction which inevitably took place as part of the effort to bring about such a wrenching change鈥攆orcible indoctrination by means of massive and widespread death by disease and dilapidated living conditions, torture, forced starvation, forced labor, and sexual predation鈥攃ollateral destruction to Canada鈥檚 effort to absorb diverse original nations into one larger, alien and dominating body politic.
Concluding the lecture, she will present a short reading from her book.
脌 propos de la conf茅renci猫re
[En anglais seulement] Tamara Starblanket is a Nehiyaw Iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. Tamara holds an LLM from the University of Saskatchewan, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia. Her undergraduate degree is in political science from Simon Fraser University. She is Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples' Caucus (NAIPC). She presently teaches in and coordinates the criminology program at the Native Education College in Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, BC).
