Cultivating Canada
Subtitle: reconciliation through the lens of cultural diversity
By: edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné
Contributors: Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Canada)
Series: Aboriginal Healing Foundation research series; Truth and reconciliation -- v. 3; Aboriginal Healing Foundation research series
Publisher: Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781897285985; 9781897285992
Subjects: Diversité culturelle; Reconciliation; Réconciliation; Indians of North America; Artistes; Cultural assimilation; Social conditions; Communication interculturelle; Treatment of Indians; Emigration and immigration; Education; Art canadien; History
Other titles: Translated as: Cultiver le Canada.
Description: The third in a three-volume series addressing the complex notion of reconciliation in a national landscape. The Aboriginal Healing Foundation brings together disparate voices to address how communities -- immigrant, racialized, 'new' Canadians and other minoritized groups relate to the intricacies of reconciliation as a concept. Many of the contributers address questions of land, Aboriginal histories, and different trajectories that have led to the current configuration and conglomeration of peoples in this geographic space. And, a central organizing principle of this collection is artistic practice, of specifically in how embedding creative acts within critical responses helps to create a relevant framework of possibilities as we move inexorably into uncertain futures."--Back cover.

"This third volume is populated by the perspectives of new Canadians and those outside the traditional settler communities of British and French. Because Canada is a nation of diverse cultures, its people drawn from every region of the world, any discussion of reconciliation must include the perspectives of those who have arrived in more recent days and those who trace their family histories beyond western European colonial states. The reason for this is simple. Aboriginal people have a unique historical relationship with the Crown, and the Crown represents all Canadians. From this it follows that all Canadians are treaty people, bearing the responsibilities of Crown commitments and enjoying the rights and benefits of being Canadian.

From this simple principle we proceed to much complexity. The subjects of historical wrongdoings and redress, healing, and reconciliation have many localized variants, among them the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War and the demolition of Africville in the 1960s, for examples. Those who have arrived in Canada from places of colonization, war, genocide, and devastation will very likely have valuable insights into historical trauma; their perspectives should be considered also."--Introduction.
Notes: Issued also in French under title: Cultiver le Canada : réconciliation sous l'éclairage de la diversité.

"The third in a three-volume series addressing the complex notion of reconciliation in a national landscape"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Ramblings and resistances  -- Shirley Bear; title: Napa North  -- Henry Tsang and Glen Lowry; title: Land project : a conversation between Canada and Israel/Palestine  -- Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, b.h. Yael; title: "On loan" : thoughts on stolen strength, seeds of lubestrok, seeds of truth, seeds of reconciliation  -- Sandra Semchuk (with James Nicholas) and Elwood Jimmy; title: Reconciling with the people and the land?  -- Dorothy Christian; title: What would restitution and regeneration look like from the point of view of water?  -- Rita Wong; title: Stories from the little black school house  -- Sylvia D. Hamilton; title: Beyond imaginings : photography from the Greenbelt  -- Meera Margaret Singh; title: Parallel histories  -- Jamelie Hassan and Miriam Jordan; title: Cross racial encounters and juridical truths : (dis)aggregating race in British Columbia's Contact Zone  -- Renisa Mawani; title: Arctic Bayanihan  -- Rhose Harris-Galia; title: Aiyah! : a little rouse of time and space  -- Sid Chow Tan; title: The attempted genocide and ethnocide of the Roma  -- Ronald Lee; title: Decolonizing anti-racism  -- Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua; title: People of colour in treaty  -- Robinder Kaur Sehdev; title: Learning through crossing lines : an intercultural dialogue  -- Srimoyee Mitra; title: Are people of colour settlers too?  -- Malissa Phung; title: Nurturing dialogues between First Nations, urban Aboriginal, and immigrant communities in Vancouver  -- Henry Yu; title: By turns poetic : redress as transformation  -- Roy Miki; title: Exploring non-Aboriginal attitudes towards reconciliation in Canada : the beginnings of targeted focus group research  -- Ravi de Costa and Tom Clark; title: Into the ranks of man : vicious modernism and the politics of reconciliation  -- Rinaldo Walcott; title: A sorry state  -- Mitch Miyagawa; title: Engendering audience responsibility : the work of Jayce Salloum "in affinity with"  -- Jen Budney and Jayce Salloum; title: Slavery endangers the masters' health : but please don't shoot the messenger  -- Rita Shelton Deverell; title: "Indigenous Blacks" : an irreconcilable identity?  -- George Elliott Clarke; title: Girl : an aesthetic amalgamation  -- Diyan Achjadi; title: Memoryscapes of postwar British Columbia : a look of recognition  -- Kirsten Emiko McAllister; title: Conclusion : the way forward -- Mike DeGagné and Jonathan Dewar.