Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)
New Books in World Affairs
The Cultural Genecide of the Indigent
i gave it a look leading up to our interview here. And i would share an excerpt from the chapter with you. So andrew writes, without taking away what compensation and symbolic address redress might mean to an individual survivor of canada's indian residential school system. The very things that were targeted through the compulsory transfer of indigenous children to ssimilative schools are barely registered in the settlement agreement. Andrew also writes in the conclusion of his chapter, cultural genesite is rarely ever singularly cultural. When the cultural techniques of destruction, such as force assimilation through residential schools, sever relationships between indigenous children and their families, territories, language and other than human relations, they also strike at
