Editor’s Note: This is one of two related pieces in the October 2019 issue. The Hon. Harry S. LaForme offers a counterargument with “Yes, Genocide.”
Only four years ago, a tremendous change occurred in how many non-Indigenous Canadians perceive Indigenous people. The chief justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, used the phrase “cultural genocide” in late May 2015 to describe a number of government…
J.R. Miller
J.R. Miller wrote Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History and other books. He was a long-time professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.