| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Naming the crime : defining genocide in international law -- The horror : Canada's forced transfer of indigenous children -- Coming to grips with Canada as a colonizing state : the creator knows their lies and so must we -- Smoke and mirrors : Canada's pretense of compliance with the genocide convention |
| Summary |
Originally approved as a master of laws thesis bya respected Canadian university, this booktackles one of the most compelling issues of ourtime--the crime of genocide--and whether in factit can be said to have occurred in relation to themany Original Nations on Great Turtle Island nowclaimed by a state called Canada. It has beenhailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenousand other scholars engaged with this issue,impacting not just Canada but states worldwidewhere entrapped Indigenous nations faceabsorption by a dominating colonial state.Starblanket unpacks Canada's role in the removalof cultural genocide from the GenocideConvention, though the disappearance of anOriginal Nation by forced assimilation wasregarded by many states as equally genocidal asdestruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek totailor the definition of genocide to escape its owncrimes which were then even ongoing? Thecrime of genocide, to be held as such undercurrent international law, must address thecomplicated issue of mens rea (not just thecommission of a crime, but the specific intent todo so). This book permits readers to make ajudgment on whether or not this was the case.Starblanket examines how genocide wasoperationalized in Canada, focused primarily onbreaking the intergenerational transmission ofculture from parents to children. Seeking toabsorb the new generations into a differentcultural identity--English-speaking, Christian,Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian--Canada seizedchildren from their parents, and oversaw andenforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs,languages and traditions, replacing them bythose still in process of being established by theemerging Canadian state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2018) |
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Winner of the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in support of controversy, Simon Fraser University --Front cover |
| SUBJECT |
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50072872
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9) fast |
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Indigenous children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
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Children and genocide -- Canada
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Genocide (International law)
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Crimes against humanity -- Law and legislation.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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Children and genocide
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Crimes against humanity -- Law and legislation
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Genocide (International law)
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018008085 |
| ISBN |
9780998694788 |
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0998694789 |
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