Troubling the Path to Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Illegitimacy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leslie Thielen-Wilson
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 181-197
Description
"In this paper, I argue that Indian Residential School (IRS) litigation, and the emphasis on "cultural loss" or genocide, threatened to expose the illegitimacy of Canada's claim to sovereignty and the settler collective's occupancy of Indigenous lands today".