Indigenous Reparations and Settler Colonial Reckoning: Re-Braiding Rights and Redress in Canada

How Indigenous communities are transforming the idea and practice of reparations through their laws and leadershipIn recent decades, a growing number of Indigenous groups across Canada have initiated movements for colonial reparations.Too often, the settler state has responded by attempting to enfold their work into a narrative of reconciliation that consigns colonialism to "sad chapters" of history.In this book, Pauline Wakeham calls attention to the ways that Indigenous reparations movements exceed state reconciliatory frameworks and prompt a deeper reckoning with the enduring structures of settler colonialism. To expose and redress colonial injustices, Indigenous reparations movements draw upon long local traditions of political organizing as well as transformations on the global stage since World War II.As international law formulated new instruments regarding gross human rights violations, atrocity crimes, and the reparative obligations of states, colonized peoples across the worl