Abstract
MacDonald offers a much-needed overview of the Indian Residential Schools (IRS) in Canada and the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada. His chapter explores the similarities and differences between the TRC and other truth commissions, focusing on its non-judicial and victim-centered aspects. He examines debates about the applicability of Holocaust atonement models to redress for the IRS system and the more general debates about genocide and reconciliation that developed during the six-year mandate of the TRC. Specific reference to foreign genocides and their aftermath were downplayed in favor of commemoration which had a far more domestic, Indigenous focus.
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