“Killing the Indian in the Child”: Death, Cruelty, and Subject-formation in the Canadian Indian Residential School System

Abstract

Provoked by the religious and state ethos for the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, to kill the Indian in the child , this essay engages Lacanian psychoanalysis and theories of biopolitics to conceptualize processes and practices of subject-formation and self-making within the circuitry of the Canadian Indian Residential School System.