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ABSTRACTLu’s distinction between interactional and structural injustice helps to clarify both the normative significance and some of the shortcomings of recommendations adopted by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). At the same time, the TRC highlights three challenges to addressing structural injustice in the context of reconciliation.
Highlights
Residential schools were established in the late nineteenth century across Canada to assimilate Indigenous children
The schools leave behind an appalling legacy of child sexual and physical abuse, high disease and death rates, coercive assimilation, loss of language, cultural dislocation, and the destruction of kinship structures and familial bonds as some children were forcibly removed from their families
Their legacy has been profound both as a matter of historic record and in terms of how they impact Indigenous peoples living in Canada today, most of whom experienced the ill effects of residential schools one way or another
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