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Native Americans, especially those living on Indian reservations, are subjected to a labyrinth of conflicting issues that make sovereignty & basic rights virtually unattainable. Further, Native Americans continue to face serious obstacles when dealing with US courts of law. Jurisdictional disputes over historically indigenous land have weakened Native American attempts at self-governance & protection. Racist organizations perpetuate anti-Indian legislation, while many discriminatory individuals have contributed to increasingly racialized nation-states. It is unlikely that this deplorable situation will be remedied any time soon. As non-native immigrants continue to pour into the US from Mexico & South America, & as the Native American population continues to grow, it can only be predicted that federal-Indian relations will become progressively more strained. K. A. Larsen

Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases that have emerged in Canada in recent decades, Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state.In this volume, leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences relate contemporary political and social efforts to redress wrongs to the fraught history of government relations with Aboriginal and diasporic populations. The contributors offer ground-breaking perspectives on Canada's 'culture of redress,' broaching questions of law and constitutional change, political coalitions, commemoration, testimony, and literatures of injury and its aftermath. Also assembled together for the first time is a collection of primary documents – including government reports, parliamentary debates, and redress movement statements – prefaced with contextual information. Reconciling Canada provides a vital and immensely relevant illumination of the dynamics of reconciliation, apology, and redress in contemporary Canada