Kerry Coast

Whose Truth are First Nations Supposed to Reconcile with?

A few days ago, some of my colleagues were discussing the findings of the so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) — the Canadian-government established panel charged with a predetermined outcome: reconciliation, presumably under the status quo. After all, it was not called a Truth and Restorative Justice Commission.
I called the proceedings a whitewash because how could one conclude otherwise when the genocide is ongoing? ((See, for example, Kim Petersen, “

Perpetuating Colonialism

Wherefore, as becomes Catholic kings and princes, after earnest consideration of all matters, especially of the rise and spread of the Catholic faith, as was the fashion of your ancestors, kings of renowned memory, you have purposed with the favor of divine clemency to bring under your sway the said mainlands and islands with their residents and inhabitants and to bring them to the Catholic faith.
Inter Caetera Papal Bull issued by pope Alexander VI on 4 May 1493, granting Spain dominion over the western hemisphere