David B. MacDonald is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph and Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

• Introduction1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide

"In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians." - Jane Griffith (Ontario History) "MacDonald’s argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms."- Sarah Maddison (The British Journal)

David B. MacDonald is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph and Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

• Introduction1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide

"In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians." - Jane Griffith (Ontario History) "MacDonald’s argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms."- Sarah Maddison (The British Journal)

David B. MacDonald is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph and Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

• Introduction1. Understanding Genocide: Raphael Lemkin, the UN Genocide Convention, and International Law2. Pluralists, Indigenous Peoples, and Colonial Genocide3. Forcible Transfer as Genocide in the Indian Residential Schools4. The Sixties and Seventies Scoop and the Genocide Convention5. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Question of Genocide6. The TRC, Indigenous Death, Inside and Outside the Residential Schools7. Indigenous Genocide: Remembering, Commemorating, Forgetting8. Indigenous Peoples and Genocide: Challenges of Recognition and Remembering9. Reconciliation, Resurgence, and Rollback in the Aftermath of Genocide

"In addition to residential school survivor memoirs, the superb The Sleeping Giant Awakens should be mandatory reading for all Canadians." - Jane Griffith (Ontario History) "MacDonald’s argument that the harms of forcible transfer are genocidal is compelling and well made. As he also acknowledges, however, the settler state cannot resolve or fully address these harms unless it is prepared to enter into a new relationship with First Nations on profoundly different terms."- Sarah Maddison (The British Journal)