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First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust

Rewriting Indigenous History in the United States and Canada

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ID6239409
AuthorsD B Macdonald (0000-0003-1440-7680, University of Otago, corresponding author), David Macdonald (0000-0002-8820-6067)
Year2007
Volume40
Issue4
Pages995-1015
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423907071107
OpenAlexW2131961891
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited40

The Americanization of the Holocaust has encouraged some notable activists, purportedly acting on behalf of indigenous peoples, to present European colonization as a “holocaust,” repackaging colonial history in starkly black-and-white terms. I pay particular attention to discussions in America and Canada over the genocidal implications of indigenous residential schooling. There is a twin danger involved. At one level the Holocaust is subjected to a process of trivialization. At another level, framing history through the Holocaust decontextualizes group histories by re-reading past victimization through a distinctive and different series of events. While comparing historical atrocities can be academically fruitful, activists will do better to highlight the traumatic effects of atrocities on individuals and families, noting their intergenerational legacies. This may be a better way of representing history, and of building bridges between diverse groups. Résumé. L'américanisation de l'holocauste a encouragé d'éminents activistes, prétendant agir au nom des autochtones, à présenter la colonisation européenne comme un “holocauste”, reformulant ainsi l'histoire coloniale en termes crûment arrêtés. Je porte une attention toute particulière aux discussions menées au Canada et aux États-Unis concernant les implications génocides de la scolarité des autochtones en internat. Deux dangers se présentent. D'une part l'holocauste est exposé à un processus de banalisation. D'autre part, formuler l'histoire par l'holocauste isole de leur contexte les histoires des groupes en relisant les persécutions passées sous le jour d'une série d'événements distinctive et différente. Bien qu'il soit intellectuellement utile de comparer les atrocités historiques, les activistes feront mieux de souligner les effets traumatisants des atrocités sur les individus et les familles et le triste héritage laissé aux générations suivantes. C'est peut-être une meilleure façon de représenter l'histoire et de faire des rapprochements entre des groupes divers

Americanization · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · The Holocaust · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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Citations per year0,81
Citation span2010 - 2024 (15)
Citation velocityrecent
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