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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
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About Suffer The Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous
Product Description Originally approved as a master of laws thesis bya respected Canadian university, this booktackles one of the most compelling issues of ourtime—the crime of genocide—and whether in factit can be said to have occurred in relation to themany Original Nations on Great Turtle Island nowclaimed by a state called Canada. It has beenhailed as groundbreaking by many Indigenousand other scholars engaged with this issue,impacting not just Canada but states worldwidewhere entrapped Indigenous nations faceabsorption by a dominating colonial state.Starblanket unpacks Canada’s role in the removalof cultural genocide from the GenocideConvention, though the disappearance of anOriginal Nation by forced assimilation wasregarded by many states as equally genocidal asdestruction by slaughter. Did Canada seek totailor the definition of genocide to escape its owncrimes which were then even ongoing? Thecrime of genocide, to be held as such undercurrent international law, must address thecomplicated issue of mens rea (not just thecommission of a crime, but the specific intent todo so). This book permits readers to make ajudgment on whether or not this was the case.Starblanket examines how genocide wasoperationalized in Canada, focused primarily onbreaking the intergenerational transmission ofculture from parents to children. Seeking toabsorb the new generations into a differentcultural identity—English-speaking, Christian,Anglo-Saxon, termed Canadian—Canada seizedchildren from their parents, and oversaw andenforced the stripping of their cultural beliefs,languages and traditions, replacing them bythose still in process of being established by theemerging Canadian state. Review "This carefully researched and penetrating study focuses on one of its ugliest manifestations, the forcible transferring of indigenous children, and makes a strong case for Canadian complicity in a form of 'cultural genocide'" -- Noam Chomsky "a much needed examination and critique of the 'residential school’ system for Indigenous children ...schools were to prevent Indigenous societies from perpetuating themselves." -- Peter Dericco, Law Professor, University of Massachusetts "In confident, clear and succinct language, Starblanket shows how the states' treatment of First Nations Peoples has had genocidal effects." -- Irene Watson, Research Professor of Law, Univ. of South Australia About the Author Tamara Starblanket is Spider Woman, a Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. Tamara holds an LLM (master of laws) from the University of Saskatchewan, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia. She is the Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus (NAIPC). Foreword: Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He is a former Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a leading member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and the author of numerous books, including A Little Matter of Genocide, Struggle for the Land, and Fantasies of the Master Race. Afterword: Sharon Venne LLB (Notokwew Muskwa Manitokan) is an Indigenous Treaty person (Cree) and by marriage a member of the Blood Tribe within Treaty 7. Sharon has published materials on the history of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations since 1977 and an article on the problem of NGOs and their interference in Indigenous Peoples’ exercise of the right to self-determination within international law. In 2015, Sharon was given the lifetime achievement award from the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians for her work for Treaty Peoples.
