Bibliography: BIB39120

Key	BIB39120
Reference type	Electronic Article
Title	Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation
Periodical title	The Bahá'í World Publication
Author	Danesh, Roshan and White, Douglas, III
Year	2023
Epub date	January 8, 2023
Publisher	Bahá'í World Centre
Place published	Haifa
Abstract	The history of Indigenous peoples8 in Canada, and their enduring struggle for justice, has been thoroughly documented. The broad strokes are undeniable. At the core of European colonization was the “doctrine of discovery,” a precept from the Papacy that, if no Christians lived in a land, the lands were to be considered “discovered” and uninhabited. Simply put, the ugly root of this principle was that if there were no Christian inhabitants, then there were no human inhabitants.9 Consequently, such lands were terra nullius, or empty of human beings. In the lands that now make up Canada, this racist doctrine justified a process of European settlement—and ultimately the founding of Canada in 1867—that included subjugating and displacing the diverse Indigenous peoples by imposing massive systems of oppression upon them.
Language	English
Keywords	CANADA; RECONCILIATION; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; CHILDREN; SCHOOLS, RESIDENTIAL; GENOCIDE
URL	https://bahaiworld.bahai.org/library/rising-to-the-challenge-of-reconciliation/
Date accessed	20230119