Bibliography: ZNAZ4SCV

key	ZNAZ4SCV
title	Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation
author	Danesh, Roshan; White, Douglas
authority control	Roshan Danesh; Douglas White III
item type	Journal article
date	20230119
publication title	The Bahá'í World Publication
abstract note	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.
publisher	Bahá'í World Centre
place	Haifa
language	English
link attachments	https://bahaiworld.bahai.org/library/rising-to-the-challenge-of-reconciliation/
manual tags	INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; CANADA; CHILDREN; RECONCILIATION; GENOCIDE; SCHOOLS, RESIDENTIAL
section	January 8, 2023