Engaging Indigenous Communities: Respect, Reciprocity, and Reconciliation

Overview & Synopsis

Engaging Indigenous Communities: Respect, Reciprocity, and Reconciliation – Past, Present, and Future is a collection of papers that reflect on historical, contemporary, and potential future relationships between Indigenous Peoples, settlers, and states. Each paper engages with the concepts of respect, reciprocity, and reconciliation within Canada and Mexico. Specifically, the authors demonstrate that there is no single all-encompassing view of reconciliation or decolonization. Despite a myriad of experiences, there authors show that knowledge of the past is the key to understanding the present and engaging with the potential future. Only by sharing our understandings and stories, with respect and reciprocity, can we begin to engage one another on the pathways to reconciliation. Simply, this volume may be seen as a small light within a wider discussion of the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, colonial states, and absolute need for a respectful and reciprocal movement toward reconciliation.