Faded by Design: Manufacturing Agnosis of Settler-Colonialism in an Era of Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

This chapter considers the work of scholars examining concepts such as transitional justice and counterinsurgency and argues that, by manufacturing reconciliation in Canada in ways that fall short of rights entitlements, Crown representatives may be seeking to relegate settler-colonialism merely to the past (as something that had merely historical impacts) in order to achieve better assimilative outcomes through a structure of historical ignorance. To illustrate, this chapter considers changes to Indigenous land claims processes at the federal level as well as provincial actions that could be seen as limiting with respect to Indigenous claims.