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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS
卷 27, 期 2, 页码 380-402出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2022.2131771
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reconciliation; settler colonialism; truth and reconciliation commissions; refusal; Indigenous; child welfare
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The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MWTRC) highlights the historical and continued refusal of Wabanaki people to accept settler violence, especially in Native child welfare systems. The MWTRC actively rejects reconciliation with settler colonialism and seeks long-term transformative change for the Wabanaki people.
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MWTRC) is one of the more recent examples of the truth and reconciliation model being used in a settler colonial context. This article argues that the MWTRC highlighted a historical and continued refusal by Wabanaki people to ongoing systems of white settler violence especially in the form of Native child welfare. Examining the MWTRC through the lens of refusal allows for a critical analysis of the ways in which the MWTRC subverts neoliberal reconciliation models that leave colonial structures unchallenged and unchanged. The MWTRC, as a process founded and led by Wabanaki and settler social workers and Wabanaki survivors of the child welfare system, actively refused reconciliation with settler colonialism. Instead it sought a process predicated on a relationship that accepted the realities of historical and continued oppression of Wabanaki people and sought long-term transformative change for Wabanaki people. Relying on two years of conversations between the authors and the community of Wabanaki and settler individuals who initiated and partook in this process, this article offers an analysis of the MWTRC and how its strategy of refusal denied settler colonial co-option of a Wabanaki-centred process.
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