The Theatre of Regret Memoir and reciprocity

and reciprocity

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Provincial and national inquiries into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls will soon be under way

Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction

and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

The Theatre of Regret Memoir and reciprocityThe Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenoussettler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics can work counter to retributive justice. The Theatre of Regret asks whether within the contexts of settler colonialism the approach to reconciliation will ultimately favour the state over the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature,