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Janie [Mason] Chisolm...a descendant of a royal family who ruled Scotland between 1200 and the mid-1700s. No longer in power, the ruling family and ancestors (the Chisolm Clan) migrated to the Americas. Some of the “Clan” leaders, after settling near Charleston, South Carolina became owners of slave plantations. As the civil war ended in 1865, Janie Mason had become “friendly” with Samuel, a former slave; a relationship forbidden by cultural practices, strict laws and “outward appearance.” Janie, a descendant of wealth, royalty and influence rejected the standards designed by humans, instead chose to follow the standards designed by God; she “followed her heart.” The life of ...
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Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In The Sleeping Giant Awakens, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canada's past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined in domestic and international law, the book applies the concept to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to residential schools and the "Sixties Scoop," in which Indigenous children were taken from their communities and placed in foster homes or adopted. Based on archival research, extensive interviews with residential school Survivors, a...
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Arranged by state, this volume contains the elected officials from all three branches of state government, including the offices of governor, lt. governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, auditor, supreme court justice, as well as every state legislator.