Patrick Belanger is associate professor of communication studies at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Patrick Belanger has produced, in a single muscular volume, one of the most forward-thinking analyses of truth and reconciliation politics in Canada and the most honest prescriptive for moving along productively with decolonial solutions. Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization balances a colonial critique of settler culture in Canada with on-the-ground ways of moving toward a reparative program of reconciliation for Indigenous peoples. Rhetoric and Settler Inertia promises to be a high water mark in reconciliation politics, working applicably and practically from the more theoretical work being done on Indigenous decoloniality.

• Chapter 1: ColonizationChapter 2: The Federal Apology for Indian Residential Schools Chapter 3: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Chapter 4: The U’mista Cultural CentreChapter 5: Common GroundChapter 6: Interest Convergence