"The Residential School model existed in both Canada and the United States. It involved the systematic removal of Indigenous children – some as young as four – from their parents. These children were housed in crowded ‘boarding schools’ where – in addition to being subjected to an ‘English only’ education and corporal punishment for any expression of cultural heritage – they were “systematically demeaned and degraded, subjected to both physical and psychological torture (including wholesale sexual predation), denied […] adequate nutrition, medical care, or clothing, and typically impressed into manual labor” (p. 22). As Starblanket demonstrates, precisely and conclusively, this programme of organized, racist, colonial violence amounts to genocide, as the crime has been defined in international law." DARRYL BARTHE, Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 2(1),
"Tamara Starblanket's work is confident, clear and succinct; her work is ground-breaking and provides us with new ways of looking at how the states treatment of First Nations Peoples has gone unrecognised for its genocidal affect. This work provides an excellent critique on the exclusion of cultural genocide from how genocide is defined in international law."
IRENE WATSON, Research Professor of Law, University of South Australia
"Settler-colonialism reveals the brutal face of imperialism in some of its most vicious forms.  This carefully researched and penetrating study focuses on one of its ugliest manifestations, the forcible transferring of indigenous children, and makes a strong case for Canadian complicity in a form of 'cultural genocide' – with implications that reach to the Anglosphere generally, and to some of the worst crimes of the 'civilized world' in the modern era." NOAM CHOMSKY