Book excerpt: 'Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts its History' by Jim Miller

University of Saskatchewan historian Jim Miller’s 1989 book, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens, was the first among several of his comprehensive works delving into Canada’s newcomer-Indigenous relations, residential schools and treaty-making. Now professor emeritus, Miller’s latest book, Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts its History, also is the first comprehensive historical study of reconciliation. He covers a lot of ground, including the apologies by church