Richard Therrien

RICHARD THERRIEN is a poet, researcher, cultural worker, editor, filmmaker, ghost-writer and landscape labourer. His poems and articles appear regularly in a number of journals and he has written reviews for The Calgary Herald and Windspeaker.

Books by Richard Therrien

Accounting for Genocide

Accounting for Genocide

Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal People

Dean Neu, Richard Therrien

Accounting for Genocide is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Its authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations with bureaucratic mechanisms—soft technologies—to deprive Native peoples of their land and natural resources and to control the minutiae of their daily economic and social… (more information)