The Journal of Teaching and Learning, Fall 2018 Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 53–55. http://www.uwindsor.ca/jtl 53 Book Review: Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations, and the Canadian State by Tamara Starblanket Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2018, 374 pages ISBN: 978-0-9986947-7-1 (Paperback) Reviewed by: Travis Hay Lakehead University Suffer the Little Children is a path-breaking text that rigorously and robustly documents the numerous ways in which the Canadian state has and continues to commit genocide against Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Starblanket, a Nehiyaw legal scholar, offers a richly researched legal intervention that brings forth the tensions between the definition of genocide as codified in international law (which is inclusive to measures such as the theft of children and the sterilization of women) and the very limited and incomplete ratification of this framework in Canada (wherein the federal government excluded definitional aspects that captured the essence of their own federal Indian policy). In successfully and critically contextualizing these tensions across the 20th century with a focus on the residential schooling system and the politics of reconciliation, Starblanket’s text promises to be a standard in the fields of Canadian legal studies, political science, and colonial history. I also suspect that her work will be cited widely by scholars situated in Indigenous studies. Starblanket’s originality and unique approach to the legal issue of genocide is appreciated and much needed to deconstruct settler colonization and genocide. The text is neatly organized. In chapter one, readers receive a thorough definitional treatment of genocide in the context of international law. In chapter two, titled simply “The Horror”, readers receive an unblinking and unsettling look into the history and structure of the residential school system. It is within this chapter that Starblanket makes clear in no uncertain terms that what happened in the Canadian residential school system was not merely cultural genocide, but biological genocide, as deaths from starvation, poor living conditions, and tuberculosis caused the suffering and death of