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2024-11-26
Listening to Indigenous Voices - Facilitators and Organizers Gathering

On November 26, the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice held an online exchange for Listening to Indigenous Voices (LTIV) organizers & facilitators.  The online forum gave the participants an opportunity to share their LTIV experiences, best practices and post-LTIV activities they have initiated in their groups and communities. The hope is that the […]

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2024-09-27
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024

September 30, 2024 marks Canada’s 4th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday devoted to honouring survivors of residential schools, as well as the children who will never return to their families and communities.  The Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice seeks to honour this public commemoration of such a tragic […]

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2024-09-27
We need to amplify the voice of Grassy Narrows First Nation

Members of the Jesuit Forum joined thousands in downtown Toronto in a march to Queen's Park to demand long needed action to address the mercury poisoning the drinking water of Grassy Narrows First Nation. Community members and leaders travelled over 1700 km from Grassy Narrows, near Ontario's border with Manitoba border, to Toronto to demand […]

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2024-09-24
Spirit Garden Public Opening

Monday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. On this day, the much anticipated Spirit Garden will be officially opened to the public at Nathan Phillips Square at 1:00pm during the 2024 Indigenous Legacy Gathering. This permanent memorial, designed by Indigenous artists, is a response “to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of […]

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 The Jesuit Forum is based in Tkaronto, on land that has been taken care of, for thousands of years, by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous Peoples. We acknowledge the current treaty holders and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an inspiring agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on this beautiful land, with gorgeous trees and lakes. We hope to grow more conscious and appreciative of this life community, of its Indigenous history, presence and wisdom. 

 

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"You have noticed that everything an Indian does is done in a circle, 
and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, 
and everything tries to be round.  
 
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.  
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are the stars.  The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.  
Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.  
The sun comes forth and goes down in a circle. 
The moon does the same, and both are round.  
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, 
and always come back again to where they were.  
 
The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, 
and so it is in everything where power moves.  
 
Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, 
and these were always set in a circle, 
the nation's hoop, 
a nest of many nests, 
where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children." 
 
~ Black Elk Speaks (Chapter 17), 1933
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Young girls carrying buckets in the Dogon region,
near Bandiagara, Mali (14°20’ N, 3°37’ W).

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