LISTENING TO INDIGENOUS VOICES

"To some people, reconciliation is the re-establishment of a conciliatory state. However, this is a state that many Aboriginal people assert never has existed between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.... Reconciliation is about establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in this country. In order for that to happen, there has to be awareness of the past, acknowledgement of the harm that has been inflicted, atonement for the causes, and action to change behaviour.... Without truth, justice, and healing, there can be no genuine reconciliation. Reconciliation is not about “closing a sad chapter of Canada’s past,” but about opening new healing pathways of reconciliation that are forged in truth and justice."
— Truth and Reconciliation Commission

​Key Online Resources

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Watch the video (above) "Namwayut: We are all One - Truth and Reconciliation in Canada" ​

To, find out more:
Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Report and Findings
► See CBC's "Beyond 94" website which monitors progress on the TRC's 94 calls to action and the related teaching guide
► Read: 1 year after Joyce Echaquan’s death, Indigenous leaders say issues of racism in health care persist

​Righting Relationships

► Watch "Reconciliation through Indigenous Law" and "Living Indigenous Law and Climate Change" by Dr. John Borrows (author of "Warming Relationships" in the guide)
Listen to acclaimed Stó:lō storyteller Lee Maracle explains her thoughts on decolonizing literature as she delivers the 2020 Margaret Laurence Lecture.
◄ The NFB film nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, directed by Tasha Hubbard, weaves a profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies, and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands.

 

 

Classroom Connections

Research Project:  The Knower's Chair.

Spiritual Reflections

For use by faith and spirituality groups:
How Do We Repair the Irreparable?
by Mathieu Lavigne.

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