TRUTH & RECONCILIATION: HONOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, their history, and their legacy
September 30th is a federal statutory holiday in Canada called the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The truth-telling and reconciliation process is part of an overall holistic and comprehensive response to the Indian Residential School legacy. It acknowledges the injustices and harms experienced by the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the need for continued healing.
Participants will leave this session with an assured sense of why September 30th is Canada’s National Statutory Day for Truth and Reconciliation. They will also receive information on updated terminology and a better understanding of fundamental issues such as systemic racism and intergenerational trauma, which may have blocked them from participating in past conversations on Indigenous topics. Participants will learn that true reconciliation involves meaningful dialogue and how valuable it is for them to have a voice through knowledge empowerment, and most importantly, how their voices are needed now more than ever.
Please note: attendees will be confronted with historical and present-day truths which may make them feel uncomfortable. We address this in the presentation and discuss why it’s important to sit with being uncomfortable while asking participants to contemplate why they may be feeling that way. Once again, this is done respectably in a safe learning environment.
The presentation covers:
Terminology
The Indian Act
Residential Schools
Truth & Reconciliation as it applies to National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
Corporations Roles and Involvement (including takeaway actions for attendees to become involved in Reconciliation).
Systemic Racism
UNDRIP
Unceded Territory, Traditional Territory, and Treaties
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (and also Transgender and Two-Spirit).
Q&A Session
