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Getting lots of folks asking about events happening Friday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Sharing in the next few posts the events that I know of on Treaty 6 territory.
If you’ve got one I’ve missed, I’m happy to share.
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Sharing in the next few posts the events that I know of on Treaty 6 territory.
If you’ve got one I’ve missed, I’m happy to share.
🧡
Creating Hope Society (@Creating_Hope_) are hosting “Calling our Spirits Back” at Boyle Street Plaza. Details here: eventbrite.ca/e/calling-our-…
Bent Arrow are hosting their 2nd annual #NDTR event. Follow @BentArrowYEG for all the info.
I'm fucking sick of #cdnmedia and talking head opionionist hacks
I want to know what THEY did to honour #NDTR
What did THEY do to reflect on Canada's horrendous history
How did THEY find time to listen and learn ,when they never stopped talking ?
I want to know what THEY did to honour #NDTR
What did THEY do to reflect on Canada's horrendous history
How did THEY find time to listen and learn ,when they never stopped talking ?
What survivors did they give their entire attention to yesterday?
What deserted stretch of beach ,did they walk ,hearing the voices of the dead ,the stolen?
What have they commited to doing on this path of truth and healing ?
Why didn't they use their time and platform ...
What deserted stretch of beach ,did they walk ,hearing the voices of the dead ,the stolen?
What have they commited to doing on this path of truth and healing ?
Why didn't they use their time and platform ...
.. yesterday to tell the truth of the horrors of residential assimilation homes ?
Why didn't they use their platform to shame the Premiers who refused to acknowledge the day ,or who did ,but not enough to adopt it as a Prov statutory day of reflection ?
Why didn't they use their platform to shame the Premiers who refused to acknowledge the day ,or who did ,but not enough to adopt it as a Prov statutory day of reflection ?
I've had a weird emotional day today and it comes from a lot of inner turmoil, as I was raised to be ashamed of my Indigenous heritage - as it would hurt my chances of success. My mother was very obviously Cree looking but I with my Irish father became white passing. #NDTR2021
Blending in meant that I wasn't called names like my mother but it also meant listening to friends, family, and colleagues make racist jokes and say that Indigenous people didn't contribute to society and it all reinforced the warnings to remain silent and hidden.
That was until my mother was dying of cancer and she took it upon herself to get me to explore my heritage as much as I could before she passed. Since then I have been blessed with Indigenous people in my life from many nations and I try and help be a voice where I can.
The first #NDTR is a direct response to The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 80, which called for a federal statutory day of commemoration to acknowledge those affected by residential schools and educate Canadians.
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It also coincides with Orange Shirt Day, a movement that began on Sept. 30, 2013, when residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation opened up about her trauma caused by residential schools.
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Indigenous people have long suspected that former residential schools had unmarked graveyards that hid their horrific human cost. Hundreds of such graves were reported this summer.
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Tomorrow I'll wake up to the first #NDTR and while I have my own thoughts on why National Indigenous Peoples Day should be a holiday and how we can make sure NDTR becomes a day of support for Indigenous People instead of a settler guilt holiday, its existence is a good start.
I have tough feelings involving #NDTR because I want actions that break down colonialism far more than just awareness which is still is good, but entire generations of Indigenous people already knew all of this had happened and collectively others burried their heads in the sand.
It took finding children in unmarked graves in a time when social media exists, do not think for a second there had not been previous discoveries just like this - because it was widely known to Indigenous people that children died there but their voices were ignored.
