Reconciliation

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada – Calls to Action

Leave a Comment / Anti-Racism, Curricular Subjects, Trauma / By Julie Principe

19 Recommendations (from https://www.standcanada.org/truth-reconciliation-commission-report-summary/) Calls to Action Federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments must fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation Federal government must develop a national action plan, strategies, and other concrete measures to achieve the goals of the United Nations Declaration …

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Spirit Bear and Children Make History – Video

Leave a Comment / Anti-Racism, Core Competencies, Curricular Subjects, Social Emotional Learning-Educators, Social Emotional Learning-Parents, Trauma, Visuals / By Julie Principe

Spirit Bear and Children Make History tells the true story about how Spirit Bear and his friends stood with First Nations children to help make Jordan’s Principle a reality. A film by Spotted Fawn Productions and the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society.

Reconciliation Long Overdue

Leave a Comment / Anti-Racism, Core Competencies, Curricular Subjects, Social Emotional Learning-Educators, Social Emotional Learning-Parents, Trauma / By Julie Principe

I acknowledge the grief and trauma that Indigenous communities are experiencing as more children’s graves are “discovered” at the sites of closed Canadian Residential Schools. The elders in these communities and those participating in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada have been telling Canadians for decades about the horrors they experienced. Now finally, we …

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