Beyond NDTR: ReconciliACTion Speaker Serieses

ReconciliACTION: Speaker Serieses

September 30th is recognized federally as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, calling on everyone who lives in Canada to reflect on our responsibilities to support and heal alongside Indigenous communities enduring settler colonialism.

Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Report in 2015, the Yellowhead Institute reports that only 11 of the 94 Calls to Action have been completed. We recognize that this work cannot be done overnight. Decolonizing our hearts and minds requires us to reflect on the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples and communities, and work year round to further personal and systemic reconciliation tasks.

Atlohsa and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives have partnered to invite you to learn and unlearn with us through our year-long speaker series entitled ReconciliACTION: Speaker Series offered at Wampum Learning Lodge at London, Ontario. We invite you to learn with us as we journey together towards radical truth telling and self-reflection to reconcile Canada’s ongoing settler colonialism with the loving future we envision for our communities. All are welcome.

See a list of future evets here
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We wore our orange shirts, now what?

Now that we’ve observed the very first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and people are starting to learn truths about Indian Residential Schools and the colonization of Canada, we must continue to keep these truths at the forefront of our minds, and strive to make space for Indigenous voices and perspectives across the institution year-round.

It is crucial that we stay engaged in Reconciliation work at Western University, and interrogate the systems and structures that perpetuate settler-colonialism within this institution. 

On September 22, 2021, Western’s Indigenous Learning Circle, Biindigen, hosted a session on ReconciliACTion, encouraging participants to reflect critically upon their roles and responsibilities in Reconciliation. We drew key themes from this  Padlet activity, to create an infographic.

Take a look below and see what you can get started on right away. Below the infographic you will find a link to TRC Report reading sessions hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Theatre Studies at Western and as well as other resource, book, podcast and video recommendations.

Truth and Reconciliation at Western

TRC INFOGRAPHIC

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The TRC Report
The postdoctoral fellows at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Theatre Studies at Western program invite you to join us in a durational reading of the executive summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report ( TRC ), part of an initiative by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Read more here. 

Register here. 

 

  

Book Cover: Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience

 

Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience: Confronting Cultural & Ecological Crisis

This recently published book by Maori scholar Lewis Williams, Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and Geography at Western "argues that there is a need to develop greater Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes and adversity." 

Download the book here.

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