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Indigenous Perspective on the Land

Indigenous Perspective on the Land

Creative Spirits is a go-to resource (from Australia) for students, teachers and those hungry to know what they weren't taught. *Source: Helping you learn and teach about Aboriginal culture - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/ What does...

Understanding Local Treaties

Understanding Local Treaties

Pine Tree Talk – Understanding Local Treaties We would like to welcome you to an evening about Local Treaties, co-sponsored by the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, the Curve Lake First Nation and the Trent Centre for Teaching and Learning. We will explore...

Remembering MMIWG: REDress Project

Remembering MMIWG: REDress Project

The REDress Project was originally an art installation by Jaime Black in 2012 in which she collected and displayed a collection of red dresses to focus attention on the staggering number of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Red dresses...

Action Toward Reconciliation

Action Toward Reconciliation

Calls To Action Accountability: A Status Update On Reconciliation Dr. Eva Jewell  and Dr. Ian Mosby take a critical look at Canada's progress to date on implementing the Calls to Action recommended in the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation...

Community Outreach

Community Outreach

Truth and Reconciliation Bobcaygeon presented four community outreach opportunities at Kawartha Settlers’ Village this summer. On Monday July 3  there was a showing of Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire’s film ‘Secret Path’. On October 22, 1966 a young boy named Chanie...

Unlock the Summer

Unlock the Summer

Four Community Outreach opportunities at Kawartha Settlers Village this Summer:  ( Each event begins at 7 pm. ) July 3rd – The Secret Path video presentation July 17th – Insights from Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation commission community...

Water Walk

Water Walk

A Water Walk is a ceremonial event. There are protocols that you should be aware of if you wish to participate. This post includes a pdf that outlines what you need to know as well as excerpts from an article on a previous Water Walk around Rice Lake. Members of TRC-...