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5 Considerations for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is for non-Indigenous folks to sit with the truth and reflect on the work that has to be done – not just on Sept 30th, but every day of the year. The problem is, on October 1st, most non-Indigenous folks take off their orange shirts and go back to their day-to-day lives, ignoring Indigenous peoples and our countri’s violence towards them.
Let's talk about Indian Day "Schools"
Day "schools" existed in addition to residential "schools". This is an additional form of violence against Indigenous children, families & communities by our government, because like residential "schools", day "schools" were used to "assimilate" Indigenous children, which continued the physical, cultural & spiritual genocide of Indigenous Peoples.
Most of Us are Giving Land Acknowledgements Wrong
Most of us are doing land acknowledgements wrong - and it shows.
1 year since the recovery of the remains of 215 children in Kamloops B.C
We continue to fail as treaty partners — both as non-Indigenous individuals and as a country. We don’t have faith in our system, but we do have faith in *you.* We can choose — right here, right now — to be better than the colonizers of the past. We, the people, can demand change.
The Great Canadian Fallacy
Because while abortion is decriminalized in Canada, there are no federal laws governing it. Just because something is decriminalized doesn't mean it's accessible, equitable, supported and protected — and we should be fucking infuriated about that.
The Ongoing and Ignored Genocides going on in Canada
Can we talk about the colonial-audacity of our government to unanimously vote to call what is happening in Ukraine a genocide while doing nothing about the ongoing genocide happening in Canada to Indigenous women, girls and two spirit folk??
How Canada destroyed Indigenous food systems 🌾
Learn how colonial structures systemically fucked Indigenous food systems…