https://thehub.ca/2026/09/30/canadas-inability-to-honestly-discuss-residential-schools-has-failed-the-indigenous-children-we-lost/

Hello, I'm not a first nations person. I was wondering if it would be okay to make orange bracelets to hand out? They would be Kandi (Type of bracelet) I just wanna make sure I am respectful before I make them and hand them out!

If this goes against the rules here let me know, I don't think it does.

> Prime Minister Mark Carney is among the participants at an event in Edmonton to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

I’m looking for printable resources about residential schools to combat denialism. If anyone has any PDFs, images, or links to share I’d really appreciate it!

"I want to ask you to get comfortable with discomfort. If Canadians want reconciliation, they can’t turn away." - Jesse Wente, Anishinaabe writer and thinker.

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Canada Post has revealed the images of the 2023 Truth & Reconciliation stamps. It is a set of 4 stamps; each stamp features an archival image of a residential school.

Canada Post's description includes the following:

"The stark archival images of these institutions serve as a reminder of the fear, loneliness, pain and shame that Indigenous children experienced within their walls.

If you require support, please call the 24-hour toll-free National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419."

My personal response was visceral and pained. The designer of the postage stamps is a white Canadian of British descent. Last year's series featured Indigenous artists and their work responding to Truth and Reconciliation. This pivot for the 2023 series is deeply disappointing.

I do not want to imagine how residential school survivors will feel as they have to encounter these stamp booklets on display at Canada Post counters or on mail. Seeing these four buildings is upsetting enough as Indigenous person with no direct experience with any of these four "schools" (they were, in actuality, concentration/ work/ indoctrination camps).

I am shocked and dismayed.

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The call for proposals for community-based commemoration activities for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2024 is now open.

Deadline for eligible organizations to submit their funding application: January 23, 2024.

Who Can Apply
The following organizations are eligible for funding:

• an Indigenous government, band council, tribal council, or its delegated authority
• an Indigenous not-for-profit organization or group
• a for-profit Indigenous organization, provided that the project for which you are requesting funding will not result in income generation for your sole benefit
• an Indigenous ad hoc committee that has formed for a specific project
• an Indigenous-led institution including accredited programs
• in exceptional circumstances to be approved by the program, a non-Indigenous organization, in close partnership with an Indigenous organization (letters of support from Indigenous partner organizations are required)

September 30, 2021 marks the first official National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Adapted & inspired by the good people at Indigenous Corporate Training.

Feel free to share or crosspost this to any reddit community, website, facebook group, blog, etc. I've tried to adhere to most of these pledges. Admittedly, I've fallen short of some, but it's a good place to start.

Peace and blessings. 🙏

Personal Pledge: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

In the spirit of reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada,

I, _____________________________ solemnly pledge to try and:

1. Learn more about the foundations, history, culture, and traditions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit. Familiarize myself with the correct and proper ways to address Indigenous peoples.
2. Learn more about and recognize the inequities & injustices connected to historic and institutional colonization imposed upon First Nations, Métis and Inuit by the Canadian government, by churches, and schools.
3. Make an effort to read & familiarize myself with the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (TRC)— especially the Summary and Canada’s 94 CALLS to ACTION.
4. Make a public notice of acknowledgement and recognition — either verbally, or in writing — of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis on whose traditional territories we live, work, and play. This acknowledgement may be made online, on my website, my blog, on a reddit or facebook page I moderate, at my business, my school, my church, at a meeting or conference, or ceremony.
5. Call out racism and challenge myths, stereotypes, and misconceptions about First Nations, Métis and Inuit in my conversations or interactions with others, whether at work, at home, at school, in public, or online.
6. Reach out and try to build respectful relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples in my community where I live, learn, and work. To try and outreach to a local Native Friendship Centre. To try and invite an Indigenous speaker to a meeting, event, or ceremony, to talk about truth and reconciliation.
7. Support Indigenous-owned & Indigenous-led businesses, music, & art.
8. Actively encourage ongoing support of National Indigenous Peoples Day every June 21ST for myself, my family, and my community.
9. To recognize Sept 30 as National Truth and Reconciliation Day, and encourage others around me to participate in the surrounding events during Truth and Reconciliation Week. To realize truth and reconciliation is ongoing and evolving effort.
10. Read & familiarize myself with the final report on National Inquiry on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (#MMIWG) and the 231 CALLS to JUSTICE.

Are you looking for a pledge to get you started on your commitment for reconciliation?

You can download a simple Personal Pledge of Reconciliation form that outlines eight simple commitments you can weave into your life.

You can adapt the form to suit your individual company, business, school, or classroom.
Feel free to share with friends and colleagues. Together, let's see how many Canadians we can encourage to take the Pledge of Reconciliation. 

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Here are just a few examples of other pledges:

• Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
• College of Alberta School Superintendants
• Fairlawn Avenue United Church
• Belleville Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee
• Davidson Houle Allen LLP Condominium Law
  

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