Digital Display: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Also known as Orange Shirt Day, this day invites us to learn about and grieve the ongoing harm caused by the residential school system in Canada. The library has created a digital display below if you would like to learn more.

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the campus community is also holding a number of events, including beading drop-in sessions and a film screening.

Over the week, there will be drop-in opportunities to bead an Orange Heart pin across campus: 

Mitchell Gallery: Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 12 - 2pm

MacEwan Library: Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 12 - 2pm

Robbins Building (2nd Floor): Wednesday, Sept 28 from 10-2

Building 5 (2nd Floor): Thursday, Sept. 29 from 9-11am

These pins are symbols to mark the impacts of residential schools on Indigenous peoples in Canada. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is also known as Orange Shirt Day, September 30. The symbolism of the orange shirt comes from the story of Phyllis (Jack) Webstad, a Northern Secwépemc woman from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation. Phyllis was one of more than 150,000 Indigenous children forced to attend residential school between the 1870s-1990s.  Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/ndtrevents

Additionally, you can join us in the Faculty of Nursing's maskwa iyinikwew wâwkamik/Bear Healing Lodge for a lunchtime film and discussion with tea and bannock. The film is called The Unforgotten. Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/bhlfilm 

September 30, 2022 Kule Theatre, Room 9-323, Robbins Health Learning Centre

Tea, Bannock and Soup: 11:45 a.m.

Film Screening (35 min): 12 p.m.

Discussion/Sharing Circle: 12:45 p.m.

 

To Read:

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Interim Report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 1; Origins to 1939 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 2; 1939 to 2000 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada's Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Canada's Residential Schools: Reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Residential Schools and Indigenous Peoples: From Genocide via Education to the Possibilities for Processes of Truth, Restitution, Reconciliation, and Reclamation by Stephen James Minton

Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School by Chris Benjamin

Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action: Teach for Canada by Thomsen D’Hont, Angela Nuliayok Rudolph, and Dawn Tremblay

Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Calls to Action by Aimée Craft and Paulette Regan

Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie 

Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese

One Story, One Song by Richard Wagamese

The Red Files by Lisa Bird-Wilson

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Augie Merasty

Speaking Our Truths: A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith

Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir by Theodore Fontaine

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

 

To Watch:

Indian Horse

NFB Residential School Films

Residential Schools: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (Educator's Package)

Clouds of Autumn

The Children

The Impact of Colonialism in Canada