1. Wear an orange shirt on September 30 to honour survivors of residential schools and those who never returned home.
Listen to the story behind Orange Shirt Day from Phyllis (Jack) WebstadThe Woodland Cultural Centre has some excellent Orange Shirt Day 2021 resources.
2. Reconciliation: A Starting Point / Indigenous People App
Download the app on your phone for access to information and resources on Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
3. Residential School Map
Find out if there was a residential school in your area or where the closest one is located by using the CBC Beyond94 Residential School Map.
4. Residential School Survivor Stories
This is a video collection of survivor stories. You might consider watching these individually or as a team to continue understanding and healing. Follow-up with a discussion of what you heard.
5. Let the Truth Be Told
This is a curriculum resource designed to help with humanizing and decolonizing education.
6. Review – Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
In 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada produced 94 Calls to Action. If you have never read them we encourage you to read this document.
You can access further resources at www.trc.ca.
7. Review – United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The official resolution was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 2007
8. Becoming an Ally Resources
Building Trust Before Truth: How Non-Indigenous Canadians Become Allies
9. Visit a local Indigenous organization, Friendship Centre, community group or museum.
If invited or open to the public, attend local Indigenous cultural events taking place in your community.
10. Learn the land acknowledgment in your region or develop one of your own in consultation with local Indigenous communities.
Be sure to carefully consider your relationship to the land that you live on and the traditional territories of the Indigenous Peoples who were there for thousands of years before colonization.
