Trevor Snider: Commemorating a Reconciliation Ally
We first met Trevor, Supervisor of Donations Processing for Covenant House Vancouver, when he attended one of our Training Weeks. Trevor took the...
Allyship
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Why We Shouldn’t Say 'Bury the Hatchet'
Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its report and 94 Calls to Action, we have seen significant progress for Canada and...
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How Can You Politely Correct Someone Without Causing Guilt or Reaction?
Maybe you have recently taken one of our courses surrounding Indigenous Awareness and learned new facts about the history of Indigenous Peoples of...
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10 Things You Can Do: Kamloops Indian Residential School
Trigger Warning: This article includes information about Residential School experiences In May 2021, the remains of 215 young Indigenous children...
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Suggestions for Helping Vulnerable and Remote Indigenous Communities
Amidst all the dire news about the trajectory of global and local COVID-19 case numbers and mortality, hoarding of necessities, and fights in grocery...
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Indigenous Language Immersion
Indigenous languages the world over are in jeopardy. So much so that the United Nations declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages...
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Why Is It Important to Protect & Revitalize Indigenous Languages?
Of the most spoken languages in the world, English is third after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. But English is the most commonly spoken second...
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Let’s Not Make Reconciliation a Political Football
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. George Orwell, 1984
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What Reconciliation Is and What It Is Not
For a very long time, mainstream Canadians were unaware of the horrors and conditions that 150,000 Indigenous children endured in the Indian...
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A Brief Definition of Decolonization and Indigenization
Decolonization Decolonization once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognized as a long-term...