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Craft Your Own Land Acknowledgement

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Path, Reconciliation 101, Theme

Through a series of 5 video blogs, Rose Roberts and Stryker Calvez invite you to explore a few different elements that are important to understand before building your own Land Acknowledgement: worldviews, positionality, treaties and the Metis homeland. The goal is to help you to build your own awareness about the Indigenous philosophy of wahkotowin (all our relations) and how you can honour it when you engage these elements and create your own land acknowledgement. Hosted by the University of Saskatchewan, you can watch the video blogs here.

Visit IndigenARTSY.com

Art & Music, Heart, Shopping

Learn about Indigenous arts and support Indigenous artists, by visiting the IndigenARTSY website created by the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. You can shop, search by artist and learn about medicines.

Read: Life in the City of Dirty Water

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Read

Winnipeg environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller details what life was like growing up as an Indigenous youth in Winnipeg’s inner city: Life in the City of Dirty Water

“This is my story. It is the story of many Indigenous Peoples who find themselves in one of Canada’s inner cities with questions. It is the story of how we became dispossessed and how we rise.”

Read for Reconciliation: Medicine Wheel Education

Heart, Kids/Family, Read

If you are looking for resources for reconciliation to support youth, check out Medicine Wheel Education. They publish culturally authentic Indigenous books, resources and tools specialized for moral and cultural education for children. Titles include Beyond the Orange Shirt Story and Drum for the Heart.

Indigenous Cloud

Heart, Listen, Support

Check out Indigenous Cloud, an online platform created to preserve and distribute Indigenous Music.

Learn more about streaming service in this CBC story: Sask. music producer on a mission to preserve Indigenous music through streaming website, app

Watch: Indigenous Cities

Art & Music, Heart, Watch

Experience stories from the cities you thought you knew, with Indigenous Cities, an audio storytelling experience, from Indigenous artists living in the cities known as Vancouver, Saskatoon, and Ottawa

Watch: Angry Inuk

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Watch

Angry Inuk is an Indigenous feature-length documentary film written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that shows the Inuit seal hunt, as the hunt is a vital means for Inuit peoples to sustain themselves and looks at those people standing in opposition.

Learn with Future Ancestors Services

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Participate

Future Ancestors Services Inc. offers capacity building and skills training that can contribute to holistic and sustainable change. These trainings can advance knowledge on the individual’s role in addressing systemic issues to become a part of building a sustainable future that our next generations will inherit.

Listen: Still Here Still Healing

Heart, Listen, Residential Schools

Still Here Still Healing, is a podcast that shares stories from residential school survivors and discussions with Indigenous youth about topics such as culture, language, identity, and community. Tune in to advance your awareness to the lasting impacts of residential schools and ongoing impacts of colonialization.

Paths to Explore

Craft Your Own Land Acknowledgement

Visit IndigenARTSY.com

Read: Life in the City of Dirty Water

Read for Reconciliation: Medicine Wheel Education

Indigenous Cloud

Watch: Indigenous Cities

Watch: Angry Inuk

Learn with Future Ancestors Services

Listen: Still Here Still Healing

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