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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.

Browse GoodMinds for your next book

Head, Read, Shopping

GoodMinds.com a First Nations family-owned business focusing on First Nations, Metis and Inuit authorship and education. Browse through their amazing collection of Indigenous books.

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: Lessons Learned

Read, Residential Schools, Spirit

Learn more about the residential school experience. Read ‘Lessons Learned’, a report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which shares experiences of residential school survivors and shapes future work towards truth-telling, reconciliation, and healing.

Listen: Radical Narrative

Head, Listen

Check out Radical Narratives – stimulating and insightful conversations, with episodes like Treaty 6ix Clothing with Tesler Mosquito, and The Social Contexts & Personal Life of Ashley Callingbull

Read: An Introductory Guide To Understanding Indigenous Rights

Head, Read, True History

National accounting and tax firm MNP has released An Introductory Guide To Understanding Indigenous Rights. The book looks at Indigenous and Treaty Rights and Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Proceeds the book are being set aside within MNP’s Communities Forward community investment fund for the benefit of grassroots First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth initiatives.

ohpahotân I oohpaahotaan

Head, Read, Safe Spaces

The University of Saskatchewan has shared their Indigenous Strategy online. ohpahotân I oohpaahotaan let’s fly up together, challenges all of us to engage in the difficult work of resetting relationships.

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.

Paths to Explore

Craft Your Own Land Acknowledgement

Browse GoodMinds for your next book

Visit IndigenARTSY.com

Read: Lessons Learned

Listen: Radical Narrative

Read: An Introductory Guide To Understanding Indigenous Rights

ohpahotân I oohpaahotaan

Read: Life in the City of Dirty Water

Read for Reconciliation: Medicine Wheel Education

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