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Body, Cultural Understandings, Participate

Be an ally and stand up against racial injustice. Find an anti-racism rally, walk, event or other gathering in your community and attend. Bring a friend or family member.

Attend a cultural event

As part of your reconciliation journey, learn the proper protocols and attend a cultural event in your community that is open to the public. Powwows are often open to the public and are a beautiful and moving ceremony.

Attend a ceremony

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As part of your reconciliation journey, learn the proper protocols and attend a ceremony in your community that is open to the public.

Learn to say hello

Body, Language, Participate

Learn to say hello and thank you in an Indigenous language. And if this feels like just a first step, consider a language class, app, or YouTube video to continue your learning.

Share your knowledge

Body, Participate, This Land

Share what you are learning. Initiate a conversation with a friend about the importance of the fur trade

Learn more about the fur trade

Body, Participate, True History

Visit a museum in person or virtually to learn more about the fur trade.

Hear from Indigenous business leaders

Body, Business, Listen, Participate

Listen to podcast from Indigenous business leaders. Listen to You & 92 as a place to start, the podcast features Indigenous business leaders sharing their stories.

Visit Historic Sites

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Go to a Saskatchewan Historic Site to learn about early settler, Indigenous relations, locations include Fort Walsh, Batoche, Fort Carleton

Create a land acknowledgement

Body, Participate, This Land

Integrate land acknowledgments into your meetings and events. Take time to create an acknowledgement that is meaningful to you and your organization.

Discover your Treaty Territory

Body, Participate, This Land

Research the Treaty territory where you live or where you are visiting. Learn who signed or didn’t sign the Treaty.

Create a reconciliation group

Find or create a support group of people who are similarly engaged in this journey–from informal coffee chats to monthly meetings!

Create personal calls to action

Make a list of personal calls to action that move you forward on your journey of Truth and Reconciliation. Add goals and deadlines, and share your plans with friends or family to hold each other accountable.

Attend Truth and Reconciliation education events

Attend Truth and Reconciliation education events and programs in your city. The local Reconciliation Circle (including Reconciliation Regina, Saskatoon, Yorkton, or Nipawin) are a great resource to use.

Get comfortable with difficult language

Body, Language, Participate

The words we use when talking about reconciliation is important, get comfortable and normalize using the language that represents the true history of Canada like colonization, settlers, and genocide.

Attend Indigenous Movements

Attend Indigenous movements aimed at decolonization in your city, look at joining protests, walks, and other events.

Read work by Ruth King

Body, Participate, Read, Safe Spaces

“Racism is a heart disease,” writes Ruth King, “and it’s curable.” Explore racism and how to fight it through the work of Ruth King’s books and articles.

Attend an anti-racism workshop

Grow your knowledge by attending a workshop on anti-racism. Learn what it means to be anti-racist and pass that knowledge on.

Support Economic Development

Body, Business, Participate, Social Media

Support Indigenous Economic Development by supporting Indigenous owned businesses, share good news business stories on social media, and fighting against injustice and racism.

Hire Indigenous people to your workplace

Body, Business, Participate

Advocate for the hiring of Indigenous people for positions at your workplace. Recognize that a diversity of people leads to a diversity of ideas and a stronger work environment.

Develop reconciliation strategies for business

Body, Business, Participate

Play a role in in developing and incorporating reconciliation strategies for business or in your workplace.

Take Trainings on Modern Treaties

Head, Participate, This Land

Further your knowledge by taking one of the trainings on modern Treaties offered by the Land Claims Coalition.

Challenge leaders to honour Treaty

Head, Participate

Challenge politicians and leaders in your area to honour the spirit and intent of both historical and modern treaties.

Understand political Treaty representatives

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Understand political Treaty representatives in your area, support the work of the Treaty Commissioner of Saskatchewan.

Support Indigenous People in politics

Head, Participate, Politics & Leaders

Learn more about who is running in federal, provincial, or municipal elections and support/vote for Indigenous People to be in politics. If there isn’t anyone Indigenous running, support those who support reconciliation.

Fight for justice

Fight for justice arising from Indigenous guidance, by walking alongside Indigenous people at rallies. Consider joining or supporting a branch of Showing Up for Racial Justice.

Insist on teaching about Indigenous people and cultures

Encourage and insist on teaching about Indigenous people and cultures in schools. In Saskatchewan we have mandatory Treaty education, but encourage learning beyond this.

Value Indigenous knowledge

Value Indigenous knowledge and scholarship. Create space to hear Indigenous voices in your workplace, organization, or community.

Decolonization and Reconciliation

Head, Participate, Read

Decolonization is every Canadian’s responsibility. As Canadians, we can all take part in building a genuine decolonization movement. This movement would respect the land on which we are all living and the people to whom it inherently belongs. Learn more in Indigenization Guide: Decolonization and Reconciliation.

Understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation

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Understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation of Indigenous Culture. Simon Fraser University created a guidebook that unpacks these important questions about cultural appropriation.

Support Indigenous artists

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Support Indigenous artists – buy beaded earrings or find a new painting or sculpture. You could pick up something for yourself or pick up something for a friend. Find something traditional or go modern. There are so many incredible artists out there, find what you love and support them.

Donate to support Indigenous language preservation

Body, Language, Participate, Support

Consider donating to support Indigenous language preservation in Canada as a way to contribute to these languages and preservation of Indigenous culture. Consider the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, Indigenous languages revitalization programs at universities, cultural centres, Indigenous organizations, grassroots initiatives cultural heritage museums and more.

Canada’s Indigenous Languages Act

Head, Language, Participate, Read

Familiarize yourself with Canada’s Indigenous Languages Act, which recognizes the importance of Indigenous languages and commits to supporting their revitalization, preservation, and promotion. Share your learnings with a friend or family member.

Share language revitalization on social media

Body, Language, Participate, Social Media

Change up your Facebook feed or TikTok for you page by liking and following accounts that share language revitalization. You show that these accounts are important and you can learn something – win-win.

Learn about place names

Body, Participate, Politics & Leaders, Spirit, Support

Research Indigenous place names in your community and learn about the people or trailblazers that they are named in honour of. Make a social media post about what you learn/uncover and share.

Create opportunities to honour trailblazers

Body, Current Events, Participate, Spirit

Indigenous Trailblazers who helped us to get to where we are today. Create opportunities to learn about Indigenous trailblazers in your systems and community and honour them.

Learn on the Land

Learn about Indigenous Peoples and the land by visiting a local Indigenous museum, gallery or heritage site. Wanuskewin Heritage Park near Saskatoon is a great place to start.

Learn from Survivors

Body, Listen, Participate, Residential Schools

Learn about life before, during, and after residential schools from Survivors. Attended a presentation online or in your community. Check with location reconciliation groups, or set one up for your organization by contacting the Office of the Treaty Commissioners’ speakers bureau.

Visit monuments in your community

Body, Participate, Residential Schools

Visit a monument, sculpture or other art piece created in honour of residential school Survivors in your community. Take a moment to reflect on the experiences of those survivors.

Attend Events

Go to an Indigenous event in your community. Ask event organizers if non-Indigenous peoples are welcome and if there are specific protocols you need to be aware of in order to attend.

Walk for Reconciliation

Participate in, or create, a Walk for Reconciliation in your community. Use the Reconciliation Saskatoon Walk for Reconciliation as an example, watch Building the “Rock Your Roots: Walk for Reconciliation”

Participate in events for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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Engage in relationship building as part of your reconciliation journey. Consider organizing or participating in activities for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This Guide & Toolkit from the Calgary Foundation gives lots of ideas on how to start.

Modern Treaties and Self-Governing Agreements

Body, Current Events, Participate, Politics & Leaders

Learn more about modern treaties and self-governing agreements in Canada. What is close to you? Whitecap Dakota Nation is an example of a community with a plan for self governance. Where else?

Learn about Duty to Consult in your Area