PROCLAIMING OUR ROOTS is a project “aimed at honoring the histories, realities, stories and experiences of people who are of African diasporic and Indigenous ancestry, and who reside on Turtle Island.”
THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY PROGRAM (BIS) of Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR), a national, Indigenous, youth-led organization, will take place in Toronto from the last week of March to the first week of May 2025.
McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg will be hosting the launch for the second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style. The event will also be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING adorn the sides of buses in Brandon, Dauphin, Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, and Winnipeg as part of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc.’s multi-media “Healthy Living Campaign”.
VANIER SCHOLAR JAMEY JESPERSON, A UVIC PHD CANDIDATE IN HISTORY AND CSPT, “specializes in trans histories of Indigenous and colonial North America, with a regional focus on the Pacific coast.”
NINETY MINUTES NORTHWEST OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA AT BOBCAYGEON, “a group of Settlers living in the Kawarthas on Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe Territory … are learning about Truth & Reconciliation and have a sincere desire to make some positive contributions to promote awareness to other settlers in our community.”
UBC LAW GRAD AND AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST DUNCAN MCCUE wrote a textbook “that teaches aspiring journalists how to build respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities when researching and sharing their stories.”
AS THE NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION on September 30 approaches, readers may remind themselves of the TRC’s Calls to Action and the unfinished work of its Missing Children and Unmarked Burials Project.
CANADIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS SPEAK AND ACT in support of Indigenous communities and families continuing the work of finding and honouring missing children of residential schools, emphasizing the need for Indigenous-led work guided by Indigenous cultural protocols.
THE INDEPENDENT SPECIAL INTERLOCUTOR will work with Survivors and Indigenous communities and families to make recommendations for respectful and culturally appropriate treatment of unmarked graves and burial sites of children at former Indian Residential Schools and associated institutions. The Honourable Chief Justice Marchand of the BCCA created a footnote reference to its 2023 interim report when he devoted six paragraphs of the 2024 reasons for judgment to a description of residential school denialism.