#Canada - 93 areas of interest found at site of former Saskatchewan residential school

>#SASKATOON — A chief in #Saskatchewan says her heart is broken after ground-penetrating radar located 93 areas of interest at the site of a former residential school. https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/08/29/93-areas-of-interest-found-at-site-of-former-saskatchewan-residential-school/ #residentialschools #indigenous #everychildmatters #firstnations #truthandreconciliation #indigenouslivesmatter #nativeamerican

@benrowswell Hmm. Personally, I find that inscription pretty ironic, even offensive. Wasn’t it someone’s “love of God” that created this mess?

It’s good that there’s a memorial, but I’d lose the first three lines.

Hashtags for reaching, not preaching: #ResidentialSchools #TruthAndReconciliation #SurvivorStories #RespectIndigenousLives

#StolenChildren is a #CrimeAgainstHumanity.

It needs to be stopped in #Ukraine now, with the responsible #Russians prosecuted.

But #TruthAndReconciliation needs to be pursued in other places where the crime has been perpetrated in the past; such as the USA, Canada, and Australia. 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations

#Histodons

Happy #Canada Day! #history #treaties #Landback #truthandreconciliation

My work is visiting the site of a former residential school today. June is National Indigenous Heritage Month in Canada. If you have the capacity, consider a donation to support survivors of this (on-going) genocide. www.irsss.ca #residentialschool #Indigenous #Canada #genocide #truthandreconciliation

Today's Thing of Beauty: #Shoe #Brantford #MohawkInstitute #ResidentialSchool #Unburied #SaveTheEvidence #Ontario #Canada #indigenous #TruthAndReconciliation #justice #Children #Remember #injustice #photography Photo by me

How can survivors of mass violence rebuild their lives? Survivors in Timor-Leste moving from "restorative" to reparative justice #HumanRights #TruthAndReconciliation https://reconciliationtim.ca/timor/repairing-justice-in-timor-leste/

Imperial Oil’s latest spill of toxic tailings water at the Kearl mine north of Fort McMurray is an outrageous breach of trust. The company’s failure to inform neighbouring First Nations about the spill speaks volumes about the disregard oilsands companies have shown Indigenous people living downstream. #truthandreconciliation #Landback #extinctionrebellion

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/03/11/opinion/heads-roll-alberta-spill-imperial-oil

Damn but @jullyblack made me proud to be a #Canadian !!! Our home ON Native Land indeed... I'll be singing it this way from now on as well...

(And while we're at it... Not all Canadians are Christian - shocking, I know - so let's drop "God keep our Land" already... Thank you for coming to my TED Talk...)

https://youtu.be/N9OFQUXpr8g

#truthandreconciliation #TruthTHENReconciliation #representationmatters #Indiginous

@John Noel Pearson was [again] *magnificent* in tonight's ABC 730 interview with Sarah. We bloody other Strayans had better do the right damn thing in this referendum. If not, our craven racism & despicable historical + contemporary injustices will be laid bare. If we do sink that low, i hope other countries will treat us as pariahs, for we'd deserve no better.

#auspol #TheVoice #TruthAndReconciliation

When are we finally going to hold #TruthAndReconciliation hearings in #AmeriK3a similar to those of #Apartheid #SouthAfrica?

Residential school system recognized as genocide in Canada’s House of Commons: A harbinger of change
#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #Politics #Genocide #TruthAndReconciliation #UNGenocideConvention #IndianResidentialSchool
https://the-14.com/residential-school-system-recognized-as-genocide-in-canadas-house-of-commons-a-harbinger-of-change/

Ten institutions hold about half of the Native American remains that have not been returned to tribes. These include old and prestigious museums with collections taken from ancestral lands not long after the U.S. government forcibly removed Native Americans from them.

#Indigenous #TruthAndReconciliation

https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains

It's time for another #WinonaLaDuke quote! Seriously, if you haven't read #ToBeAWaterProtector yet but you want to know more about #EcoJustice and the #WaterProtector movement, this is a GREAT book to start with.

"The psychosis of Indian hating is one born of the self-loathing of your role in destroying another person, theft and destruction of a people. That's what people have in the north [in the context of this chapter, she's specifically talking northern Michigan, but I feel this also applies to other places like my country of Canada]. They know that what has happened to Native people is wrong, but it's uncomfortable to deal with what justice looks like, or perhaps to come to terms that we all drink the same water, so the Crazy Indian hating behavior continues. That's the Deep North."

@bookstodon #bookstodon #IndigenousStories #IndigenousAuthors #Resistance #LandBack #TruthAndReconciliation #Restitution

Apartheid-era minister #AdriaanVlok died today. He famously went about washing black people’s feet in apology for his crimes. This is the text of a talk I gave in 2014 on why I would not let him wash mine. The talk was part of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's exploration of the idea of radical reconciliation. I was perhaps more hopeful back then.

https://tomolefe.medium.com/reconcilation-ideology-or-why-i-will-not-let-adriaan-vlok-wash-my-feet-1bcd2fba8f5b

#TruthAndReconciliation #Apartheid #PostApartheid #SouthAfrica #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GrossHumanRightsAbuses

I just finished a thought-provoking and disturbing podcast series from CBC hosted by Angela Sterritt https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1341-landback#episodes

This deals directly with the meaning of "landback" and reconciliation with Indigenous communities in Canada. I also learned about the tension between elected band council leadership and the traditional hereditary chief leadership model.

No easy answers here, but essential to listen with humility and respect. #truthandreconciliation

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1341-landback#episodes

As many celebrate Christmas with family, imagine the heartache and pain of many Ukrainians dealing with their stolen and lost children.

It is with some irony I sense the worldwide outrage with this as I pen this from Canada, where the Canadian government endorsed a very similar program impacting Indigenous communities, known as the 60s Scoop.

History can have a nasty bite when we are myopic in our view. #Ukraine #Indigenous #60sScoop #truthandreconciliation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/24/ukraine-stolen-children-maria-lvova-belova/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38a941d%2F63a82d48ef9bf67b233590b6%2F596995e09bbc0f6d71c4d082%2F8%2F53%2F63a82d48ef9bf67b233590b6&wp_cu=8daf6a8b7807846a96c7c2a5a3628562%7C51B1D126349B1086E0530100007FD661

In my normally #Republican owned home-front in #Sarasota, FL Ron DeSantis gets no slack.

#DeSantis wants people held accountable on #COVID in #Florida. You first, #governor

In other words, #DeSantis is seeking the creation of a #TruthandReconciliation #Commission, of sorts, to hold responsible those who have supposedly failed to fully protect Florida against a #virus that’s #killed #morethan83,000 in this state since #early2020.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/editorials/2022/12/21/gov-desantis-should-look-in-the-mirror-for-accountability-on-covid/69742665007/

Excellent podcast interview from The Economist with President Zelensky. He talked about the importance of Ukrainians getting their land back. Without the land, there are no people. He went on to talk about the children who had been abducted and taken from Ukraine.

Everyone seems to agree with what was said.

In Canada, we have heard this before. From Indigenous People. However, we seem less receptive. #truthandreconciliation #landback #UNDRIP #colonization

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2022/12/22/i-want-to-swim-i-want-to-see-the-sea-in-crimea-i-love-the-sea-in-kherson-a-return-visit-with-zelensky

Last #January6thCommittee observation:

Following political violence and episodes of oppression, #TruthAndReconciliation commissions are sometimes used to effect a political transition.

#TRC sometimes do and sometimes don't enact #justice in the form of criminal prosecution, but they can be impt for collecting and assembling informed, fact-based record of events. They are first and foremost CLARIFYING exercises.

THAT'S the importance of the testimony.

#democracy
#TransitionalJustice
#Trump