Beyond NDTR: ReconciliACTion

Join us March 19, 2024

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

ReconciliACTION: honouring the land

Atlohsa and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives have partnered to invite you to learn and unlearn with us through our year-long speaker series entitled ReconciliACTION: Speaker Series offered at Wampum Learning Lodge at London, Ontario. March 19, join us for ReconciliACTION: Honouring the Land from 10am-4pm at the Wampum Learning Lodge for a day of connecting and reconnecting to land, 

We invite you to learn with us as we journey together towards radical truth telling and self-reflection to reconcile Canada’s ongoing settler colonialism with the loving future we envision for our communities. All are welcome.

Schedule:
Time Events
10:00 a.m. Opening with Warrior Womyn
10:15 a.m. Sayzee opening teachings
11:00 a.m. Water Walk
12:00 p.m Lunch
1:00 p.m. Jan Ninham: Seed songs and dance
2:00 p.m. Climate Change Cafe
3:00 p.m. Wrap Up/Clean Up/Circle

Planning to attend in-person? Register here

We wore our orange shirts, now what?

Now that we’ve observed the very first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and people are starting to learn truths about Indian Residential Schools and the colonization of Canada, we must continue to keep these truths at the forefront of our minds, and strive to make space for Indigenous voices and perspectives across the institution year-round.

It is crucial that we stay engaged in Reconciliation work at Western University, and interrogate the systems and structures that perpetuate settler-colonialism within this institution. 

On September 22, 2021, Western’s Indigenous Learning Circle, Biindigen, hosted a session on ReconciliACTion, encouraging participants to reflect critically upon their roles and responsibilities in Reconciliation. We drew key themes from this  Padlet activity, to create an infographic.

Take a look below and see what you can get started on right away. Below the infographic you will find a link to TRC Report reading sessions hosted by the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Theatre Studies at Western and as well as other resource, book, podcast and video recommendations.

TRC INFOGRAPHIC

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TRC Report Cover

 

The TRC Report
The postdoctoral fellows at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts in collaboration with the Theatre Studies at Western program invite you to join us in a durational reading of the executive summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report ( TRC ), part of an initiative by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Read more here. 

Register here. 

 

  

Book Cover: Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience

 

Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience: Confronting Cultural & Ecological Crisis

This recently published book by Maori scholar Lewis Williams, Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and Geography at Western "argues that there is a need to develop greater Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes and adversity." 

Download the book here.

 

 

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