Actions and Events
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
September 30th: Reflecting in Truth Toward Reconciliation
Andrea Menard (she / they / ᐑᔭ wîya), Lead Educational Developer for Indigenizing Curricula and Pedagogies, takes us through the power and importance of recognizing September 30th as both the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as well as Orange Shirt Day, why it matters, and how we move, and reflect, in truth toward reconciliation.
Highway of Tears
Since the late 1960s, at least eighteen young women have disappeared or been found murdered along the 724-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 in northern British Columbia. None of these cold cases were ever solved until 2012, when a special RCMP investigation was able to link DNA from one of the murder victims to deceased US criminal Bobby Jack Fowler; but this single answer has done little to heal the wounds of Indigenous communities who have seen dozens of their young women vanish along the "Highway of Tears". Matt Smiley's hard-hitting documentary not only movingly relates to the personal stories of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, but investigates how the legacy of systemic racism contributed to their tragic fates — and how Indigenous leaders are striving to overcome the endemic today.
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