Youth Navigate the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action
March 5th, 2019This project comprises of two workshops that students would participate in to gain a better understanding of the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action. The workshops were designed by Raymond Wilson, who is a member of the Laichwitach Nation and is an Indigenous educator. The first workshop is a simulation of students portraying NGOs, giving them an opportunity to take a new perspective to the TRC Calls to Action and to practice their communication skills to represent the position they are enacting. The second workshop allows student participants to explore various ideas and meaning of “reconciliation,” and to begin defining it for themselves.
Project Update
The students who took part in the workshops on the residential school system left with a better understanding of the actual social responsibility our government has to the indigenous population. It also served to engage the students actively in conversations that will hopefully lead to future projects and greater insight on this important subject.
