{"id":54517,"date":"2023-09-29T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=54517"},"modified":"2023-09-29T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:49:14","slug":"how-to-support-on-truth-and-reconciliation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/54517\/how-to-support-on-truth-and-reconciliation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards Justice and Healing: What to Read, Listen to and Support on Truth and Reconciliation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[Content warning: While some of the synopses below celebrate Indigenous identities, sovereignty and joy,&nbsp; many mention violence towards Indigenous peoples.]&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Towards justice and healing, the staff at Greenpeace have been reading, listening to, and supporting Indigenous perspectives in our desire to shift culture. Here\u2019s a list of our recommendations, curated for your own journeys ahead.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Reparation. Restoration. Reconciliation. We often forget that <em>action<\/em> holds the truth behind these words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>As a settler organization, extracting the remnants of colonial legacy from our identity is a process of accountability. Decolonizing our minds and methods may feel unfamiliar &#8211; wearing away at our indoctrination until we are hardly recognizable. But the pains of growth only mean we\u2019re heading in the right direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>We still have a long way to go. We cannot rebuild until we dismantle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Education and exposure have become great tools in deepening our understanding of the world around us, naming our privileges and the harms we cause in ignorance. We are each responsible for the future\u2019s unfolding. As we write a way forward, we must resist comfort and reject the status quo.<\/p>\n\n<p>As an environmental justice organization, Indigenous leadership must be at the forefront and centre of the journey. We are in the midst of an environmental crisis caused by colonialism and capitalism driven by Indigenous dispossession. Our livelihoods depend on Indigenous environmental governance, sovereignty, and the value of Indigenous wisdom and knowledge systems. If we only listen, we can find truths untold and often erased.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Truth and Reconciliation are commitments lasting far longer than 24 hours and made visible by more than an orange shirt. This year marks the third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/campaigns\/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html\">National Day of Truth &amp; Reconciliation in Canada<\/a>. It is a point of reflection on our journey of decolonization and a call to keep going. <strong>Greenpeace Canada invites you to join us in learning new ways of care and unlearning old ways of harm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Towards justice and healing, the staff at Greenpeace have been reading, listening to, and supporting Indigenous perspectives in our desire to shift culture. <strong>Here\u2019s a list of our recommendations, curated for your own journeys ahead.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigenous Authorship<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cBooks are a form of political action.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>Books are knowledge.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>Books are reflection.<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em><strong><em>Books change your mind.<\/em><\/strong><em>\u201d<\/em> &#8211; Toni Morrison<\/p>\n\n<p><em>*all Audiobook options are available for free through the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/libbyapp.com\/interview\/welcome#doYouHaveACard\"><em>Libby App<\/em><\/a><em> (only requirement is a library card, which is also free)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigenousrelationsacademy.com\/products\/21-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-indian-act\">21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph<\/a> (available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Everything we\u2019ve been told about Canadian history is a lie. What we call \u201cCanada\u201d was born out of colonial imperialism and is upheld today through White supremacy. In 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, Bob Joseph reveals untold truths about a history often altered in typical school curriculums. In less than 150 pages, Joseph exposes the Indian Act as a critical tool in the erasure of Indigenous Peoples in Canada with the repercussions felt to this day. Our future relies on an understanding of the past and justice cannot be served without repair. Complete with collaborative activities and a discussion guide, this book is essential reading for settlers seeking to make reconciliation with Indigenous peoples a reality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michellegood.ca\/published-works.htm\">Five Little Indians by Michelle Good<\/a> (available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The day of Truth &amp; Reconciliation is held in mourning of lives taken by residential school, holds space for grieving families, and honours the resilience of traumatized communities. <em>Five Little Indians<\/em> follows the journey of 5 residential school survivors as they dare to exist in \u201ca world that doesn\u2019t want them.\u201d We revere this novel and the deep truths it exposes on this day, and everyday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unsettlingcanada.com\/\">Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel <\/a>(available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Art Manuel\u2019s foundational book provides a rich history of Indigenous resistance in Canada, especially over the past forty years, from the<a href=\"https:\/\/breachmedia.ca\/how-the-constitution-express-transformed-canada\/\"> Constitution Express<\/a> to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emafilms.com\/en\/film\/beans\/\"> Oka Crisis<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/social-justice\/2013\/03\/06\/dancing-the-world-into-being-a-conversation-with-idle-no-more-leanne-simpson\"> Idle no More<\/a>. Since the very inception of the colonial concept known as Canada, successive governments have been trying to separate Indigenous people from their land to facilitate white settlement and resource extraction. And from the very beginning, Indigenous people have fought back. For a long time, they were up against some of the most powerful governments and corporations in the world completely alone. But as more and more people wake up to the relationship between Indigenous dispossession and excessive extraction as the primary driver of the climate crisis, the counterforce to colonial capitalism grows. To truly address this crisis, we must tip the balance of power back towards the original Indigenous stewards of this land, who understand deeply how to live in reciprocal relation with it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/memoiredencrier.com\/je-suis-une-maudite-sauvagesse-eukuan-nin-matshi-manitu-innushkueu\/\">Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse by An Antane Kapesh (FR &amp; Innu-aimun)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>In this poignant book, An Antane Kapesh depicts from first-hand testimony the realities of White settler-colonialism and the impacts on Innu communities, lands, cultures, language and traditions.&nbsp;The text is presented in Innu-aimun (left pages) and in French (right pages).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lactualite.com\/culture\/ce-qui-se-cache-derriere-les-visages-de-la-terre\/\">Les visages de la terre by Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (FR)<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>In this collection of poems, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui explores the spirituality of the Wendat through his personal life.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ecosociete.org\/livres\/decoloniser-le-canada\">D\u00e9coloniser le Canada by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chef Ron Derrickson (FR)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>This book is a call to resistance. In it, Arthur Manuel retraces decades of Indigenous activism, inherited from their father George Manuel, and depicts the political, economic and social struggles as well as resistance movements striving for the recognition of Indigenous rights, and the decolonization of the Canadian state.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leannesimpson.ca\/book\/as-we-have-always-done\">As We Have Always Done<\/a> by Leanne Simpson (available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>As We Have Always Done offers the gift of an Indigenous perspective of what a true \u201cnation-to-nation\u201d relationship would look like in Canada\u2014not a surface-level acknowledgment of Indigenous existence, but a deep commitment to dismantling the colonial structures that continue to oppress Indigenous peoples to this day. (Structures like the extractive projects being<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CiqrIYev037\/\"> forced through unceded Indigenous land<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/05\/10\/1098014745\/nearly-half-the-women-in-canadas-federal-prisons-are-indigenous#:~:text=JACOBS%3A%20Less%20than%205%25%20of,Canada%27s%20correctional%20investigator%20Ivan%20Zinger.\"> disproportionate representation of Indigenous women in federal prisons<\/a>, and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/foster-care-is-modern-day-residential-school-1.6054223\">modern-day residential school system<\/a>\u201d of foster care that is separating Indigenous children from their communities.) Leanne Simpson writes: \u201cI am not interested in inclusion. I am not interested in reconciling. I\u2019m interested in unapologetic place-based nationhoods using Indigenous practices and operating in an ethical and principled way from an intact land base. This is the base from which we can develop a \u2018new relationship\u2019 with the Canadian state.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/houseofanansi.com\/products\/seven-fallen-feathers\">Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga<\/a> (available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201cSeven Fallen Feathers\u201d is the carefully reported story of seven Indigenous high school students who died in Thunder Bay between 2000 and 2011. Critically, journalist Tanya Talaga connects the seven deaths to Canada\u2019s colonial history, which extends to the present day\u2014today, right now, Indigenous children are forced to move away from home to live in communities that are alienating, racist, and unsuited to meet their culturally specific needs. Tanya Talaga definitively rejects the idea that these deaths were mere \u201caccidents\u201d: they were, in fact, the tragic result of a careless, colonial system that does not value Indigenous lives as much as settler lives. Everyone in Canada must read this book, get angry, and demand change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/milkweed.org\/book\/braiding-sweetgrass\">Braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer <\/a>(available as Audiobook)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Can you imagine a relationship to the land that\u2019s not purely and fundamentally extractive?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion &#8212; until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a WHO, but an IT, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying IT makes a living land into &#8220;natural resources.&#8221; If a maple is an IT, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a HER, we think twice.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Robin Kimmerer<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com\/\">Life in the city of dirty water by Clayton Thomas-Muller<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>In a \u201cmemoir of healing\u201d both written and <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com\/#doc\">visual,<\/a> Thomas-Muller uses the tradition of Indigenous storytelling to share a personal account of the realities of abuse, intergenerational trauma and racism in Canadian cities. Various life events ultimately led him to reconnect with his heritage and find empowerment as a frontline Indigenous land defender and social justice organizer in his community. Further education can be found through his <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinthecityofdirtywater.com\/#teaching\">teaching tools<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/biblioottawalibrary.ca\/en\/blogs\/indigenous-author-spotlight-naomi-fontaine\">Shuni by Naomi Fontaine (FR)&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><em>Shuni<\/em> &#8211; how one says the name Julie in Innu-aimun, is written as a letter, sharing stories and experience in close and&nbsp; personal prose. Naomi writes a letter to her friend and tells her the stories of her people, the precious moments she shared with her community, vividly depicting her traditions and culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Interested in purchasing a book from this list? Check out an <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secondstorypress.ca\/wavemaker\/2020\/6\/12\/black-and-indigenous-owned-bookstores-in-canada-and-the-usa\"><strong>Indigenous-owned bookstore<\/strong><\/a><strong> in your area!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigenous Voices On the Air<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong>Listen Up! <\/strong>*all closed-caption versions are available for free on YouTube<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmyrelationspodcast.com\/\">All My Relations podcast<\/a> (CC available through video version)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201c<em>All My Relations<\/em> is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) to explore our relationships\u2014 relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/ohdio\/balados\/7628\/autochtones-traditions-communautes-langue-territoire\">Laissez-nous Raconter: L\u2019histoire Crochie (FR)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Laissez-nous raconter : L\u2019histoire crochie A series of 11 episodes to decolonize our understanding of words like \u201cdiscovery\u201d, \u201csavage\u201d or \u201cobey\u201d \u2013 with heavy meanings in our collective history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/unreserved\">Unreserved<\/a> (CBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Unreserved<\/em> is the radio space for Indigenous voices \u2014 our cousins, our aunties, our elders, our heroes. Falen Johnson guides us on the path to better understand our shared story. Together, we learn and unlearn, laugh and become gentler in all our relations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/cbc-podcasts\/1064-buffy\">Buffy<\/a> (CBC)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201cBuffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietly reverberated throughout pop culture, and provided a touchstone for Indigenous resistance. In this five-part series, Mohawk and Tuscarora writer Falen Johnson explores how Buffy\u2019s life and legacy is essential to understanding Indigenous resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2ZQYSbvWub99w7ToU86FW7\">Nation to Nation<\/a> (APTN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Nation to Nation<\/em> takes a weekly look at the politics affecting Indigenous people in Canada. Join host Todd Lamirande as he connects you to the decision makers in Ottawa and across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3wDDiknWb2GrDMb3W2rUBs\">Warrior Life, hosted by Pam Palmater<\/a> (CC available though video version)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an Indigenous podcast about the warrior life &#8211; featuring the voices of Indigenous warriors, advocates &amp; leaders on the front lines of Indigenous resistance, resurgence and revitalization, who are protecting our lands, peoples and sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadaland.com\/podcast\/subscribe-to-thunder-bay\/\">Thunder Bay, hosted by Ryan McMahon<\/a> (Canadaland)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u201cThe highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers. Why does it all happen here?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Support Indigenous-led Organizations<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong>Donate! Volunteer! Cultivate Community!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigenousclimateaction.com\/pathways\">Indigenous Climate Action<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Justice-centered environmentalism is the ONLY environmentalism. Indigenous knowledge systems are essential to the climate movement. This Indigenous-led climate action group loudly advocates for Indigenous environmental governance and we settlers need to listen up! Rooted in Healing and Community, ICA seeks to inspire the next generation of climate leaders and build solutions from within Indigenous worldviews.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre &#8211; Kingston, ON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/fourdirections\/\">\u201cthe primary recognizably Indigenous space on-campus\u201d<\/a> since its conception in 1996, Four directions Indigenous Student Centre is committed to guiding Indigenous students in navigating predominantly white institutions through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/indigenous\/faces-spaces-and-places\/elder-profiles\">connection with elders<\/a>. 4D supports the Queen\u2019s University community in facilitating indigenous-centered programing for students and the Kingston community at large.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Future Ancestors Services Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureancestors.ca\/\">Miyoonakishkatoohk\/Future Ancestors Services Inc.<\/a> is an Indigenous and Black-owned, youth-led organization offering professional services to overcome systemic barriers in advancing climate justice through the lens of anti-racism and ancestral accountability.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yellowheadinstitute.org\/\">The Yellowhead Institute&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Based at the Toronto Metropolitan University the Yellowhead Institute is an Indigenous-led research and education centre that offers \u201ccritical and accessible resources to support the reclamation of Indigenous land and life.\u201d Their \u201cRed Papers\u201d\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/red-paper-report-final.pdf\">Land Back<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cashback.yellowheadinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Cash-Back-A-Yellowhead-Institute-Red-Paper.pdf\">Cash Back<\/a> reports\u2014are required reading for those seeking to educate themselves and contribute meaningfully to Indigenous land restitution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Created ten years ago in response to the barriers Northern Indigenous communities were facing when trying to access post-secondary education, Dechinta is the \u201conly fully land-based university accredited program in the world, and the only program explicitly mandated to serve Indigenous peoples.\u201d Donate to the Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/dn\/39579\">here<\/a> and follow them on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dechintacentre\/?hl=en\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caring Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Created in Squamish First Nation in 1998, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fncaringsociety.com\/home\">Caring Society<\/a> offers research, support to guarantee the well-being and safety of First Nations youth and provides reconciliation-based public education. The organisation works to ensure First Nations children and their families have access to \u201cculturally-based and equitable opportunities to grow up safely at home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>ITK is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itk.ca\/national-voice-for-communities-in-the-canadian-arctic\/\">The national voice for over 65,000 Inuit in Canada<\/a> advocating to protect community rights and sovereignty in Canada. Towards building resilience within their community, donate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itk.ca\/help-inuit-communities-thrive\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Assembly of First Nations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afn.ca\/\">Assembly of First Nations<\/a> is a national advocacy organization, representing First Nations perspectives and advancing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afn.ca\/about-afn\/\">collective aspirations<\/a> of First Nations individuals and communities across Canada concerning nature and environmental matters.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Metis National Council&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metisnation.ca\/\">Metis National Council<\/a>&nbsp; preserves the history and collective vision of the Metis Nations in Canada. Advocating for justice and recognition in the Canadian federation, the Metis National Council values democratic accountability in their approach to governance and builds its community by delivering programs and resources to Metis community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indian Residential School Survivors Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>IRSSS offers counseling and mental wellbeing services for Indigenous communities, including a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irsss.ca\/home\"> 24\/7 crisis line<\/a> for those in need.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Tsleil Waututh Sacred Trust&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twnsacredtrust.ca\/\">The Tsleil Waututh Sacred Trust <\/a>is an initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN), a Coast Salish nation living on the unceded territory of what is colonially known as Vancouver\u2019s Burrard Inlet. The community has been organizing for years against the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX), which was approved without TWN\u2019s consent. Learn more about the sacred trust<a href=\"https:\/\/twnsacredtrust.ca\/about-us\/\"> here<\/a> and donate to them<a href=\"https:\/\/twnsacredtrust.ca\/what-you-can-do\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nuluujaat Land Guardians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The Nuluujaat Land Guardians formed in 2021 to protect the Inuit territory (Nuluujaat) from the actions of the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation. In February 2021, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/nunatsiaq.com\/stories\/article\/nuluujaat-land-guardians-newsmaker-of-2021\/\">peacefully blockaded<\/a> the iron ore mine for one week and are now facing a $14 million lawsuit from Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation and a permanent injunction from the mining site. All money <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-inuit-protect-our-arctic-home\">donated<\/a> will support Inuit hunters opposing Baffinland\u2019s dangerous expansion project.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unist&#8217;ot&#8217;en camp and Unist&#8217;ot&#8217;en legal defence fund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unistoten.camp\/support-us\/donate\/\">Donate to the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en camp or to the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en legal defence fund.<\/a> Your contributions will enable the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en Clan to stop the pipelines that threaten all of us.<strong> <\/strong>Your contribution ensures that supporters on the land have food and medical supplies, that Unist\u2019ot\u2019en Youth are able to visit their territories, that Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Elders have the necessary materials on the land to teach traditional hunting, gathering, food processing, language skills, songs, stories and more.&nbsp; The Unist&#8217;ot&#8217;en are also facing mounting legal fees in order to protect their unceded territory. To date, more than $400K has been spent on the injunction proceedings and a related Judicial Review.<br><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Support Network for Indigenous Women &amp; Women of Colour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sniwwoc.ca\/\"><strong>The Support Network for Indigenous Women &amp; Women of Colour<\/strong><\/a> works to dismantle the barriers preventing women and girl\u2019s access to safe healthcare and reproductive justice through education, food and art. Dedicated to the empowerment of women, the organization tackles the cultural, social and political realities of Indigenous and immigrant communities and provides culturally-appropriate services through all of their programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indspire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indspire.ca\/\"><strong>Indspire<\/strong><\/a> invest in the education of M\u00e9tis, Inuit and First Nations students in urban centres, rural areas and remote communities. By sharing resources, delivering programs, and providing financial awards, Indspire contributes to increasing graduation rates for Indigenous students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigeneity on Instagram<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong>Diversify your feed and follow these Canadian Indigenous Influencers!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>@shinanova&nbsp; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shinanova\/?hl=en\">Shina Novalinga<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shinanova\"> <\/a>is an Inuk throat singer and activist. With over 4M followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shinanova\">TikTok<\/a>, she quickly gained massive attention during the first wave of the pandemic when she shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@shinanova\/video\/6815457338443582726\">intimate video<\/a> of her and her mom throat singing together. She now uses her social media platforms to celebrate and preserve Inuit throat singing; a beautiful tradition that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/article\/20210414-a-revival-of-indigenous-throat-singing\">almost lost<\/a> when it was banned by missionaries in the 1920s.<br><br>@larissa_speaks &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/larissa_speaks\/?hl=en\">Larissa Crawford<\/a> is a M\u00e9tis-Jamaican climate activist, anti-racist educator, and entrepreneur. As the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureancestors.ca\/\">Future Ancestors Services Inc<\/a>., she is a leader in anti-racism and indigenous research Initiatives, using her platform to educate her followers by sharing her experience as a disabled BIPOC creator.<br><br>@tanyatagaq &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tanyatagaq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=decf18fe-c5fd-4543-b458-6d29c045b2a3\">Tanya Tagaq<\/a> is an award winning throat singer, writer and activist from Ikaluktutiak, Nunavut.&nbsp; She blends traditional throat singing techniques with experimental electronic music. She uses her voice and her platform to fight for the rights of Indigenous people in Canada.<\/p>\n\n<p>@autumn.peltier &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/autumn.peltier\/?hl=en\">Autumn Peltier<\/a>&nbsp; is a world-renowned water-rights advocate and a leading global youth environmental activist. She comes from Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island and was named Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation in 2019. You\u2019ll&nbsp; likely remember Autumn from when she bravely criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s clean-water policies in a face-to-face meeting with him at the young age of 12, gaining her international media attention. At the age of 13, she addressed world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York on World Water Day with a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A6LcaTWTx8g\">powerful speech.<\/a> Let\u2019s follow her lead and advocate fearlessly.<br><br>@nanookfareal &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nanookfareal\/?hl=en\">Nanook Gordon<\/a> (White Wolf) is an Inuvialuk community organizer and artist and co founder of&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontoindigenoushr.com\/\">Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction (TIHR)<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp; a queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous grassroots collective providing essential frontline support and services to Indigenous houseless folks in Tkaronto.<br><br>@christi_belcourt &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/christi_belcourt\/\">Christi Belcourt<\/a>&nbsp; is an award-winning visual artist and activist from M\u00e2nitow S\u00e2kahikan, Albertaj&nbsp;whose art speaks to the struggle for Indigenous identity and sovereignty. Her activism focuses on Indigenous issues related to justice, education and meaningful reconciliation. She co-founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/onamancollective.com\/\">Onaman Collective<\/a> alongside Isaac Murdoch which helps to organize Indigenous environmentalists and artists who share a belief that the ways of the ancestors must be reclaimed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>@takaiya.blaney &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/takaiya.blaney\/\">Takaiya Blaney<\/a>&nbsp; is an Indigenous youth land defender from Tla\u2019amin First Nation, Salish Sea in BC whose activism took flight when she protested the Enbridge pipeline at age ten . She\u2019s now an award-winning actress, singer, and&nbsp; leader in the climate youth movement where she fights against the continued exploitation and injustices caused from extractive industries in her own community, while also pushing for the global rights for indigenous people and the environment.<\/p>\n\n<p>@jdutchermusic<strong> <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jdutchermusic\/\">Jeremy Dutcher<\/a>, is an award-winning and classically trained musician, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6pDRpDjrBZE\">performer<\/a>, activist and two-spirited member of the Tobique First Nation in North-West New Brunswick. He brings a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/unreserved\/indigenous-fashion-the-politics-of-ribbon-skirts-runways-and-resilience-1.6034149\/i-hope-to-be-that-beautiful-complication-for-people-jeremy-dutcher-on-his-signature-style-1.6047222\">bold signature style<\/a> and sings in his traditional Indigenous language, Wolastoqey Latuwewakon. His lyrics often talk about the natural world and our relationship to it.<\/p>\n\n<p>@yintah_access is the definitive source for news from the frontlines of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en resistance against Coastal GasLink (CGL), a pipeline slated to be drilled under one of North America\u2019s last clean rivers, Wedzin Kwa (which has been stewarded by the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en for millennia). CGL does have the consent of the hereditary leadership and is being actively resisted by the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en, who have been harassed, assaulted, and arrested by the RCMP and private CGL security forces for years. Follow the resistance<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yintah_access\/?hl=en\"> here<\/a>, donate to the movement<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yintahaccess.com\/donate\"> here<\/a>, or lend your support at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yintahaccess.com\/come-to-camp\"> camp<\/a>, if you can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>@notoriouscree &#8211;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/notoriouscree\/\">James Jones<\/a>,&nbsp; is a Cree creator from Edmonton best known for hoop dancing, an Indigenous healing dance often performed at powwows. He uses his social media accounts\u2014on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@notoriouscree?lang=en\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/notoriouscree\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a>\u2014to spread awareness and education around his culture and fill our Instagram feeds with joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>@scottwabano<strong> <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scottwabano\/\">Scott Wabano <\/a>is a two-spirit, youth Cree who is making waves in the fashion industry as a designer, stylist,&nbsp; and model who is helping to fill the gap where there is lack of Indigenous representation in the fashion industry.&nbsp; Wabano is also an advocate for Indigiqueer and two-spirited people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>@Isaac_murdoch1 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/isaac_murdoch1\/\">Isaac Murdoch<\/a>&nbsp; is an artist, activist and educator who has committed his life to the preservation of Anishinaabe cultural practices and has spent years learning directly from Elders. He co-founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/onamancollective.com\/\">Onaman Collective<\/a> alongside partner Christi Belcourt and&nbsp; they offer <a href=\"http:\/\/onamancollective.com\/murdoch-belcourt-banner-downloads\/\">their iconic art for free download <\/a>across the movement, where we\u2019re sure you\u2019ve seen it at protests and blockades&nbsp; all across turtle island.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>@chiefladybird &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chiefladybird\/?hl=en\">&nbsp;Chief Lady Bird<\/a> (Nancy King) is a Chippewa and Potawatomi collaborative artist, illustrator, educator and activist from Rama First Nation and Moosedeer Point First Nation and is well known for her stunning murals. Much of her work is based on issues that intersect indigenous communities and youth, such as the reclamation of our bodies and sexuality, the reclamation of ancestral language and land-based knowledge, and land sovereignty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigenous Cultural Centres<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong>Celebrate and preserve Indigenous art, culture, and history.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bill Reid gallery (wheelchair accessible)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Established in 2008 to celebrate the legacy of famed Haida artist Bill Reid, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billreidgallery.ca\/\">Bill Reid Gallery<\/a>\u2019s mandate is to \u201cpromote a greater awareness of Indigenous cultures and values\u201d through special exhibitions and programs. If you\u2019re in Vancouver, visit the gallery at 639 Hornby street; you can also donate <a href=\"https:\/\/interland3.donorperfect.net\/weblink\/WebLink.aspx?name=E920274QE&amp;id=27\">right here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Squamish Lil\u2019wat cultural centre (wheelchair accessible)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh (Squamish) and L\u00edl\u0313wat7\u00fal (Lil\u2019wat) cultural centre in Whistler, BC was opened in 2008 as a \u201cpartnership between two unique nations who wish to preserve, grow, and share [their] traditional cultures.\u201d Although many Squamish and Lil\u2019wat stories were lost during colonization (both nations were oral societies, and didn\u2019t develop written languages until the 1970s), many remain and you can read them on the centre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/slcc.ca\/history\/\">website<\/a>. (Such as the Lil\u2019wat origin story, who are the people of Srap7\u00fal\u2014the \u201creal tree,\u201d colonially known as the Douglas fir. Original burials of Lil\u2019wat peoples were done in this fir tree, and when a Douglas fir grew to its fullest, Lil\u2019wat ancestors believed they were closer to the Creator.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Find a Friendship Centre near you through the <a href=\"https:\/\/nafc.ca\/friendship-centres\/find-a-friendship-centre\">The National Association of Friendship Centres<\/a> (accessibility varies per location)<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indigenous Cinema&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n<p><strong>We are what we see. Exposure can make or break our mindsets, attitudes and biases.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emafilms.com\/en\/film\/beans\/\">Beans<\/a> (CC available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Directed by Mohawk-Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emafilms.com\/en\/film\/beans\/\">Beans<\/a> follows the story of the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake\u2014which Deer lived through as a child\u2014through the eyes of a young Mohawk girl named Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed &#8220;Beans&#8221;). The film is heartbreaking and inspiring, and in case you needed any more convincing, it received 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reservation Dogs (CC available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Reservation Dogs is a comedy series centering around the lives of Indigenous teens navigating life\u2019s ups and downs on an Oklahoma reservation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Angry Inuk (CC available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/angry_inuk\/\">Angry Inuk<\/a>, a feature-length documentary written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, exposes the injustices suffered by Inuit seal hunters who saw their traditional ways villainized and disrupted in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/5473\/greenpeace-apology-to-inuit-for-impacts-of-seal-campaign\/\">Greenpeace seal campaign<\/a> and the EU Ban on Seal Products. Healing our relations with Inuit communities has been a huge part of our decolonization journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reel Injun (CC available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>From cultural appropriation, blatant racism and finally towards reclamation, Reel Injun offers an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/reel_injun\/\">insightful look at the portrayal of North American Indigenous people throughout a century of cinema<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Night Raiders (CC available)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Night Raiders is a dystopian drama echoing the reality of <a href=\"https:\/\/tiff.net\/events\/night-raiders\">forced assimilation<\/a> of Indigenous children and mirroring the effects of colonizing powers that created what we call Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hsRiTf0H4EQ\">Turning tables<\/a> (short film) (CC available)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Looking for a new music genre to add to your Spotify playlists? 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