A Conversation about Truth & Reconciliation

Resources on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The Mi'kmaq

• Aboriginal People in Nova Scotia
• Mi'kmaw Resource Guide
• We were not the savages: First Nations history, by Daniel N. Paul.

Residential Schools in Canada

• Justice for Aboriginal Peoples: It's Time (6 min.)
• Residential Schools - A Chronology
• Misconceptions of Canada's Indian Residential School System
• Stolen Children: Truth and Reconciliation
• Where are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
• Shirley Flowers - Residential School Stories
• Statement of Apology - to former students of Indian Residential Schools
• Statement of Apology - to former students of Indian Residential Schools (11 min. video), also contains complete text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology.

The Mi'kmaq and Residential Schools

• The evolution of Mi'kmaw education: Charting the challenges, the failures and the successes
• Twentieth century education for Native Americans: Residential schools

How can you get involved?

• How can you get involved? (2 min.)
• National Day of Healing and Reconciliation
• Northern National Event - Witness (3:18 min.)
• TRC "It Matters to Me" Virtual Ribbon Campaign
• What is reconciliation? (3 min.)