Speaking Our Truth by Monique Gray Smith

Author:Monique Gray Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2017-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION

As part of the IRSSA, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was launched in 2009. When the commission, Elders, advisors and staff, along with representatives from the Survivors and the members of the parties to the settlement agreement, gathered for the first time, one of their initial tasks was to come up with a working definition of reconciliation. As they brainstormed and shared their personal definitions of reconciliation, they came up with 128 different definitions. Wow! That gives you a sense of how complex reconciliation can be.

Indigenous leaders gather to hear Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology in the House of Commons in June 2008. Granny Wabano (left, with cane) was the oldest living Residential School Survivor. She died in 2015 at the age of 111. REUTERS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

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