This is the first of four parts in a series dealing with Truth and Reconciliation.
PRESENTED BY Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnishy
WHERE: CES webinars take place online using Zoom (requirements).
REGISTRATION: Registration is free but mandatory.
COST: Free for CES and non-CES members
LANGUAGES: Presentation in English.
In its final report, Truth and Reconciliation of Commission wrote: “without truth, justice is not served, healing cannot happen, and there can be no genuine reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.” In this opening session, we start with truths. We share the history of residential schools in Canada and invite conversation on how to respectfully learn more.
After completing the webinar, participants will be able to:
Presenters
CRYSTAL GAIL FRASER is Gwichyà Gwich’in from Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and an associate professor of history and Native studies at the University of Alberta. A community-engaged scholar of Indian residential schools, she is the author of By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, which won the Canadian Historical Association’s Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize and the Clio Prize for the North, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Prize.
SARA KOMARNISKY is a settler of Ukrainian, Irish, and Italian ancestry who grew up in Holden, Alberta. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and is currently a researcher, public scholar, and arts administrator based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Sara is the author of Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life.
Together, Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky authored the popular public resource 150 Acts of Reconciliation in 2017. They are also co-authors of the forthcoming book Talk Treaty to Me: Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada.