This is the fourth 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 members only.
LANGUAGES: Presentation in English.
It’s been over 10 years since the TRC’s final report, yet only a small number of the 94 Calls to Action have been completed. What can we do—in our families, workplaces, and communities—to move truth and reconciliation forward? This final session focuses on action: big or small, collective or personal, every step matters. We discuss potential paths forward with reference to the 94 Calls to Action, 150 Acts of Reconciliation, the MMIWG Calls to Justice, among others.
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.