Learn Together
In the journey to reconciliation it is important for those of us who are non-Indigenous (also known as setttlers) to educate ourselves on the journey of the First Peoples of this land we occupy and the injustices and discrimination the Indigenous peoples have endured and continue to have to endure.
“It is clear that the schools have been, arguably, the most damaging of the many elements of Canada’s colonization of this land’s original peoples and, as their consequences still affect the lives of Aboriginal people today, they remain so.” John S. Milloy, A National Crime
St Mary's Documentary
Listen as 3 people share their experience and how they survived St. Mary’s Indian Residential School.
Interactive Map of Indigenous lands
“Native Land Digital strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide.”
Lost Stories Project Kidnapped Sto:lo Boys
This is part of the Lost Stories project series. This video talks about the young Stó:lō boys who were kidnapped from the Fraser Valley during the gold rush era. This forgotten story has been brought to the forefront in hopes that people will gain a better understanding Stó:lō history.
The Inconvenient Indian
“The Inconvenient Indian is at once a ‘history’ and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be ‘Indian’ in North America.”
