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Week 3- Truth & Reconciliation4/26/2020 In 2008, PM Harper addressed the House of Commons, and Canada and issued a formal apology to the survivors of Indian Residential schools. You can watch a short excerpt here: A settlement was reached from a class action lawsuit of abuse survivors and other school attendees. Each were offered individual payouts, but many of them were declined in favour of creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with two main purposes: 1) hear testimony from families and survivors and document what occurred 2) make recommendations for the reconciliation of the aboriginal people and other Canadians Here is the Commission Chair Justice Murray Sinclair, speaking about it: After years of gathering stories, the Commission established a list of 94 recommendations for reconciliation and established the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Museum in Winnipeg. Your challenge this week is to complete two activities about reconciliation. First, look at excerpts from Justice Sinclair's delivery of the 94 recommendations (below), and second, explore the interactive page about the 94 recommendations to assess how we, as Canadian citizens, are accomplishing those 'calls to action'. I have also linked a CBC article that nicely summarizes the list.
This week's optional discussion topics: Monday 10am: Truth & Reconciliation Thursday 9am: Echo Support
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Week 2-Timeline Events4/20/2020 This week we will be adding to our Aboriginal Events to your previous timelines, you will be given a structure, and an event-- and you will be asked to share the information with your peers via the TEAMS channel: Aboriginal Timeline. Please also submit the final copy of your post through TEAMS. (I will post a couple examples so that my expectations are clear.)
To "claim" an event-- start a post with just the name of the event-- first come first serve.
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Week 1- Material Review4/15/2020 This week we are going to be reviewing the work we started before Spring Break and spending the next couple of weeks adding to our timelines in preparation for an essay. 1) You should have a timeline that includes the events we covered as a class, and some note as to whether they moved towards or away from multiculturalism. 2) You have completed a mind map that looked at many of the same ideas. This week's assignment is to submit organized notes on episodes 9 & 10 of "Canada: The Story of us". You have already been asked to watch these clips-- so if you have already taken notes, just submit what you have. If you haven't, please watch them. I also what to emphasize that you need to be handing in old work-- I will be sending individual emails soon.
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