Conversations Aboout Decolonization: Episode 4 / Residential Schools

02/18/22 • 37 min

Small Conversations for a Better World Podcast

The story of Indian Residential Schools is one of the darkest chapters in Canadian History. Join us as we talk through the reality of Residential School: it's impacts on the children, parents, survivors and communities. This will give the background for what trauma experts are realizing is a pervasive influence on the health of the Indigenous people today.
Important Links:
Indian Residential School Survivors Society413 W Esplanade
North Vancouver, BC V7M 1A6
Main: 604-985-4464
Fax: 604-985-0023
Toll-Free: 1-800-721-0066
Email: [email protected]
First Nations Health AuthorityNational Centre for Truth and ReconciliationTruth and Reconciliation calls to Action - PDF First Nations Child & Family Caring Society Touchstones of Hope, Our Dreams Matter Too, Have a Heart
Project of Heart

Book:
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing
by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Excellent book to give more detail about how childhood, adulthood and intergenerational trauma works.
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Conversations About Decolonization, Episode 3 / Legal Traditions

Come with us as we delve into Week 4 of the Indigenous Canada Course all about Legal Traditions. We will cover how Colonial ideas of law are different than Indigenous legal traditions, and how settlers utilized Colonial law to disrupt Indigenous cultural traditions of justice, systems of government, and trade.
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Indigenous Canada via Coursera.org
Indigenous Canada via the University of Alberta
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Conversations About Decolonization: Episode 5 / The Modern Indian

This weeks episode centers around the events that bring the Indigenous people from the late 1800's into the modern time. The focus includes economic enterprises that the Indigenous people could engage in, the movement from the reservation to the cities and factors that pushed and pulled people off the reservations. Inherent here are conversations about resource extraction, changing gender roles imparted by the colonizers and how women were impacted by the Indian Act.
**Correction from the episode transcript: as of February, 2022 the CBC reported more than 1000 arrests related to the Fairy Creek Blockades.***
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York, NY: One World, 2019.

Hilton, Carol Anne. Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table. Gabriola Island, BC: LaVergne New Society Publishers, 2021

Find the Indigenous Canada Course:
Indigenous Canada via Coursera.org
Indigenous Canada via the University of Alberta
Discover Small Conversations on Social Media
Instagram
Facebook
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Find Susannah Steers at www.movingspirit.ca and on social media @themovingspirit.

Find Gillian McCormick at https://physiogillian.com/ and on social media @physiogillian.