Skip to the main content.

Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples®

Blog

  • There are no suggestions because the search field is empty.

Allyship

Trevor Snider - Covenant House Vancouver

Trevor Snider: Commemorating a Reconciliation Ally

We first met Trevor, Supervisor of Donations Processing for Covenant House Vancouver, when he attended one of our Training Weeks. Trevor took the...

Read More
hatchet in tree trunk

2 min read

Why We Shouldn’t Say 'Bury the Hatchet'

Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its report and 94 Calls to Action, we have seen significant progress for Canada and...

Read More

2 min read

How Can You Politely Correct Someone Without Causing Guilt or Reaction?

Maybe you have recently taken one of our courses surrounding Indigenous Awareness and learned new facts about the history of Indigenous Peoples of...

Read More
Kamloops Residential School

3 min read

10 Things You Can Do: Kamloops Indian Residential School

Trigger Warning: This article includes information about Residential School experiences In May 2021, the remains of 215 young Indigenous children...

Read More
Hun¿qum¿i¿num¿ alphabet poster, a dialect of Halkomelem, Coast Salish. Photo: George Mully / George Mully fonds / Library and Archives Canada.

3 min read

Indigenous Language Immersion

Indigenous languages the world over are in jeopardy. So much so that the United Nations declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages...

Read More
Hun¿qum¿i¿num¿ alphabet poster, a dialect of Halkomelem, Coast Salish. Photo: George Mully / George Mully fonds / Library and Archives Canada.

5 min read

Why Is It Important to Protect & Revitalize Indigenous Languages?

Of the most spoken languages in the world, English is third after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. But English is the most commonly spoken second...

Read More
football sitting on the field

4 min read

Let’s Not Make Reconciliation a Political Football

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. George Orwell, 1984

Read More
Truth and Reconciliation display

2 min read

What Reconciliation Is and What It Is Not

For a very long time, mainstream Canadians were unaware of the horrors and conditions that 150,000 Indigenous children endured in the Indian...

Read More
Indigenous graffiti

2 min read

A Brief Definition of Decolonization and Indigenization

Decolonization Decolonization once viewed as the formal process of handing over the instruments of government, is now recognized as a long-term...

Read More
angry face on a sign being held up by hands

2 min read

Uncivil Dialogue and Indigenous Peoples

Uncivil dialogue in Canada is alive and well, if only as indicated by the nature of the statements and conversations that take place in the comments...

Read More