We Treaty People ways to learn more

June 9, 2022

We Treaty People is now playing, with ten episodes available. Each episode comes with a suggested way to learn more and engage the audio play or artists’ interview with your friends. Here’s a list showing all those suggestions in one place, including Indigenous cultural experiences or heritage sites.

Suggestions with Remnance

Read the Reconciliation Toolkit for Business Leaders from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, and share it with your workplace colleagues: http://www.abo-peoples.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WP-Revised-Reconciliation-Toolkit_Digital_May12-compressed.pdf

Attend a National Indigenous Peoples Day celebration on June 21 in your area.

Make plans to attend an Indigenous cultural experience, powwow or heritage site this summer. Here are some options in Saskatchewan (scroll down for ideas outside SK):

Wanuskewin Heritage Park: https://wanuskewin.com/
Batoche National Historic Site: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/sk/batoche
The National Métis Veterans’ Memorial Monument at Batoche: https://www.metismuseum.ca/metisveteransmonument
Fort Carlton Provincial Park (where Treaty 6 was signed): https://www.tourismsaskatchewan.com/provincialpark/1809/fort-carlton-provincial-park
Fort Battleford National Historic Site: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/sk/battleford
Fort Walsh & Cypress Hills Massacre National Historic Sites: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/sk/walsh
Round Prairie Métis Museum & Cemetery (south of Saskatoon on Chief Whitecap Trail/Hwy 219)

Lists of Indigenous cultural experiences beyond SK:
Indigenous Tourism British Columbia: https://www.indigenousbc.com
Indigenous Tourism Alberta: https://indigenoustourismalberta.ca/listing-category/attraction
Travel Manitoba: https://www.travelmanitoba.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/indigenous-experiences
Indigenous Tourism Ontario: https://www.indigenousexperienceontario.ca/type/cultural-experiences
Indigenous Tourism Quebec: https://indigenousquebec.com/things-to-do
Tourism New Brunswick: https://tourismnewbrunswick.ca/indigenous
Tourism Nova Scotia: https://www.novascotia.com/travel-info/about-us/mikmaq-culture
Indigenous Tourism PEI: https://www.indigenoustourismpei.com/destinations
Newfoundland & Labrador Indigenous Tourism Association: https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/trip-ideas/travel-stories/indigenous-experiences-newfoundland-labrador
Yukon First Nations Culture and Tourism: https://yfnct.ca/cultural-centres
Northwest Territories Tourism: https://spectacularnwt.com/what-to-do/indigenous-experiences
Parks Canada: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/voyage-travel/experiences/autochtones-indigenous

Suggestions with Do You Remember?

Watch Reservation Dogs, an Indigenous American teen comedy drama TV series about life on and off reserve, created by Taika Wiatiti & Sterlin Harjo: https://www.disneyplus.com/series/reservation-dogs/17MVZHUGJFZw

Attend ‘Indigenous in the City,’ a virtual and in person symposium from NAIITS at Acadia University, NS, June 2-4, 2022: https://www.naiits.com/symposium2022

Take the Indigenous Canada online course from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies (free, 12 weeks): https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada

Suggestions with You Said We’d Be Together Forever

Read the texts of treaties in your part of Canada: https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1370373165583/1581292088522

Here’s a helpful interactive map of treaty lands across Canada, including agreements in recent years: https://www.whose.land/en/

Watch the documentary Reserve 107, about steps toward reconciliation involving the community of Laird, SK and the Young Chippewayan band: https://www.reserve107thefilm.com/

Suggestions with Flag

Ask a friend to join you in reading the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls To Action, then meet up to talk about what stood out to each of you and what action you will take in response: https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Or if the Calls To Action are very familiar to you, consider doing the same with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (of which Canada is a signatory): https://nctr.ca/education/teaching-resources/united-nations-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/

Explore an interactive map of former residential school sites in Canada and the search for unmarked graves: https://globalnews.ca/news/8074453/indigenous-residential-schools-canada-graves-map/