I will be using MLA format for citations in this assignment

Part 1

What is orange shirt day and why is it important? Orange shirt day is a Canadian holiday dedicated to acknowledging the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools. This day is important because we are remembering the indigenous peoples that have lost their lives. By acknowledging the peoples that have lost their lives, we are also showing more indigenous representation for the future. This day will help advocate the voices of these indigenous peoples that have not felt like they have had a voice before.

Orange Shirt Society” Orange Shirt Society, https://orangeshirtday.org/ . Accessed 27 October 2023

Part 2

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Summarize in your own words Canada’s progress in addressing the 94 calls to action

Canada created 94 calls to action. Canada made it to acknowledge the suffering and history that the indigenous peoples in residential schools went through and to create a system. A system to ensure we educate the future going forward so this abusive past will never get repeated.

The effect of the reconciliation advocacy looks quite good if we look at the statistics. The red dots, meaning reconciliation are starting to include more. Meaning, reconciliation is being used with more effort.

With the 94 calls to action, only 13 have been completed. Those 13 have been completed over the last 7 years. 63 have been proposed, but still not completed. The government has been going at a significantly slow pace with these actions.

I believe Canada is making progress in addressing the 94 calls to action, but I also believe the pace at which we are going at is poor. We are going in the right direction, but it is still not enough to remark what these people have been through.

CBC Radio-Canada “Beyond 94 Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.” CBC News, CBC/Radio-Canada. 19 March 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/beyond-94?&cta=2. Accessed 28 October 2023.

Part 3

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=475D2365E80248A9A2759CEECCC1B7CC

Why and when was a National truth and reconciliation day established?

National Truth and Reconciliation day was established on March 9, 2023. This day was made not as a day off, but as a day to honour the Indigenous peoples that went to residential schools. To really educate ourselves on the tragic history of the residential schools. To learn more and really engage with this topic. To remember the sorrows of what these children felt.

Government of British Columbia, “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.” Province of British Columbia, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/indigenous-people/national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation#in-bc. Accessed 1 November 2023.

Part 4

What is call to action #63iii? How does this assignment help you build “your capability for intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect.”

Call to action #63iii is about educating students on what the indigenous peoples have gone through and really feeling empathy towards them.

This assignment has helped me build more intercultural understanding on this topic because I have researched it a lot more and educated myself about the culture that was stripped away from the indigenous peoples. Since doing more research, I have developed more empathy towards the Indigenous peoples that were in residential schools because I got to learn more about what happened in these residential schools and how the Indigenous peoples were affected by them. I also learned that they were not treated with mutual respect compared to non indigenous peoples and many did not respect them or their culture.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action.” 2015, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf. Accessed 1 November 2023

Part 5

What is one thing you learned about the Kwikwetlem Nation and our shared land?

I learned about the origin of Coquitlam. How Coquitlam originally received the name Kwikwetlem from the Indigenous peoples. The word Kwikwetlem was challenging for the settlers to say so they changed it to Coquitlam. I learned how settlers renamed their land. I learned how their land shifted and adapted to what it is today.

“The Story of Kwikwetlem.” YouTube, uploaded by Kwikwetlem First Nation, 2 years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EanZG7DGVTo, Accessed 1 November 2023

Part 6

After reading that article and listening, I have learned that there is only under 100 speakers that still speak this interesting language because of residential schools stripping their language away from them. Luckily, the Indigenous peoples from the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm nation are trying to spread their language so that we can continue the lasting of their language into the future.

“Kwikwetlem First Nation.” Kwikwetlem First Nation, https://www.kwikwetlem.com/pronunciation-guide.htm. Accessed 2 November 2023