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Indigenous Resources

September 25, 2024

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Image source: 2024 Every Child Matters Orange Shirt Design Contest winner (orangeshirtday.org)

Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Sept. 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day — a tie to acknowledge Canada’s violent colonial history, especially the atrocities of the church-backed residential school system. This dark reality has caused intergenerational trauma for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. However, residential schools are just one outcome of colonization detrimental to Indigenous folks. The impact of the 60’s Scoop, “indian hospitals”, and birth alerts continue today. 

Join us in pausing, reflecting, and learning together through these Indigenous organizations, educators, and resources.  

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society says reconciliation must include the following: 

  • Truth-telling: Telling the story of Residential Schools and Canada’s history as they have affected and continue to affect First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children, youth, families, and communities
  • Acknowledging: Learning from the past, seeing one another with new understanding, and recognizing the need to move forward on a new path
  • Restoring: Doing what we can as organizations and individuals to redress the harm and making changes to ensure it does not happen again
  • Relating: Moving forward together in a respectful way, along a new path, to achieve better outcomes for First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities

We share this information in hopes of contributing to efforts towards decolonization, indigenization, and reconciliation in our communities. 

Table of contents

This resource is organized into the following categories. Remember, you can use the Ctrl F (control-F) function to search for anything specific. 

  • Resources 
  • Individual resources 
  • Organizations and businesses 
  • Educators and advocates 
  • Helplines 
  • More support 
A graphic of a cartoon-style brain with arms and legs gesturing to a lightbulb. The background is light blue. (AutismBC/Pexels)
A graphic of a cartoon-style brain with arms and legs gesturing to a lightbulb. The background is light blue. (AutismBC/Pexels)

Resources

Individual resources 

Organizations/Businesses

Educators/Advocates

Media, Television and Movies About Residential Schools Intergenerational Trauma 

Helplines

  • National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419  
  • Indian Residential School Survival Society Crisis Line (toll-free): 1-800-721-0066 
  • Kuu-Us Crisis Line Society: 250-723-4050 (adults and elders) | 250-723-2040 (youth) | 1-800-588-8717 (toll-free) 
  • Métis Crisis Line: 1-833-638-4722 

More Support

  • First Nations Health Authority | website 
  • The Indian Residential School Survivors Society | website 
  • Saa’ust Centre | website 

Want us to add more resources? Please contact us!

Resources

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Further Reading

Symbia Barnaby, Indigenous Storyteller and Neurodivergent Mother

September 27, 2023

“An Elder helped me to look at my child in a completely different way. It was so liberating because of the Western view I come from in my medical background. It helped me to understand the distinction between a medical model and then a holistic wellness model and it started to unravel some of my ideas about disability”

Being 2-Spirit & Autistic with Cole Lawrence

September 26, 2023

Being 2-Spirit and AuDHD has allowed me to embrace myself, connect with my cultural heritage, and find a sense of belonging.

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Joni Oldhoff on Systemic and Intergenerational Poverty

April 11, 2024

We hear a lot about intergenerational trauma, but we rarely talk about the trauma of intergenerational poverty.

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