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First step for native reconciliation: teach the history. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has received a dab of media attention, much of it for regrettable reasons.

First step for native reconciliation: teach the history

In October 2008, the TRC Chair Justice Harry LaForme resigned, citing the political interference of the Assembly of First Nations and the insubordination of his (AFN-appointed) co-commissioners, Claudette Dumont-Smith and Jane Brewin Morley. This inauspicious beginning yielded to inauspicious mid-points, the Canadian franchise of the TRC brand-name drawing attention for delays and the bureaucratic impediments which hindered its progress.

The messenger aside, what about the message? On Friday, the final day of a three-day AFN National Justice Forum, in Vancouver, the Commission has been scheduled to release an Interim Report. Here I may as well state that I’m a partisan, not of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission but of the complex truth. Reconciliation report shines light on 'dark chapter' in Canadian past. A shared residential school experience - News. Tyler Clarke Daily Herald "I'm not going to tell my story because I've heard my story a lot today," former residential school student Marlene Bear said, Thursday.

A shared residential school experience - News

Caledonia Courier - Returning To Spirit (Residential School Reconciliation Program) Whose responsibility is it for the residential schools? Everyone’s! Non Aboriginal and Aboriginal Workshops.