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❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Dec 16

🇨🇦 Sacred headdress of Long Plain chiefs repatriated by residential school museum

'This is reconciliation,' First Nation councillor says

#FirstNations #Reconcilliation
#Indigenous #Manitoba #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/headdress-long-plain-chiefs-repatriated-manitoba-9.7017911

First Nation councillor says 'this is reconciliation' after grandfather's headdress repatriated | CBC Southwest Manitoba

A sacred headdress that belonged to generations of leaders of a First Nation in southern Manitoba is being returned.

CBC

❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️Nov 6

🇨🇦 Indigenous leaders decry budget’s lack of money for key reconciliation programs

Education, health and urban Indigenous programs are running out of money, prompting fears about their future

#Education #Indigenous #FirstNations

#Health #Reconcilliation #Budget2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-leaders-budget-reaction-9.6968458

Indigenous leaders decry budget’s lack of money for key reconciliation programs | CBC News

Indigenous leaders are concerned after this year’s federal budget left key reconciliation programs without guaranteed money beyond spring 2026. Programs covering education, health and urban Indigenous friendship centres are running out of money, prompting fears they could be terminated or face massive cuts.

CBC

🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈Oct 1

Everyday we honor them. Today, for us settlers especially, is a day 2 reflect on how we can integrate reconciliation with our behavior & lives for the next year. How can we become active, physical vehicles for enacting decolonization within & without? #Decolonization #Truth #Reconcilliation #UNDRIP

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34svvwvigewflzebqmbxi6pe/post/3m23qjdbenk2p

Robin May 22, 2025

How can the #IOC miss such an obvious opportunity to support #reconcilliation? The Haudenosaunee Nationals #lacrosse team absolutely should be allowed to compete as a nation - the world should be honoured to have them. From the NYTimes: They Invented the Game. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the #Olympics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/magazine/lacrosse-olympics-indigenous-haudenosaunee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE8.NY1G.SdF3iBUb0BVH&smid=nytcore-android-share

They Invented Lacrosse. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the Olympics?

Lacrosse returns to the Olympics in 2028, on American soil. Why won’t the I.O.C. let Indigenous North American teams compete?

The New York Times

Light May 2, 2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntellectualDarkWeb/comments/1kc641x/transgenderism_my_two_cents/
Very well put.
#transgenderism #intellectualdarkweb #reconcilliation

ReallyCanadianFly Dec 17, 2024

#Benin #slavetrade #Africa #reconcilliation #citizenship #BlackMastodon

Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade | AP News https://apnews.com/article/benin-citizenship-law-slavery-descendants-8b076652fbaac17761ff002992f2b604?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade. It’s part of efforts by the West African nation to face up to the role it played. The coastal town of Ouidah was one of Africa’s most active slave-trading ports, and at the “Tree of Forgetfulness,” enslaved people were said to be symbolically forced to forget their past lives. One French Caribbean woman now seeking citizenship in Benin says that “I am doing this for my ancestors.”

AP News

8Petros [MOVING!!]Oct 15, 2023

6 years ago, #OTD
#Morality, #past, #integrity, #reconcilliation
The central problem of radical movement is that people are imperfect. A radical political activist can have a dark past as a fraudster or abuser or just plain madman.

Idealistic approach makes people blind to the fact, that nobody is born a moral and fully aware anarchist -- we mostly have a history of our own struggle before we joined the movement. And this history sometimes is not pretty. At all.

Thus, any community should design and implement mechanisms to deal with this problem. It is a danger on moral and tactical level, whether we talk about a prominent founder of US countrywide network or a purser of local affinity group. Interesting, what would be your suggestions, folks. How to approach the problem?

Yes, we can go the way that we just sift out the bad seeds.

Or the way that the higher cause means automatic redemption.

But perhaps we can design a way of interactions within a radical collective that helps people to deal with their past in a morally acceptable way _and_ to strengthen the collective at the same time?

Boardda Mihkkal Sep 30, 2023

Could -and should- #Indigenous art be a tool in a process of #reconcilliation? With whom, and how?

I have been honored to lead an episode of the Dáiddadállu #podcast starring #Sámi politician and activist Aili Keskitalo, #Inuit artist Aqqalu Berthelsen, and Sámi activist and artist Petra Laiti - on #indigenousart and reconcilliation.

Spotify link: https://spotify.link/yis94b5HvDb

Global News Sep 27, 2023

University of Regina introduces new Indigenous engagement plan to further reconciliation
The plan consists of 34 actions grouped into four themes: student success, spaces and places, teaching and learning and community building.
#globalnews #Canada #JeffKeshen #Reconcilliation #ReginaNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/9987719/university-of-regina-new-indigenous-engagement-plan/