A couple weeks ago I took in a presentation at the Agowiidiwinan Centre at the Forks, part of a speaker series by the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba. In a thoughtful and eye-opening walk through an often-neglected history, Andrea Gallagher-Courteau an Anishinaabekwe justice worker from Sagkeeng First Nation spoke about Gender Discrimination in and around …
Podcast: Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties shows Indigenous reparations in action
The podcast series “Threads,” hosted by Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, in June of 2024 featured Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties in a conversation with Keepers Ko’ona Saber and Kerry Saner-Harvey, along with Jonathan Neufeld from Charleswood Mennonite Church. The conversation was held at Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest at St. John’s Park in Winnipeg and …
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STG-HTT participates in the Winnipeg Indigenous Accord
Since 2021, Share the Gifts-Honour the Treaties has been an active member of the Winnipeg Indigenous Accord. The Accord is ‘a living document’ through which the City of Winnipeg and organizations that apply are accepted as partners and work together towards reconciliation in Winnipeg—to implement the 94 Calls to Action (C2A) of the Truth and …
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Questions about our Reparations Fund
We’ve been receiving some questions about the Share the Gifts-Honour the Treaties (STG-HTT) Reparations Fund from groups and individuals considering reparations. Here’s some responses to some of those questions based on where we are currently at the beginning of 2022. What is the current process for distribution of the STG-HTT Reparations fund? Currently this process …
What ‘Gifts’ are you talking about?
Yesterday’s Doctrine, Today’s Inheritance We know that without the land we wouldn’t have a home, food and water, or the resources we need for a livelihood. We all have stories of how we came to be in a particular place. But rarely do we dig into the historical presumptions beneath these stories which allowed them …
4 Things you Should Know about Being white,* and Feeling Guilty
Reposted from It’s Not Just You: Counselling in Context by Joy Eidse Dear “white, and Feeling Guilty, in Canada”, It was in my late teen years that I first began to notice the fact that there was a division between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. I had little information about the history of our country or context …
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