Brandon’s Reality and Reconciliation Week 2022

Whereas Reality and Reconciliation Week 2022 is in full swing, Wednesday and Thursday day had been/are devoted to particular teams. However developing, these are noteworthy:

1. Thursday evening on the All Nations Sharing Circle on the Riverbank Discovery Centre: Canupawakpa Dakota Nation’s Noella Eagle joins us as soon as once more in our second yr of Reality and Reconciliation Week in Brandon to reply the query: What’s Reality and Reconciliation? Noella is a language keeper and educator. She unpacks what these phrases can actually imply to every one in every of us – Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

2. Friday, Sept. 30 is a giant day. Noella Eagle will supply an introductory educating on Reality and Reconciliation, adopted by Dakota Information Keeper Frank Tacan, who will supply a educating on Orange Shirt Day. That’s at 10 a.m. on the All Nations Sharing Circle on the Discovery Centre.

3. At 1:00 p.m., on the large tent amidst the tipis on the Riverbank, a proper occasion will happen previous to the Orange Shirt Day Stroll. That is the agenda:

   Emcee: Wakpa McKay

• Mayor Rick Chrest will supply a couple of phrases.
• Chief Jennifer Bone will unveil the honorary road indicators that might be situated at Grand Valley Highway and 18^th Avenue and Grand Valley Highway and 34 Avenue (the highway that results in the location of the previous Brandon Indian Residential/Industrial Faculty) – Wokiksuye Canku (Remembrance Highway in Dakota). Chief Bone will communicate.
• Sioux Valley Dakota Nation’s residential college committee has provided survivors a chance to share with those that have gathered for the stroll

The stroll is scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m., as soon as we’ve seen the Elders and Survivors off on a bus that can take them to the residential college web site, the place they may observe the walkers who go by the location in help.

A photograph of the route is connected. If all works out as deliberate, the Unity Riders will meet the walkers on the base of the sphere (an previous highway that’s between two fields and is walkable) and lead them as much as the location. We received’t be pausing on the web site, as there might be too many individuals. We are going to loop to the precise and over to 34^th Avenue, and head again to the Riverbank Discovery Centre for meals.

4. Saturday, Oct 1. – Therapeutic by the River – and night of ceremony and efficiency. (Program connected.)  This occasion begins at 5:00 p.m. on the Fusion Credit score Union Stage on the Riverbank Discovery Centre. On that evening we expertise and have fun Indigenous tradition.

**Please be aware: We hope to unfold the phrase that individuals ought to undoubtedly convey their very own garden chairs and blankets. We’re graced with wonderful climate as soon as once more, however when that solar goes down … Brrrr. Deliver some layers and blankets!

5. Lastly, on Sunday Oct. 2, as a observe as much as our 1:00 p.m. Reconciliation Panel we maintain on Saturday, we’ll host an Financial Reconciliation Panel, with Gambler First Nation Chief David LeDoux because the Keynote Speaker. That is the agenda:

Emcee: Brandon Chamber of Commerce’s Connor Ketchen

• Introduction and preamble by Mayor Rick Chrest, broad traces from a political standpoint
• Keynote Speaker Chief David LeDoux will current the imaginative and prescient for the Gambler First Nation Brandon property and have fun key financial milestones to this point
• Visitor and employees audio system: 1) Heritage Co-op’s Western Nation’s Barry Cooper. Western Nations is a rising community of unbiased, regionally owned Indigenous gasoline bars. 2)The Metropolis of Brandon director of Financial Improvement Sandy Trudel. 3) And others.

Goals of Reality and Reconciliation Week

1. To honour:
2. a) the Indigenous kids who by no means made it house;
3. b) the Indigenous kids who made it house however wouldn’t survive the injury achieved to them;
4. c) the Indigenous kids who made it by regardless of the life-long scars in and on their individuals inflicted by horrifying insurance policies made actual or, worse, nightmares, by folks prepared to enact and abuse these insurance policies;
5. d) the Indigenous kids and kids’s kids of the survivors who proceed to dwell with the implications of these insurance policies, together with what’s now ingrained in Canadian methods and society; and
6. e) the Indigenous households and communities, whose houses and group areas went silent when their kids had been ripped from them.
7. To supply immersive studying alternatives, free to all Brandon residents, steeped in Indigenous historical past, views, and tradition.
8. To construct stronger relationships amongst Brandon’s numerous inhabitants and the Indigenous individuals who have lived on these lands for millennia, rooted in mutual respect and understanding.
9. To convey the group collectively within the spirit of reconciliation, based mostly on truths of the previous.