CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions of Indian Residential Schools, Assimilation, Ongoing Harm, Colonial Impacts. The Need for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡 Reconciliation is a complex topic, one that at its core represents healing and coming together. In order to truly reconcile and move toward the future, we also need to acknowledge the truth of what occurred, and what continues to occur for Indigenous People in Canada. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a 351-page report that outlined, in damning detail, the history and ongoing legacy of residential schools. These so-called “schools,” run mostly by churches and funded by the Canadian government, enacted cultural genocide on our Peoples. Between the late 1800s and 1996, approximately 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families, communities and culture, and forced into an environment that facilitated severe cultural, emotional, spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse. In these “schools,” children were punished for speaking their own language and practicing their own cultures, forced to live in squalor, and were often never returned to their families of origin. The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available 24-hours a day for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of his or her Residential school experience. For immediate support please contact 1-800-721-0066⁣ ⁣ For more resources and information regarding Truth and Reconciliation in Indigenous Tourism ➡️ LINK IN BIO⁣ ⁣ #DestinationIndigenous #TheOriginalOriginal