Truth Reconciliation Commission and Residential Schools

executive summary: Complete coverage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission final event Truth and Reconciliation report brings calls for action, not words Truth and Reconciliation Commission urges Canada to confront 'cultural genocide' of residential schools On Tuesday, the TRC released a 360-plus page executive summary with 94 recommendations, according to CBC. It comes after the commission travelled the country, listening to six years of testimony from nearly 7,000 witnesses. From grassroots activists to celebrities to non-indigenous people, users tweeted out what reconciliation looks like to them — and they are still tweeting today. The report provides stories from survivors, including tales of children taken from parents, siblings separated and abuse and neglect at residential schools. Starvation policies were more than "cultural."— @christibelcourt It didn't take long before others began using Belcourt hashtag to share what reconciliation looks like to them. a treaty card for every settler and immigrant to remind them of their treaty obligations.— @Ganosono the fact that reconciliation goes far beyond what the government is currently willing to acknowledge or commit to.— @ZoeSTodd mandatory treaty obligation education in Canada citizenship process.— @Ganosono public knowledge that residential schools have had a long term intergenerational effect.— @tagaq not calling the outcomes of genocide and colonialism "native problem/issues".— @laurareidtweets understanding that Treaty lands are still unceded territories.— @apihtawikosisan Even Justice Murray Sinclair, the chair of the TRC, tweeted about his personal reconciliation view. a granddaughter proud to be Anishinaabe.— @Sincmurr Others acknowledged that the Inuit and Métis have been left out of the TRC process. recognizing many indigenous ppls excluded from Indian Residential School settlement; everyone deserves justice— @madinuk People talked about who and what the reconciliation process includes. Visual artist Christi Belcourt began the hashtag with: acknowledgement of the attempted "genocide" of Indigenous Peoples. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.