Finding Truth & Reconciliation in Canada

Bev Sellars, Anne Spice, Kisha Supernant and Gina Starblanket

Finding Truth & Reconciliation in Canada

Bev Sellars, Anne Spice, Kisha Supernant and Gina Starblanket

7:30pm

Tuesday, October 26

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. This impactful panel discussion with Indigenous scholars and writers Chief Bev Sellars (Xat’sull), Anne Spice (Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation) and Kisha Supernant (Métis/Papaschase/British), will look at the resurgence of Indigenous legal and governance systems intentionally moving away from settler colonial institutions. Panelists will explore, with moderator Gina Starblanket (Cree and Saulteaux), how the law can be harnessed to promote the well-being and self-determination of Indigenous peoples, and the path that lies ahead to finding truth and reconciliation in this country, particularly after a year that has seen the heartbreaking discovery of thousands of unmarked burials at former residential schools. Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

The topics discussed in this event may be heavy for some. Feel free to step away as needed to take care of yourselves. The event will be recorded and available for 72 hours after airing.

The Hope for Wellness Help Line is open to all Indigenous peoples across Canada for 24/7 for counselling and crisis intervention. Call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or connect to the online chat at hopeforwellness.ca.

Former residential school students can also call 1-866-925-4419 for emotional crisis referral services and information on other health supports.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Originally part of TIFA 2021, this event will be part of a special re-release spotlighting Canadian voices. It will be free to watch with no registration required. The video will automatically appear above on July 6, 2023, and will become unavailable on July 12 at 11:59pm ET.

Panel Discussion

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. This impactful panel discussion with Indigenous scholars and writers Chief Bev Sellars (Xat’sull), Anne Spice (Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation) and Kisha Supernant (Métis/Papaschase/British), will look at the resurgence of Indigenous legal and governance systems intentionally moving away from settler colonial institutions. Panelists will explore, with moderator Gina Starblanket (Cree and Saulteaux), how the law can be harnessed to promote the well-being and self-determination of Indigenous peoples, and the path that lies ahead to finding truth and reconciliation in this country, particularly after a year that has seen the heartbreaking discovery of thousands of unmarked burials at former residential schools. Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

The topics discussed in this event may be heavy for some. Feel free to step away as needed to take care of yourselves. The event will be recorded and available for 72 hours after airing.

The Hope for Wellness Help Line is open to all Indigenous peoples across Canada for 24/7 for counselling and crisis intervention. Call the toll-free Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or connect to the online chat at hopeforwellness.ca.

Former residential school students can also call 1-866-925-4419 for emotional crisis referral services and information on other health supports.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Originally part of TIFA 2021, this event will be part of a special re-release spotlighting Canadian voices. It will be free to watch with no registration required. The video will automatically appear above on July 6, 2023, and will become unavailable on July 12 at 11:59pm ET.

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Bev Sellars
Bev Sellars is a former Chief and Councillor of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She also worked as a community advisor for the B.C. Treaty Commission. Sellars served as the representative for the Secwépemc communities on the Cariboo-Chilcotin Justice Inquiry in the early 1990s. In her writing, she has spoken out on racism, residential schools and the environmental and social threats of mineral resources exploitation in her region.

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Anne Spice
Anne Spice is a Tlingit member of Kwanlin Dun First Nation, acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at X University and an Associate Fellow at the Yellowhead Institute. They have been actively supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and their work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, histories and futures of Indigenous resistance, poetry and art. Their writing has been published in Environment and Society, Jacobin, The New Inquiry and Asparagus Magazine.

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Kisha Supernant
Dr. Kisha Supernant is Métis/Papaschase/British and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta. An award-winning teacher, researcher and writer, she is interested in Indigenous archaeology, heart-centered archaeological practice and the uses of technology to explore the past. She is the Director of the Exploring Métis Identity Through Archaeology (EMITA) project, a collaborative research project which takes a relational approach to exploring the material past of Métis communities in western Canada. Recently, she has been helping Indigenous communities relocate the resting places of their relatives who never came home from Indian residential schools.

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Gina Starblanket
Gina Starblanket is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and is the former Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Decolonization at the University of Calgary. Gina is Cree and Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory. She is the Principal Investigator of the Prairie Indigenous Relationality Network and her research takes up questions of treaty implementation, prairie Indigenous life, gender and Indigenous feminism.

Read more about Gina Starblanket

7:30pm

Tuesday, October 26

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