Thank you for visiting the education stations during NDTR. The resources below are from the QR codes on some of the materials. For a more comprehensive resource guide, please visit our "General Resource" page.
Content Advisory & Support
Many of the resources below include mention and discussion around residential schools, and other potentially sensitive and traumatic subject matters. Please take care and consider your capacity for engaging in this information.
If you are in need of support services, please see the following:
- Indigenous-focused supports
- Langara Student supports
- Here2Talk
- People and Culture Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
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Videos from education stations
Grounding
- 94 Calls to Action were a result of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which met between 2015 - 2018. These calls to action outline the different ways reconciliation can begin. Read the 94 calls to action.
- The calls to action were released in 2015, some progress has been made. Learn about how many have been completed.
- Orange Shirt Day is a grassroots day observed on September 30 to commemorate Phyllis' horrible experience at a residential school. Learn more about Orange Shirt Day.
Tools of Colonization
- The effects and abuses of the Canadian child welfare system can still be seen and felt today. Learn more about the history of it here.
Place and Space
- Musqueam have been the stewards of this land from time immemorial and we are grateful to them for allowing us to do this work here. Learn more about Musqueam and their history here.
- Do you know whose land you are currently on or were born on? Find out on Whose Land.
Truth and reconciliation
- Watch the TRC Mini Documentary with Senator Murray Sinclair on Reconciliation (2:55). View on YouTube.
- c̓əsnaʔəm: The city before the city (6:39). View on YouTube.
- Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline (5:39). Watch on YouTube.
- Langara student talks about settler responsibility to learn Indigenous history (2:16). Watch on Global News.
Impacts of harm
- Residential Schools: Intergenerational Trauma (2:19). Watch on YouTube.
- UBC Dialogue: The History and Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools. Watch on Indigenous Foundations, UBC. Fast forward to 2:13:00.
Tools
- Learn more about Indian Day Schools. Click this link.
Resistance and resilience
- Savage (short film). Watch on Vimeo.
- Chanie Wenjack Heritage Minute. Watch on YouTube.
Library guides