Visioning Reconciliation

This project provided the opportunity for dialogue on the need for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples on the Sunshine Coast. Dialogue circles were facilitated to build a sense of shared understanding about reconciliation, what it is not, and what we can do to build it on the Coast. Pairing dialogue circles with Indigenous eco-tours/land-based learning was particularly successful during Covid-19.

Healing Regalia

This project began with the Survivors and what they say their needs are. Ɂakista xaxanak Garry Feschuk, former Chief of shishalh Nation and his wife Pauline visited each of the Survivors to talk with them about their experience and see how the project can help them. Now the project will begin the work to support them to reclaim what was taken from them to the extent possible. It will do this by: