Four 杏吧原创 History Students Reflect on Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee
After years spent travelling across the country gathering statements from Indian Residential Schools survivors about their experiences, as well as those of their families and communities, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada delivered its final report at a national closing event in Ottawa in the first week of June 2015.
A group of 杏吧原创 history students from Michel Hogue’s summer course , 鈥淐anadian Indigenous History: Truth, Reconciliation and Redress, 鈥 were among the many participants in this landmark event. After weeks spent reading about the history of residential schools, listening to survivors, and discussing the origins of the TRC itself, students were tasked with witnessing and documenting the varied events associated with the TRC鈥檚 conclusion. They were then asked to consider some of the implications of this event for historical writing about residential schools and the challenges of reconciliation.
See samples of their workon Making History Matter, 杏吧原创’s History undergraduate publication.
Photograph: March for Reconciliation, Ottawa, May 31, 2015. Photo credit: Mike Gifford (Flickr)