06/03/2025
June invites us into remembrance.
Into responsibility.
Into relationship.
It is a time to hold truth and honour together. A time to grieve the harm and celebrate the brilliance, to listen to the lands as ancestors, and to the Indigenous Peoples who have always known how to walk in good relation with them.
This month, we remember what was taken.
The children who never came home from residential schools.
The generations displaced by the 60s Scoop and now the Millennium Scoop.
The lands stolen. The languages silenced. The governance systems dismantled.
But we also remember what was never lost.
Ceremony.
Community.
Resistance.
Joy.
Indigenous Peoples are not relics of history. They are living, thriving nations, holding deep knowledge, fierce love, and a vision for the future rooted in sovereignty, care, and kinship.
Too often, reconciliation is treated like fancy assimilation and reduced to a checklist. As if inviting Indigenous Peoples into harmful systems could ever be enough. Systems that were built to erase, exclude, and assimilate.
Real reconciliation means transformation.
It means changing the systems, not Indigenous people. It means moving with humility, walking gently, and understanding that accountability is not punishment, it is part of being in community.
As Murray Sinclair said, “We have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top. We call upon you to do the climbing.”
This is the climb: To unlearn, to listen, to act. To show up again and again in right relation.
For the children.
For the ancestors.
For the land.
For all our relations.
✨ This month, commit to more than learning. Do your own healing. Support Indigenous-led movements. Show up. Speak up. Share resources. Shift systems. ✨
