Agriculture is being told that reconciliation means being open to Indigenous partnership. That means being ready to approach disagreement productively.
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Leaving a place setting: Indigenous food sovereignty and agriculture
We must be ready to approach disagreement productively if Indigenous-agriculture partnerships are to really move toward reconciliation
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: Did someone steal my land?
A Mennonite’s journey to square history, reconciliation and cultural snobbery
This story has been reposted in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30. For more stories of Indigenous farming, food sovereignty, challenges and triumphs in the ongoing work of reconciliation, see our Truth and Reconciliation landing page. Whose land was this? As truth and reconciliation have come to the fore of public
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: Indigenous ag projects boosted
Provincial and federal governments investing $1.52 million into Indigenous-led agriculture projects totackle food insecurity.
Indigenous agricultural programs across Manitoba and Canada have received a funding boost of $1.52 million from the federal and provincial government under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
TRUTH AND RECONCILLIATION: Expedited ag claims compensate First Nations
Canada’s treaties promised First Nations a way to participate in agriculture, but those commitments were rarely met
Agriculture is very much an ongoing part of Canada’s truth and reconciliation process.
Putting reconciliation in action with Indigenous-ag partnerships
Communication, listening and taking that first daunting step called key to economic reconciliation
How agriculture can build Indigenous partnerships and move towards economic reconciliation.
Editor’s note: Truth and reconciliation is more than a day or slogan
If we as journalists want to champion truth and reconciliation in our agricultural community, we must do it year-round. We need to tell the truth the past, tune our ears to the viewpoints and culture of Indigenous farmers and leaders, and embrace the discomfort that comes with this.
Every child matters
A corn maze commemorating the lost children is a place to reflect and remember
Children run through the pathways of a corn maze designed to honour children who died while attending residential schools.
Reconciling the painful past creates hope for a more promising future
The File Hills Colony near Balcarres, Sask. epitomized everything that was wrong about colonial attitudes towards Indigenous peoples. But new models for Indigenous agriculture are emerging
More than a century after its creation, there is no visible sign remaining of the File Hills Farm Colony in southern Saskatchewan. But the painful memories of an experiment that epitomized the culture of assimilation permeating that era’s attitudes towards Canada’s Indigenous peoples still live in the collective memories of residential school survivors. Likewise for some of the racist attitudes and policies that still exist today.
Sharing the countryside
Finding a new way of living together is key to the future of rural Canada
The launch of the Treaty Land Sharing Network was about people who share the countryside, together setting a different course than the one scripted for them.
Solving the reconciliation equation in agriculture
Reconciliation means leaving space for Indigenous opportunity in agriculture and agri-food, speaker says
Reconciliation means leaving space for Indigenous opportunity in agriculture and agri-food, speaker says
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