Seeking Truth and Making “Reconcili-actions”

Our Orange Shirt Day and Truth and Reconciliation Week are essential to the Greenwood community. But why? It is important because we need to make amends for the harms done to Indigenous communities in the past and recognize how these wrongs have ongoing effects in the present. We continued on the journey of reconciliation by creating more awareness and action within the Greenwood community. 

An initiative we ran last week was an assembly where we highlighted the importance of truth and reconciliation. We featured a video sharing many different perspectives from Indigenous communities across Canada on the importance of the week, in addition to voices from the Greenwood community emphasizing the importance of action. Another activity Greenwood featured during Truth and Reconciliation Week was a screening of The Secret Path, presented by the Social Action Committee. This film reminds us of how important it is to take action on truth and reconciliation through the story of a young boy who tragically died fleeing a residential school. Finally, as a committee, we had every Adviser group in the school write down commitments on how our community can move reconciliation forward. We call these commitments Greenwood’s Reconcili-actions, and they will help us commit to what we as individuals and as a community can do to make a difference. 

It’s important to do what we can as a community to find innovative initiatives to help spread awareness at Greenwood on our path to reconciliation.