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Treaty learning event confronts Canada’s history TAYLOR WEAVER ..................................
A two-day event at the Gold Horse Casino challenged participants to confront difficult truths about Canada’s history and the role treaties continue to play today. “Treaty Learning Journey 1: Let’s Talk Truth,” held April 20 and 21, brought together community members to hear a more direct and evidence-based Speaker Elaine N. Sutherland was at the Gold Horse Casino account of treaty history, residential on April 20 and 21 for the Treaty Learning Journey. Taylor Weaver Meridian Source schools and Indigenous experiences. Elaine N. Sutherland, director of advice from a former colleague during treaty education with the Office of the the program’s development. “It’s about Treaty Commissioner in Saskatoon, time that we start getting the truth out led the sessions. She said the program there and telling our story.” was intentionally designed to move S u t h e r l a n d s a i d t h e s e s s i o n s beyond what she described as softened aim to present treaties as “living, breathing documents” — foundational or incomplete versions of history. “If we’re going to do this, let’s talk agreements that made settlement in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 truth,” Sutherland said, recalling Canada possible.
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