National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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Take some time today to explore the history of Indigenous Peoples in your own and other areas.

Today in Canada honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools. I live on on traditional meeting grounds, Treaty 6 territory, gathering place, and travelling route to the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Métis, Dene and Nako-Sioux and thus acknowledge all the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries.
Through my work, house guests and travels, I have come to know Inuit of Nunavut, travellers from Mexico and Central America, and Mayans in Guatemala.


This young mother and daughter are from Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, one of the most traditional Mayan towns on Lake Atitlan where I visited in 2019. The town has a remarkable history of resilience and resistance from the mudslide of Hurricane Stanley in 2005 to the push back in 1990 during the civil war, against both the army and the guerrillas to abstain from operating in the town. This was after a decade of massacres, including 1981, the murder of Father Stan Rother, the resident Catholic priest, in Santiago Atitlán for 13 years.

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