Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization

Blue Hill Heritage Trust and the Friend Memorial Public Library in Brooklin are excited to announce that we will be co-hosting a Wabanaki REACH educational program called Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization on zoom Sunday, Nov 6th, 2pm-4pm.

In this two-hour educational experience, participants explore the differences between the worldview and culture of Indigenous peoples and settlers (and their descendants). Using historical and present day examples, participants will examine the deliberate strategies of colonization and resulting impacts on Indigenous people, land, and culture, including the domination culture that maintains systemic racism and oppression.  This program is intended to serve as a safe space for participants to join with peers and identify strategies to support healing in relation to each other and to the land. 

Learning Objectives:

Examine the differences in worldview and culture between indigenous peoples and settlers and their descendants through historic and present-day examples of colonization and resistance.

Describe the calculated strategies used by settlers and their descendants to exert control over indigenous people, land, and resources, and how Wabanaki people were impacted and resisted.

Discuss the domination culture that continues today, maintaining systemic oppression of Indigenous, Black, and Brown people, the truth of our shared history, and the threads for healing and change.

REACH has adapted their regular programming to an online format and have created exciting, new, innovative programs that are just as engaging and impactful – the next best thing to being in-person. 

Email landere@bluehillheritagetrust.org to register and if you have any questions. Space is limited.