Course Description

Navigating Canada’s complex histories requires a deeper understanding of colonialism and its ongoing impact on Indigenous Peoples. The legacy of colonization—through policies of assimilation, dispossession, and systemic injustice—continues to shape the everyday realities of Indigenous communities across the country.

Learning about Canada’s residential school system, the Sixties Scoop, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Peoples is essential to sitting with the truth of these histories.

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, observed on September 30, is a federal statutory holiday that honours the survivors, families, and communities affected by residential schools.

Join us to learn more about the truths of Canada’s complex histories—and what meaningful steps you can take on the path toward reconciliation.

Your Instructor

Lorelei Parker (she/her)

Lorelei Parker, known by her ancestral name as Blue Thunder Spirit Woman, is a Métis Canadian Cultural Mediator, a Rotary Peace Fellow and Positive Peace Activator as well as a Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Program alumna. She has worked on community-based projects locally and internationally with government agencies, non-government organizations and the business sector. These projects centre on peace and conflict transformation, Indigenous matters and the elevation of female voices in leadership. Lorelei has worked across the globe in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to the course!

    2. Accessibility Transcript - Introduction

    3. Land Acknowledgement From Lorelei

    4. About Lorelei

    5. Trigger Warning

    1. Accessibility Transcript - Chapter 1

    2. Chapter 1

    3. Test your knowledge on Chapter 1!

    1. Accessibility Transcript - Chapter 2

    2. Chapter 2

    3. Test your knowledge on Chapter 2!

    1. Accessibility Transcript - Chapter 3

    2. Chapter 3

    3. Test your knowledge on Chapter 3

    4. Self-Reflection

    1. Accessibility Transcript - In Conclusion and Thank You

    2. In Conclusion and Thank You

    3. More resources for you

    4. Before you go...would love your feedback!

About this course

  • 45 minutes in length
  • Self-paced online course
  • $75 + Tax
    Proceeds will be donated to Indigenous serving organizations

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In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live, work and play on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory. Canadian Equality Consulting honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Métis, and First Nations people that call this nation home.