"What is the next step?": Teagan De Laronde on Truth & Reconciliation

In this interview, we sit down with Teagan – a citizen of Red Sky Métis Independent Nation, a multi talented activist, and a recent UofT grad –  to gain her perspective on UofT’s action and inaction with respect to supporting Indigenous students, following through on its Calls to Action, encouraging its faculties to incorporate Indigenous history and knowledge into classrooms. What’s Teagan’s best piece of advice on how to be a part of the solution and not perpetuate colonial harm? Start with educating yourself! 

Check out Treaty Conversations, a project co-produced by Teagan on the history and meaning of treaty relationships around the Great Lakes. Read about Teagan’s work as a storyteller for First Story Toronto. To read about Borden Dairy’s role in Canada’s Nutrition Experiments on Indigenous children, check out this article.

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We at the UnCover Podcast are producing and studying on the lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River. We live under the Dish With One Spoon Treaty, the Williams Treaties, and Treaty 13. As part of these Treaties, we must work “in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect” to be truthful about our positionality as students of the University of Toronto who benefit from the wealth accumulated by Canadian universities through stolen land, artifacts, and culture of Indigenous Peoples. We hope to use our platform to speak and act beyond this acknowledgement to educate ourselves and our audiences on how students around UofT challenge its foundations of colonialism, capitalism, and extraction.

Resources:

• Support an ongoing effort to restore the sovereignty of the Haudenosaunee: 1492 Land Back Lane, follow on Instagram @1492landbacklane
• Learn about Residential Schools and support survivors through https://www.irsss.ca/
• Watch and support Indigenous film through https://imaginenative.org/
• Educate yourself and help Indigenous women at Native Women’s Association of Canada (https://www.nwac.ca/)
• Read UofT’s “Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada” and help keep the university accountable to its stated goals:...