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Truth & Reconciliation

This artwork was created to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and reflect both Indigenous teachings and COI’s values.

August 25, 2025
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This artwork was created to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and reflect both Indigenous teachings and COI’s values.

  • The Circle represents the interconnected nature of Indigenous worldviews and COI’s belief in One Team, One Goal.
  • The Eight-Pointed Star honours the North Star as a source of guidance and wisdom, aligning with COI’s value of Honour.
  • The Medicine Wheel Colours symbolize healing, balance, and adaptation—echoing COI’s value of an adaptive mindset.
  • The Orange Banner represents the commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, a reminder of the determination needed to honour Indigenous lives.
  • The Single Fallen Feather pays tribute to the children lost to residential schools and the ongoing impact of genocide.
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Metis/Cree Mother and Artist, Victoria Scattergood

She draws her inspiration from the world around her as well as her lived experiences. Being Metis she has experienced both the realities of being Indigenous, and ‘not Indigenous enough’. Her work speaks mostly of life and love as she breaks the generational trauma of being Indigenous, and the ongoing battle to be seen as human and not an ‘other’ or ‘less than’. 

University of Alberta Indigenous Canada

The UofA offers a free online course called Indigenous Canada. This is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores the different histories and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples living in Canada.

From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores complex experiences Indigenous peoples face today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.

Indigenous Canada is for students from faculties outside the Faculty of Native Studies with an interest in acquiring a basic familiarity with Indigenous/non-Indigenous relationships.

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