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September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. My guest today is GoodLife Fitness Associate Jarvis Googoo. Jarvis will talk to us about the challenges he has faced growing up as Indigenous person here in Canada, help us understand Indigenous Perspective and what we can do beyond today to help create the change needed.

We are also featuring music by Indigenous artist Renae Morriseau. 

RENAE MORRISEAU

Special thank you to Renae Morriseau for sharing her music with us. Please support her and her music group M’girl by visiting https://www.mgirlmusic.ca/

Songs featured “Healing Song” and “New Nation”

LINKS

Out of the Depths by Isabelle Knockwood

Purchase it here

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

https://nctr.ca/about/history-of-the-trc/trc-website/

WHAT MORE CAN I DO?

Collectively, we can pause and reflect on the history and impact of the Indian Residential School system in Canada. For non-Indigenous Associates, a great way to acknowledge Truth & Reconciliation Day is by committing to learning about Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Reconciliation. If you’re looking for a place to start:

• Take a look atIndigenous Canada. Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson online course from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Native Studies – and it’s completely free on Coursera. You can work through the material at your own pace, anytime and anywhere. More than 163,000 people around the world have already enrolled and committed to learning more – including some of our very own executive and senior leaders here at GoodLife.
• Visit Whose Land to determine whose traditional territory you currently live and work on, and then click through the information provided to learn more.

Those who are able can also make a donation to the following organizations:

• Orange Shirt Society
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society
• Copper Legacy Indigenous Empowerment Society

30 Minutes with podcast is produced by Richelle Lowry. For more information about us visit www.goodlifefitness.com