For National TRC Day, the Weaving Our Worlds collective will be attending the National TRC day gathering on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands. Survivors and community are calling on people to “come together in community to honour Survivors, remember those we lost, and walk forward in healing.”
We humbly encourage everyone to also attend on Tues Sep 30 at noon at Grandview Park, details here
We also invite ways to honour the truths that residential school survivors have shared and that this day centers and upholds:
Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGrJNUCQ-r4
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s
https://open.spotify.com/show/7D4inq4DY144KIZN99Od6t
Phyllis Webstad explains her experience at Residential School and the origination of Orange Shirt Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuW4WbekhxY
The Survivors Speak:
https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IR4-5-2015-eng.pdf
We invite spending time meaningfully reflecting on the ongoing genocidal reality of Canada, and to act to dismantle its ongoing violent harms on Indigenous families, communities, and Nations:
From Red River to Unist’ot’en: An Unconventional Timeline of Police Repression and Indigenous Resistance:
https://www.thevolcano.org/2019/01/22/from-red-river-to-unistoten/
Questions you can ask yourself as a non-Indigenous person participating in TRC Day:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJZMqsvaze/?igsh=MXYwYzRiOWQwa3F5Mw==
“Land Back” is more than the sum of its parts
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/land-back-is-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts
Yellowhead Institute’s, “How Do You Like Your Reconciliation,” Treaty Map, and Land Back online course.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOtlunYEdVw/?igsh=Z2lsd2k1bDduNnBv
And take up the call by Indigenous peoples and orgs for settlers to redistribute our TRC stat pay to Indigenous-led organizations and movements, like these, and also for direct aid efforts:
https://chuffed.org/project/yintahsolidarity
https://unya.bc.ca/get-involved/#donate
For those providing support and care for survivors: Kuu-Us Crisis Line for Elders, adults and youth is at 1-800-588-8717.