How do Indigenous teachings, stories, and laws rooted upon the Lands we share point toward different possibilities for governance, kinship, and coexistence?
As we close our year-long study of Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous–Settler Relations and Earth Teachings, this final gathering invites us to pause, reflect, and look forward—carefully.
Guided by the insights of Kiera Ladner’s concluding chapter, “Proceed with Caution: Reflections on Resurgence and Reconciliation,” this session brings the TRC#57 hosts together to reflect on what we have learned over the past year, and what remains unfinished. Ladner reminds us that reconciliation is not a destination, a policy achievement, or a symbolic gesture. It is an ongoing process of being and becoming—one that demands responsibility, remembrance, and transformative change rather than convergence or assimilation.
This closing conversation asks us to sit with the hard questions raised throughout the series:
- What does it mean to live together in a mutually agreeable and mutually beneficial way on Indigenous lands?
- Why does meaningful reconciliation require unsettling national myths and confronting uncomfortable histories?
- What responsibilities do individuals, communities, and institutions carry in sustaining just relationships—now and into the future?
- And how do Indigenous teachings, stories, and laws grounded in the land point toward different possibilities for governance, kinship, and coexistence?
Rather than offering final answers, this session creates space for collective reflection. It invites our audience to consider how the teachings shared throughout Season 6 might be carried forward—into your daily life, community work, and long-term commitments.
This closing gathering is not an ending, but a moment of orientation: an invitation to proceed with care, humility, and intention as we continue the shared work of living well together.
Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous–Settler Relations and Earth Teachings
Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows and James Tully
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