Hi! I'm Annie from Delaware. I work at the John Dickinson Plantation.

Hi! I'm the lead interpreter at the New Castle Court House Museum in Delaware

Hi! I’m Hailey - I work in SRSC at Algoma :)

I'm Emily from the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Hi all, Zachary here from the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine

Hi all. Thanks for saying hi. If you haven't had a chance to introduce yourself please do so!

HI! I’m Ann DuCharme, museum educator, Martha’s Vineyard Museum

Shingwauk Residential School Centre:

http://www.shingwauk.org/srsc/

Archives:

http://archives.algomau.ca/main/

TRC Calls to Action

http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

Akomawt Educational Initiative

https://www.akomawt.org/

Abbe Museum

https://www.abbemuseum.org/

As someone who is not Indigenous, and without much authority in the museum where I work (I'm "just" an educator, not a curator), how can I contribute to these changes? I do what I can, but it's hard without any real power in the museum...

Following on the topic of museums, in terms of reconciliation, what do Chris and Elizabeth think is the most important step for museums to take to achieve it, even if their collections don't include indigenous materials?

Believe me, I know educators are important. But in the structure of the museum, I have very little power. I can't influence the design of exhibits or who is hired or how much the museum collaborates with the Indigenous communities...

In primary and secondary school I did not know what a residential school was, let alone that there was one in my city until I attended orientation at Algoma. We did not learn much Indigenous history as a whole - what are some other ways to get this important knowledge into schools?

I do as much as I can in educational programs, but I wish the change could be more systemic.

Emily, maybe you can start be decolonizing your language and the ways that you speak about the exhibits already done? see if that raises some eyebrows? provokes some must needed conversation?

I try very hard to do exactly that!

https://native-land.ca/

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