Exploring Theme: "Reconciliation Framework for Cdn. Archivists"

The Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives (SCCA) this week released the Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce, the result of five years of research, relationship building, and collaboration across the Canadian archival community with Indigenous partners. This framework provides a road map of sorts, setting out a vision,...

On July 2, 2020 a “Reconciliation Framework for Canadian Archives” was released by the Canadian Association of Archivists who had received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant to fulfill its mandate of responding to C2A # 70.  The Truth and Reconciliation Task Force (TRC-TF) was established with three primary...

TRC Task Force Action  Fundamental project goals are:  To identify, by working with Indigenous communities, how Canada’s archives might move towards reconciliation, in light of both UNDRIP and UNJOP. To produce recommendations for full implementation of the findings of the above research. To design a reconciliation framework, in collaboration with Indigenous communities, which actively engages...