(Ottawa, ON) February 16, 2022 - On this week’s episode of Roots and Hoots, host Gordon Spence is pleased to be joined by Tricia E. Logan. Tricia is a Métis scholar with over 20 years experience working with Indigenous communities in Canada. Tricia has held previous roles at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and the Legacy of Hope Foundation to name a few. Tricia and Gordon sit down to discuss language revitalization and the important history of Métis People in Canada today.

Tricia is the head of Research and Engagement at the University of British Columbia’s Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and is cross appointed as an assistant professor at the UBC School of Information. As a Métis woman, Tricia’s work centres around researching the Métis experience in Residential Schools and Federal Indian Day Schools. She has worked with many bureaus of public servants, to address the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, specifically with Call to Action 57. Tricia’s current role focusses on working directly with oral histories and records of Indigenous People, through the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC.

Learning the Michif language is of strong interest to Tricia, who has travelled to Capperville, MB to spend time with revered language speakers and learn from them. Through the discussion, Tricia speaks to the uniqueness of the Métis experience at Residential Schools, and the bureaucratic yo-yoing between provincial and federal government responsibilities. Métis Survivors have faced a telling journey to compensation and acknowledgment from the Federal Government. Acknowledgement which she states, is a cornerstone of wishes from Survivors.

Rounding out the episode with a Bannock recipe, Tricia assures Gordon and viewers that the recipe is no secret, but rather is being shared with the audience because it can be found online. This illustrates the consideration and care which Tricia has for her community, and of the importance of ethics in all practices of daily life.

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for over 21 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Sixties Scoop on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage people to address discrimination and injustice in order to contribute to the equity, dignity, and respectful treatment of Indigenous Peoples and to foster Reconciliation.

La FAE dispose de plus de 25 expositions accessibles au public et travaille à rendre ses autres expositions disponibles en ligne. La Fondation possède également des programmes d'enseignement de la maternelle à la 12e année et pour les adultes, ainsi que des guides d'activités visant à sensibiliser les Canadiens à l'histoire autochtone et à l'histoire commune des pensionnats et des externats, de la Rafle des années 60, etc. La FAE travaille à développer l'empathie et la compréhension afin d'éliminer le racisme à l’égard des peuples autochtones.

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