Are you moved to find ways to live reconciliation, following the recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Halifax? Are you concerned about Aboriginal realities, such as we see at Attawapiskat? Are you seeking and finding commonalities among Maritime and Aboriginal responses to issues such as shale gas, pollution and other environmental threats? Do you want to build more supportive relationships across our cultures, so that our original Treaty Vision of Peace and Friendship together can finally be realized in our region? 

This program is for anyone who would like to learn and build skills to engage at the intersection of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, on current issues in the Maritimes.

gkisedtanamoogk teaches Native Studies at the University of Maine, is a founder of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition - Atlantic, and worked for many years on Lnapskuk - The Neighbours Project and the Peace and Friendship Project. Margaret Tusz-King has worked with program development with Tatamagouche Centre and with the United Church of Canada, and worked with gkisedtanamoogk on Lnapskuk and the Peace and Friendship Project. This cross-cultural team of educators has, between them, decades of experience working at the community level on many issues, including the Burnt Church fisheries crisis of 1999.

Spend the weekend with gisedtanamoogk and Margaret (and additional resource people), to learn:

• how our cultures got to this point together, after 500 years;
• what our Treaties and legal obligations are, and what they mean for us in 2012;
• key foundations and approaches to working cross-culturally;
• effective educational and relationship-building processes
• more about current issues, and how to work together on them