Benefits of Attending
Indigenous storytellers, keepers of knowledge, and community members developing history and heritage projects may improve the effectiveness of their community or organization’s commemorative, cultural, language, legal, historical, and heritage initiatives by building and sharing knowledge at the Indigenous History and Heritage Gathering:
- Strategize on addressing gaps in the historical record
- Entrench Indigenous heritage in the wider community through naming practices
- Prepare for your community’s work on commemorating residential school survivors and the impacts of residential schools through case studies on developing community narratives, dedicating integral community initiatives, and making research available to communities
- Collect oral histories for use in the courts
- Find appropriate funding for historic legal claims
- Share Indigenous culture and history through authentic tourism experiences
- Review innovative approaches to language revitalization drawing on historical and heritage practices
- See the potential for building legacies around the work of commissions
Cultural professionals, language experts, historians, corporate representatives, Indigenous community liaisons, legal teams, media, scholars with a residential school focus, government employees, and anyone involved in researching Indigenous histories and presenting and incorporating an inclusive heritage may improve the effectiveness of their organization’s Indigenous, historical, and heritage initiatives by building and sharing knowledge at the Indigenous History and Heritage Gathering:
- Engender support for Indigenous projects within your organization and the wider community
- Honour Indigenous heritage through thoughtful renaming initiatives
- Identify ways to work effectively and meaningfully with Indigenous partners
- Understand your organization’s role in supporting data sovereignty
- Learn about cutting-edge heritage and mapping projects
- Orient your museum to support Indigenous perspectives
- See the potential for building legacies around the work of commissions