Righting History's 2025 Active Learning Club Series: Indigenous Icons of Canada

Описание: 2025’s curated Active Learning Club (ALC) meeting series is part of our Righting History, a project of Shake Up The Establishment. ALC meetings are spaces for everyone to unlearn and learn together about climate and social justice in a safe, brave, and accountable environment. This year’s theme is: Shifting Paradigms: Reimagining Climate Solutions Through a Justice Lens.

Righting History is a platform that hosts intersectional, anti-colonial educational initiatives designed to amplify critical perspectives and community knowledges that help to advance environment, climate and social justice across the lands that are currently known as Canada. Our 2025-2026 offerings are funded by the Toronto Foundation, and as such, are dedicated towards highlighting transformative solutions that can help us advance environmental justice and address environmental racism in Toronto, Ontario. However, the many impactful lessons and stories that we have curated as part of this year's educational initiatives also carry impact for Canadians far and wide!

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Indigenous Icons of Canada: Reclaiming the Brilliance and Resistance of our Ancestors
Facilitator: Atreyu Lewis (they/he)

Reclaiming the Brilliance and Resistance of our Ancestors. Learn about the achievements, struggles and contributions of First Nations historical figures (1900-1950), how they shaped, influenced and contributed to the city of Old Toronto and how their histories are relevant to the Toronto experience today. Examine 3–5 historical figures’ lives, contributions, and visions for future generations. Connect these stories to current climate and healing justice struggles. The workshop is lecture-based and interactive, emphasizing understanding Indigenous worldviews to learn how to practice authentic reconciliation as Torontonian residents.

What You’ll Learn:
Understand the relevance and historical significance of early 20th-century First Nations figures, their lives and careers in Old Toronto and why it’s vital to bring their stories into public consciousness.
Explore how language, stories, and culture survived through education, grassroots organizing, and politics linking to real historical examples of Toronto grassroots organizations, GTA based advocates and campaigns.
Recognize ongoing patterns of colonial oppression across time through GTA Institutional treatment and how they persist today in different social fields.
Reflect on the importance of sharing these histories within Indigenous urban Toronto community and what it means to strive for true reconciliation and justice as both urban Indigenous people and settler allies.
Connect Indigenous Canadian history to the modern climate justice movement, understanding why we must learn from community leaders, Elders, and activists.

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