Healing a Nation Through Truth and Reconciliation | Chief Dr Robert Joseph | TEDxEastVan
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Canada’s past held some dark and terrible secrets on the treatment of it’s First Nations peoples. Chief Robert Joseph experienced these destructive forces firsthand in the Residential School System and he now explains how sharing these truths was the first step to reconciling a nation. Helping to heal this racism and intolerance is to recognize ‘we are all one’.
Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, O.B.C. is a true peace-builder whose life and work are examples of his personal commitment. A Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, Chief Joseph has dedicated his life to bridging the differences brought about by intolerance, lack of understanding and racism at home and abroad. His insights into the destructive impacts these forces can have on people’s lives, families, and cultures were shaped by his experience with the Canadian Indian Residential School system. Chief Joseph is currently the Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and a member of the National Assembly of First Nations Elders Council. As one of the last few speakers of the Kwakwaka’wakw language, Chief Joseph is an eloquent and inspiring Ceremonial House Speaker. He shares his knowledge and wisdom in the Big House and as a Language Speaker with the University of BC, an internationally recognized art curator and as co-author of “Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast”.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Moved to tears. Thank you so much Chief Joseph.
he's such a sweetheart and a powerful speaker :')) truth and reconciliation IS Canada
Thank you. I finally truly understand what is meant by reconciliation. Peace.
So inspiring - True reconciliation is love among all people - thank you Dr. Joseph, beautifully said..🧡
GILAKAS’LA - I was born into a Faith and Culture that ALWAYS believed - We are one !! Thank you so much for your inspiring words Dr.Robert Joseph.
you are an amazing man Chief Joseph .
Thank you for your kind and wonderful words Chief Dr. Robert Joseph. I will do my best to travel that path with you. Very encouraging talk!!
So passionate and wonderful the words, penetrates in the mind listening to it. Who can't understand what this beautiful person says!
Amazing presentation that all Canadians must watch.
Gilakas'la
g̱ilakas x̱an tłax̱a̱n wi'ump
gratitude for this wisdom, and to ancestors who brought us to this time!
Cutting people's throats for fun is also embedded in human history, both via a grand scale and via a personal scale.
So we do not define ourselves by such atrocities, nor should we ignore the limitlessness human potential for creating a torturous experience for both ourselves and for others.
What we should focus on is, "potential," what we can imagine and effect from this place forward.
THAT...is the true litmus of a human being; what do you aspire to?
What makes you more than the parts that society has pigeon-holed you into?
What makes you something unique and special?
All that is really required is to just think about it. We are all unique by birthright.
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Truth and reconciliation is problematic because it places us in the past (Dr. Harjo). We need to move forward and spiral up. We don't need a pause -- we need to move on and be proud. I challenge all future Indigenous generations to stand-up and make a call to action.
The past needs to be healed from within the spirit world before we can move forward. That's the whole point of truth and reconciliation; it is rooted in the past.
JESUS IS THE WAY THE TRUTH and THE LIFE ...No one comes to the FATHER but by HIM❤