Honouring National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Author: Kim Sandiland, RD | PCDA President and Board Chair

Posted: September 9, 2021

This year, September 30th, 2021 will be observed as National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Previous to this date being recognized as Federal statutory holiday, September 30th has been recognized as Orange Shirt Day to honour Indigenous children forced to leave their family to attend residential schools.

As President of the PCDA, a nutrition professional, and a settler-Canadian I will be spending the day listening, learning, and understanding the harms that nutrition and malnutrition experiments had, and continue to have on Indigenous peoples.

The PCDA encourages all RDs and RD2B to learn more about the legacy of residential schools, and the role of dietetics in residential schools.

Below is a list of links and resources shared from the PCDA's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee (DEIC).

A Special thank you goes out to Abby Richter, Chair of the committee for curating the content.

Webinars

• Nutrition Connections – Debwewin: Exploring Stories of Dietitians Working in Indigenous Communities (free recording)

• Nutrition Connections – Impacts of Systemic Racism on Indigenous Peoples’ Experience of Healthcare and Nutrition (free recording)

• Canadian Nutrition Society – Special Webinar: Out of the Darkness and into the Light (free LIVE event)

Truth and Reconciliation

• https://nctr.ca/

• https://www.icscollaborative.com/

• WELCOME (orangeshirtday.org)

• Indigenous Canada | Coursera

Nutrition-Specific

• https://foodsecurecanada.org/residential-schools-and-using-food-weapon

• https://nourish-healthcare.squarespace.com/food-is-our-medicine-landing-page

• Indigenous Nutrition

• Ancestral Food-Ways | WELLFORCULTURE

• http://nada.ca/

• https://idhc.life/

• http://iffculture.ca/

Podcasts

• https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-105-unreserved

• https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/906-telling-our-twisted-histories

Social Media

• https://www.tiktok.com/@shinanova?

• The Arctic Kitchen: Recipes of the North | Facebook

Resources

• Book: ’Recovering Our Ancestors Gardens’ by Devon Mihasuah

• Book: ’The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles’ by Nicole Redvers

• Book: ‘A knock on the Door : the essential History of Residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation commission of Canada’

• National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health – Let’s Talk Whiteness and Health Equity

• Providing culturally responsive dietetic services: A self-assessment tool for clinicians

• How to choose culturally appropriate education resources: A guide for dietitians and nutritionists

• NIDA – Traditional Food Guide: Gifts from our Relations