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Honouring Truth and Reconciliation Day

Author: Laurie Michael, RD, MPH | PCDA President and Board Chair

Posted: September 30, 2023

Truth and Reconciliation Day and Orange Shirt Day will be observed this year on September 30th. This day honours Indigenous children who were forced to leave their families to attend residential schools and the intergenerational trauma that persists to this day.


As President of the PCDA, a nutrition professional, an active member in my community, and a settler-Canadian; Truth and Reconciliation highlights the important message that settler colonialism has created, shaped, and perpetuated current dysfunctional, unjust, and inequitable systems and how we live, learn, play, interact, and work in our communities. I will be spending the day (and beyond); 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 RD2Bs to learn more about the legacy of residential schools, the role of dietetics in residential schools, how this has shaped the profession, and what we can do to acknowledge and learn from these truths.

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Laurie Michael, RD, MPH

President, Primary Care Dietitian Association

president@primarycaredietitianassociation.org

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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 two of our DEIC Committee members, Marley Fisher and Abby Richter, for curating the content.


Webinars

Truth & Reconciliation

Nutrition-Specific

Podcasts

Social Media

Resources

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