Week 19 - Honour an Indigenous Worldview
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week invites a different kind of reflection. Robertson encourages us to honour an Indigenous worldview. Honouring is rooted in respect, curiosity, and humility. It creates space for learning and for being shaped by what we encounter….

Week 18 - Watch an Indigenous Television Show
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week might be one of the most accessible invitations yet: watch an Indigenous television show. As Robertson reminds us, supporting Indigenous storytelling isn’t limited to books. It extends across the arts: film, television, music, and beyond. And just by choosing what we watch, we help shape what gets made next.

Week 17: Support an Indigenous Business
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week is a very practical one. Robertson invites us to support Indigenous businesses, artists, and entrepreneurs. It doesn’t have to be a big purchase. Even a small investment can make a difference when it comes to supporting Indigenous-led work and creativity….

Week 16: Read Indigenous Comics
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week, Robertson invites us into a different kind of storytelling: comics and graphic novels. For him, this is deeply personal. Comics shaped his own journey as a writer, and they became one of the ways he chose to tell Indigenous stories in response to the stereotypes and misrepresentations he saw growing up….

Week 15: Help Fund Indigenous Education
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week, Robertson turns to education, something deeply personal in his own life and family story. He shares how his father, an ordained United Church minister, devoted much of his life to improving access to education for Indigenous communities. A key part of that vision was local control—ensuring that Indigenous communities could shape their own education systems in ways that reflect their languages, cultures, and ways of knowing….

Week 14
Volunteer Your Time
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

Robertson begins this chapter by reflecting on the phrase “Indian Time,” a stereotype sometimes used to suggest that Indigenous people are habitually late. Like many stereotypes, he notes, the phrase is both inaccurate and harmful….

Week 13
Educate Yourself About the Sixties Scoop
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week asks us to learn about a painful but important chapter in Canada’s history: the Sixties Scoop. As Robertson reminds readers, understanding the history of how Indigenous children have been separated from their families is essential if we are going to understand the depth of trauma many communities continue to carry today…

Week 12
Support Indigenous Athletes
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week, Robertson turns to the world of sports. For him, the invitation is simple: go out and support Indigenous athletes when you have the chance. Sporting events can become powerful places of community, pride, and connection….

Week 11
Learn Everyday Words in Indigenous Languages
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

In this chapter, Robertson returns to a theme he touched on earlier: the importance of language. For many Indigenous communities, language is deeply tied to identity, culture, and worldview. Elders often say that when a language is lost, a culture is lost with it….

Week 10
Support the Renaming of Colonial Memorializations
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

In this chapter, Robertson turns to something many of us encounter every day without thinking twice about it: the names of our streets, schools, and public buildings. In recent years, especially following the confirmation of unmarked graves at former Indian Residential School sites, communities across Canada have begun re-examining who we choose to honour in these spaces….

Week 9
Support an Indigenous Musician
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

This week, Robertson turns to music and you can feel how personal this one is for him. Music, he says, has shaped his life as both a writer and an Indigenous person. Just as Indigenous authors write across every genre, Indigenous musicians are creating powerful work in country, folk, rock, hip-hop, electronic, jazz, and more. The range is wide…

Week 8
Start a Second Book in Your Indigenous Book Club
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

Back in Week Two, Rev. Joanne invited us to consider starting an Indigenous book club. This week, Robertson gently nudges us a step further. If you started that journey, don’t let it become a one-time experience. Reconciliation is not meant to be “one and done,” and neither is reading Indigenous stories….

Week 7 - Check Your Idioms
(from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing)

This week, Robertson invites us to pay closer attention to the everyday language we use. Many common idioms are so familiar that we rarely stop to think about where they come from or how they might be received….

Week 6
Write a Land Acknowledgement
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing…

Week 5-Research Indigenous Place Names
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

In this chapter, Robertson invites us to notice the places we move through every day, especially the rivers and lakes that shape our communities and our sense of home. He begins with the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg, describing how it is woven into daily life, from kayaking in the summer to neighbourhood hockey games in the winter. It is easy to enjoy these places, he suggests, without ever stopping to think about where their names come from….