Truth & reconciliation: Interactive content

The following interactive websites and activities offer opportunities for self-reflection as well as extended learning about the history of residential schools and Indigenous languages and cultures.

Did you live near a residential school as a child?

• Find out what the nearest residential schools to your home was and when it closed with this interactive map.

Reflect on your own history and read the reflections of others

• "Where I'm From" participatory poem exercise

Explore Indigenous place, language, and heritage 

• The First Peoples' Map of BC (has tabs for languages, arts, and heritage)
• Native Land ("an app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages")
• Singuistics app ("learn traditional songs in languages from across turtle island")

Learn more in a massive open online course

• Reconciliation through Indigenous Education (UBCx)
• Indigenous Canada (University of Alberta)
• Aboriginal Worldviews and Educations (University of Toronto)