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- Title
Micro-Reconciliation as a Pathway for Transformative Change.
- Authors
Tait, Caroline Lilly; Mussell, William; Henry, Robert
- Abstract
In December 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's final report was released, accompanied by 94 "Calls to Action" designed to frame Canada's path to reconciliation, the majority of which focus on macro-level changes that place responsibility on governments and public institutions to commit to broad sweeping systemic reforms and investment. Settling of Indigenous land claims, entrenchment and implementation of Indigenous rights and First Nations' Treaty Rights, and reform of Canada's human service sector is expected to play out in Canadian courts and through political, legislative, and policy processes in the upcoming decades. Embedded within the TRC's Calls to Action is also the need for action at micro-levels. "Micro-reconciliation" requires a pervasive and transformative moral refashioning of everyday interpersonal interactions between First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples and Canada's settler population. The purpose of this paper is to explore micro-reconciliation as a supportive and necessary approach to enhance and advance cultural safety work and humility across the human service sector. Similar to cultural safety and humility, a micro-reconciliation approach aims to challenge and diminish racism, inequality, and inequity experienced by Indigenous peoples. However, in arguing for changes to the human service sector, micro-reconciliation focuses on the intersections between entrenched structural racism and the psychological and emotional roots of discrimination that are allowed to play out in everyday service delivery provided to Indigenous peoples. The intention of our argument is to link this work with the need for overall structural reform, because without simultaneously identifying and addressing structural violence and systemic racism, micro-level changes aimed at educating and improving care provision will not be sustainable, and resistant to further forms of racism and violence.
- Subjects
CANADA; TRUTH &; Reconciliation Canada; INSTITUTIONAL racism; INDIGENOUS rights; TRUTH commissions; INDIGENOUS peoples; FIRST Nations of Canada
- Publication
International Journal of Indigenous Health, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 2, p19
- ISSN
2291-9368
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31928