City making progress with reconciliation, SACPA told – Lethbridge Herald

September 15, 2017.

What does reconciliation mean and is the City of Lethbridge doing enough to make amends?

This was the topic of Thursday’s SACPA session, presented by Roy Pogorzelski, a traditional MŽtis from Saskatchewan and director for the Iikaisskini (Low Horn) FNMI Gathering Place at University of Lethbridge.

In December 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its 94 “Calls to Action,” calling on all forms of government to begin the process of reconciliation. The Lethbridge Indigenous Sharing Network was established to start discussing urban indigenous issues in Lethbridge.

Last year, a reconciliation sub-committee collaborated with Lethbridge city council and administration and consulted with Elders from the Blackfoot Confederacy to come up with a plan.