A Jumble of Collected Thoughts on Reconciliation

Can’t help but be angry at how many (rich) white men are leading the “reconciliation” conversation.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) October 19, 2016

@nicholas919191 @CBCBecauseNews @cbcradio @Mysterio_Rising @jessewente @RebeccaNorthan Forgot the “truth” part of Truth and Reconciliation hey? A common problem with settlers.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) April 4, 2017

@oboondocks apparently “reconciliation” means “pretending to be Native like a giant asshole”.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) February 17, 2017

I do feel that reconciliation is confused with forgiveness. We forgive you, you forgive yourselves, moving on…yeah no.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) October 3, 2016

If you don’t recognize our humanity, there can never be reconciliation. And too many of you see us as not-human. What a sickness you hold.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) August 13, 2016

Trying to excise the terms “decolonization” and “reconciliation” from my vocab. Too often they are empty signifiers. Say what you mean.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) June 18, 2016

“Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.” Ugh please less pageantry more concrete action.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) June 17, 2016

If “reconciliation” is going to be anything, it should be creating or deepening relationships fractured by colonialism…

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) April 19, 2016

I am more and more convinced reconciliation is a sham meant to keep us engaging with Whiteness.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) April 18, 2016

Maybe we could have a Year of Reconciliation, where all the old White guys stop talking about Indigenous people. Just a year.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) December 9, 2015

Lol, my sign for reconciliation would be two-fold. One, that shutting the mouth sign, and then a tugging at the ear meaning ‘listen’.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) June 11, 2015

I don’t want to hear people mouthing the word reconciliation when you’re celebrating learning history from a work of fiction. Work harder.

— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) March 7, 2014

That’s the problem at the heart of reconciliation, reflected in this budget. Sacrifice (restitution) from Canadians isn’t on the table.

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) March 23, 2016

From Taiaiake Alfred on 25 years post Oka: without land “reconciliation will remain a smokescreen for recolonization” http://t.co/lxMwyqG34p

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) July 13, 2015

The bad news? Most Canadians don’t see the TRC (and more likely reconciliation) as involving them or their communities.

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) July 9, 2015

“Orwellian rubric of reconciliation and respect” Russ Diabo, Shiri Pasternak
https://ricochet.media/en/125/harper-first-nations-assimilation-agenda

“Reconciliation is about restitution” Vanessa Watts & Hayden King
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trc-report-a-good-start-but-now-its-time-for-action/article24824924/?cmpid=rss1&click=sf_globe

Reconciliation means learning what it means to be family.-Niigaan Sinclair
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/have-we-reached-a-turning-point-272111001.html?device=mobile

Stienke: Modern treaties an example of “ongoing reconciliation”. Not perfect, there are issues. But we’re trying. #IIGR

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) November 30, 2013

Ravi De Costa: “TRC is better at engaging the unengaged when it comes to truth, but not reconciliation. Thats worrisome…” #EncountersinCA

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) May 16, 2013

@apihtawikosisan images of suffering Indigenous kids made for settler consumption, reconciliation hipster white guilt porn

— Erica Violet Lee (@EricaVioletLee) February 24, 2017

Men who are invited to all-male events to talk about Truth and Reconciliation: we need you to do better. Say something. Give up your spot.

— Erica Violet Lee (@EricaVioletLee) November 3, 2015

Reconciliation is not us all getting along while we kill this planet together #Maamwizing2016 @christibelcourt

— Eve Tuck (@tuckeve) November 20, 2016

Reconciliation w/o the return of our land is not even possible.Reconciliation is a rebranding of insidious gov’t practices @christibelcourt

— Eve Tuck (@tuckeve) November 20, 2016

By some of the nation’s most progressive, we are looked down upon with a sense of pity, as if reconciliation means it is the duty of Canadians to learn to be kind to Indigenous people. – Erica Violet Lee

reconciliation as the restoration of good relations. – Erica Violet Lee

After the shooting in La Loche, Canadian flags are flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning for lives lost to the ongoing violence of colonialism. Perhaps a move to reconciliation, then, requires lowering the flag entirely. – Erica Violet Lee https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/reconciling-apocalypse#sthash.2FdTJemv.dpuf

So, ya, let's talk about authenticity and mobility, etc. But not in the service of some Potemkin reconciliatory bricolage.

— Hayden King (@Hayden_King) May 13, 2017