Outside the Box

The City of Regina Archives unveiled its 150 stories timeline during National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, a day dedicated to honouring our First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. The interactive timeline provides an Indigenous perspective from pre-contact to present day. The stories share the wisdom and personal reflections of Indigenous residents of Regina and surrounding areas. This oral history project is an initiative of the City of Regina Archives. It reflects the history of Regina and Canada through 150 memories, histories and experiences shared by members of our Indigenous community. The timeline creates an ongoing archival resource for the community. It provides an opportunity to listen to the experiences and perspectives of Indigenous peoples and to open conversation around the difficult times in our shared history. Grant funding for this project was provided by the Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, the Saskatchewan Lotteries Trust Fund for...

On March 12th, the SCAA hosted a day-long workshop on the topic of Indigenous-Settler relationships, decolonization, and reconciliation, called the Respect and Relationship Session. The workshop consisted of a morning talk by Eugene Arcand, a Residential School survivor, about his experiences. After lunch, participants were invited to join in a blanket exercise, a teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. For more information on the workshop, please see this previous post.    Following is a brief review of the event, with reflections on the morning's talk by Crista Bradley of the University of Regina, and reflections on the blanket exercise in the afternoon by the Provincial Archives' Jeremy Mohr.  Crista Bradley University of Regina Archives  Records and Information Management Archivist On the morning of March 12, 2018, SCAA members gathered for the first half of the Respect an...

Truth, reconciliation, and decolonization are at the forefront of many peoples' minds these days, and no less so in the archival community. Archives have a crucial role to play in the truth-seeking and acknowledgement that must occur before meaningful reconciliation can take place between Indigenous peoples and Canada's settler populations.  By preserving records of Indigenous history under colonial rule and walking the line between making those records accessible, but protecting the identities of those who suffered under the system, archivists are uniquely situated to provide supports for change. For this reason, the SCAA wishes to provide additional supports to our members as they work within this rapidly shifting landscape of Indigenous-Settler relationships. To this end, a workshop is being offered on March 12th, 2018 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the First Nations University Multipurpose Room. The day-long workshop will consist of two parts, Morning Presen...