Watch! Victoria Grant on reconciliation & reciprocity and shifting the power in Canada

“If we want to shift the power, we must learn to understand and appreciate the diversity among indigenous peoples and indeed among all peoples around us, to learn the history, the culture and the contemporary reality of their experiences.. Diversity is natural. It is not something that needs to be overcome. It need not threaten the unity of humanity. Accepting and celebrating our diversity as humans begins with understanding and leads to respect, then accommodation, then trust and, ultimately, to a shift of the balance of power to equiibirium. In fact that’s what reconciliation is all about.” 

Victoria Grant, of the Loon Clan, Teme-Augama Anishnabai, a member of the Temagami First Nation and Board Chair of Community Foundations of Canada speaking at the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1st & 2nd December 2016