Museum Tour Reflection
Museum Tour Reflection
Museum Tour Reflection
Directions: Please fill out the questions below in full sentences. Feel free to use the back if you run out of space.
1. List three new things that you learned during this tour
3. What is a connection you can make between your experience today and what we have been learning in English
First Peoples
4. What role do you think Canadian Museums have in the reconciliation process?
Excerpts from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action Concerning Museums and Archives
67. Provide funding to the Canadian Museums Association to undertake, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, a
national review of museum policies and best practices.
70. Provide funding to the Canadian Association of Archivists to undertake, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, a
national review of archival policies and best practices to: appropriate memorial ceremonies and commemorative
markers to honour the deceased children.
76. We call upon the parties engaged in the work of documenting, maintaining, commemorating, and protecting
residential school cemeteries to adopt strategies in accordance with the following principles:
i. The Aboriginal community most affected shall lead the development of such strategies.
ii. Information shall be sought from residential school Survivors and other Knowledge Keepers in the development of
such strategies.
iii. Aboriginal protocols shall be respected before any potentially invasive technical inspection and investigation of a
cemetery site