10/01/2026
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡🪶
Today - and everyday - we honour residential school Survivors, the children who never came home, their families and their communities. We remember, we continue to listen, learn, teach and act. We know that wearing an orange shirt is only a start… there is so much work that we need to build into our everyday.
Regina Public Schools is on Treaty 4 territory and the homeland of the Métis, and this work happens all year:
🧡 In May, our division signed a five-year agreement with the Office of the Treaty Commissioner. It commits us to stronger Treaty education, grounded in the TRC Calls to Action, UNDRIP and the MMIWG Calls to Justice. We will reviews our progress every year.
🧡 Focus on teachers receiving Treaty training and new tools to bring Treaty education into every subject and grade.
🧡 Students learn Cree and Michif in many of our schools with more making it a part of their days
🧡 Students take part in land-based learning, drum groups, smudging, and learning from Elders.
🧡 We focus strengthening our Indigenous Advocates numbers, impact, and resources.
🧡 We host an annual Feast and Round Dance, and everyone is welcome
🧡 An Indigenous Education Advisory Council, which includes: Elders, knowledge-keepers, Indigenous community members - advises our board
🧡 And so much more to come with our educators and our commitment to reconciliation.
Calls to Action ask schools to teach this history, Treaties and Indigenous contributions, and to prepare our teachers to teach them well 🧡
We all need to keep asking what is working, what is not working, and pay attention to what we still need to hear.
Not just this one day a year, but keep it in our hearts and do it all year.
Every Child Matters 🧡🪶
