Beyond #ChangetheName

The Government of Canada established Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2007 to investigate the history of residential schools. The investigation’s goal was to inform Canadians about the brutal treatment of Indigenous people under the residential school system and to start the process of reconciliation with Indigenous communities. Reconciliation, however, goes beyond the residential school system: indigenous language rights, disparities and discrimination in the child welfare system, and the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women are just a few examples of persistent injustices that Canadian indigenous people face today.