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Two women sit in camping chairs under trees.

An Indigenous man wearing yellow and painted white dances, with people watching from behind.

Compile of three images include fire smoking and people standing around a fire.

A First Nations woman wearing a black tshirt looks at the camera.

"But what we're doing, we're basing it on the oral history of the Councillor family; we've been holding this story for a very long time and we stand on that truth."
Smoke drifts over several people stand in a row.

A drone shot of a circle of red dirt in the bush, near a spring.

"I believe it was 300; somebody dropped a zero somewhere."
A man stands by a fire as the sun comes through the trees.

A person wearing a yellow shirt standing in the bush looking straight at the camera.

People sitting in chairs around a circle of red earth in the bush.

"By being here and by practising deep listening, we are taking the first steps toward moving past the denial that is part of our cultural inheritance, towards a more truthful future."

Two people hugging.

"Your kind invitation speaks of a magnanimity and generosity that I have no right to desire or to seek out, and yet even with the knowledge of the past, you've extended your hands to mine in a search for truth and healing that I think we all seek in common,"
he said.

Three people sitting in chairs, listening.

"The healing for [them] as a non-Indigenous person, I thought, 'Wow, that's the other side of the coin', the healing for us the dispossessed, and the ones who were actually the descendants of the perpetrators and how they might need healing too,"
she said.
Composite of three images showing Indigenous and non Indigenous people dancing.

A woman in a black t-shirt smiles looking away from the camera.

"We want people to learn to hear us, just the way we're speaking."
A group of about 20 people gathered and smiling at the camera.

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