Chief Robert Joseph on the need and desire for reconciliation
"Shortly after the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission there were a couple of polls conducted nationally. And the very first poll conducted said that [...] seven out of ten Canadians wanted to reconcile.
Two or three years later another report said that more than eight out of ten—84% of Canadians—still wanted to reconcile.
And so somewhere out there in our country there's a real desire by so many people who want to reconcile."
We spoke with Chief Robert Joseph, a Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation and honourary witness to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission about his new book Namwayut: A Pathway to Reconciliation. In the book and in this episode, Chief Joseph shares an intimate view of his own life while making an impassioned plea to readers to embrace vulnerability, summon the courage to recognize truth and trauma, and take steps towards reconciliation.
Namwayut: We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation
Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation.
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