Join the BCMA for Book Club!

Over seven sessions, participants will read through From Stealing to Healing: Repatriation and B.C. First Nations and the From Stealing to Healing: Repatriation Cost Analysis Report alongside BCMA team members, Lorenda and Leia. The purpose of this series of online discussions is to support cultural heritage professionals’ decolonization efforts and to utilize existing resources. Education on topics and histories resulting from colonialism is critical if the sector is to move forward in reconciliation.

From Stealing to Healing Repatriation and BC First Nations:
March 3rd: pages 5-24
March 17th: pages 25-37
March 31st: pages 38-60
April 14th: pages 60-81
April 28th: pages 82-94

From Stealing to Healing: Repatriation Cost Analysis Report:
May 12th: pages 1-16
June 2nd: pages 17-24

In past sessions, the BCMA Book Club has read;

Honouring the Truth and Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the TRC

Moved to Action: Activating UNDRIP in Museums, by the Canadian Museum Association

Indigenous Repatriation Handbook, by Jisgang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K‘awas Lucy Bell, and Lou-ann Neel.

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), The Government of Canada’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan (2023), and the Government of B.C’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan (2022)

Select years of the Indian Act from: Consolidation of Indian Legislation Volume II: Indian Acts and Amendments, 1868-1975 and Indian Act R.S.C.,1985, c I-5 (last amended on August 15, 2019).