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How Brands Can Support Indigenous Communities on Social—the Right Way
There is a growing interest among businesses, large and small, to add their voices to the nationwide acknowledgment of the trauma inflicted upon Indigenous children at Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.
This was amplified in 2021 with the location of nearly a thousand unmarked graves at sites of the now-shuttered institutions—and we know thousands more have yet to be discovered.
On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it’s important for Indigenous people (and, frankly, for non-Indigenous people) to see businesses and brands honour those who lost their lives through the 165-year program of assimilation.
It’s also important for us as Indigenous people to see them pay tribute to those who survived their years at the notorious schools.
But deploying the hashtag #TruthAndReconciliation...