Resources: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Evenings and Weekends
- Sep 29
- 3 min read
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is on Tuesday, September 30. It’s a time for reflection, honouring residential school survivors and the thousands of children who never made it home. It also reminds us of our shared responsibility to act with love, respect, and justice while advancing reconciliation year-round.
Once again, Evenings & Weekends Consulting is supporting One Day's Pay, a grassroots campaign mobilizing settlers and non-Indigenous people to give one day's pay (or what you can afford) to Indigenous-led projects, movements, organizations, and nations.
One Day’s Pay is guided by the incredible team at The Circle on Philanthropy, a national Indigenous led organization that works to transform the philanthropic sector to redistribute wealth, activate wisdom and strengthen organizational infrastructure for the purpose of Indigenous peoples, organizations, communities and nations. Evenings & Weekends is proud to work with, learn from, and provide ongoing financial support to the important work that the Circle does everyday.
For 2025, One Day's Pay is encouraging people to support:
We also encourage you to follow local Indigenous-led organizations and groups that operate in your own community. See which opportunities to support are available, which may include monetary donations to fund their work, mutual aid and/or volunteering needs, and sharing their content.
E&W has had the privilege of working with National Council of Indigenous Midwives (based in Montreal), the North Point Douglas Women’s Centre (based in Winnipeg), and the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning (based in Yellowknife), and we are continually learning from them in their work to reclaim and promote Indigenous practices for birth, women’s health, and land-based learning.
Finally, our team has been reading and watching some wonderful works from Indigenous authors and filmmakers. See our recommendations below.
Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Amid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present. Featuring a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and an afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Bad River written and directed by Mary Mazzio
BAD RIVER, narrated by Quannah ChasingHorse and Academy-Award nominee, Edward Norton, and written and directed by award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio is a documentary film which chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty, a story which unfolds in a groundbreaking way through a series of shocking revelations, devastating losses, and a powerful legacy of defiance and resilience, which includes a David vs. Goliath battle to save Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America. As Eldred Corbine, a Bad River Tribal Elder declares: “We gotta protect it… die for it, if we have to.”
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Daring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt. In The Idea of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of twenty-first-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. Through lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments, the poems, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes slyly humorous, are always finely crafted, putting to use the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt’s body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of grief and awe.