Journey Towards Reconciliation

For my aesthetic piece of this project, I decided to draw a medicine wheel. Throughout my reconciliation journey, it has always been a part of my life from as far back as I can remember. As well this is a component I hope to bring into my classroom in the future.

I included words of reference within each of the four quadrants that I believe represent the mind, spirit, body, and soul that we can reflect on through this process of truth and reconciliation.
The images provide the process of reconciliation of the past and present situations including, residential schools, MMIW, their original land, and acknowledging the children/survivors of the schools.

“A journey towards reconciliation isn’t one-stop and done. It is a messy, but beautiful journey that will hopefully lead to a better future in our society. I can recall my own reconciliation journey beginning around grade one. No, I didn’t know the entire truth about Indigenous people at that young of an age, but learning about Indigenous history all began then. It wasn’t till grade six in my elementary years that my reconciliation journey truly took off…” – Jordy McEachern

See attached file for my entire paper.