Introduction
INTRODUCTION Chapter 9, “Wellness and Healing,” takes a closer look at the National Inquiry’s own health and wellness approach for family members and survivors, and what we have learned from families and survivors who participated in the National Inquiry who discussed their own healing journeys. In Chapter 10, “Commemoration and Calling Forth,” we turn to the National Inquiry’s efforts to raise awareness and engage in public education through our Legacy Archive, art outreach, and youth engagement guide. Altogether, we assert, these actions, engagements, and interactions will help reclaim the role of women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people as powerful cultural carriers and sacred knowledge holders who are capable of shaping a safer future for the next generation of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. In Chapter 11, “On the Front Lines: Valuing the Insight of Front-line Workers,” we provide a summary of four Guided Dialogue sessions, held in the fall of 2018. These dialogues brought together people of diverse perspectives to discuss best practices and solutions for change. These were not aimed at gathering individual testimony, but instead aimed to bring together front-line service providers, organizers, people with lived experience, Elders, academics, and outreach support to fill in gaps and discuss best practices related to their own backgrounds within specific Inuit, Métis, 2SLGBTQQIA, and Quebec contexts. Over the course of three days, participants identified barriers and discussed what best practices and solutions look like through the lenses of culture, health, security, and justice. Calls for Justice We end with our Calls for Justice. These Calls are anchored in human and Indigenous rights in- struments, Indigenous laws, and principles shared through the testimonies of family members, survivors, Knowledge Keepers, and Expert Witnesses, along with the National Inquiry’s advisory groups, both internal and external.
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