In May, the First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina co-hosted the 9th National Building Reconciliation Forum. Centred around the theme Responsibility as Reconciliation: Relational Accountability, this year's Forum marked a decade since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's 94 Calls to Action.
One of the largest, and highest-attended Forums in the 10-year history of the event, FNUniv and the U of R welcomed 250 attendees to their campuses, representing almost 60 post-secondary institutions from across Canada. Attendees included university Presidents, Provosts, Vice Presidents, and Indigenous leadership teams from across Canada - from British Columbia to Newfoundland, and as far north as the Yukon.
"Co-hosting this year's Forum alongside the First Nations University of Canada was both an honour and a responsibility. It meant creating space for deep truth-telling, courageous conversations, and the kind of relationship building that reconciliation demands," says Lori Campbell, Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Engagement) at the University of Regina. "Welcoming university leaders from across the country to our campuses reminded us that this work is collective, ongoing, and rooted in accountability to Indigenous peoples and future generations."
