{"id":43244,"date":"2018-03-11T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=43244"},"modified":"2021-02-07T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T03:42:11","slug":"blanket-exercise-a-path-towards-knowledge-reconciliation-for-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2018\/03\/11\/blanket-exercise-a-path-towards-knowledge-reconciliation-for-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanket exercise a path towards knowledge, reconciliation for participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Metro Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) presented the Blanket Exercise on Feb. 3, 2018 at the Grey Eagle Resort.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>round 130 people registered online for the event but a snowstorm that weekend resulted in only 45 showing up.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second time in Calgary that the Blanket Exercise has happened and it was done for the Interfaith Harmony Week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Blanket exercise is a very experiential undertaking,\u201d Janyce Konkin, one of the co-ordinators, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Blanket Exercise was originally started by KAIROS, an ecological justice and human rights group, as \u201ca teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou walk people through what happened,\u201d Konkin said.<\/p>\n<p>After the exercise, knowledge keeper Marilyn Shingoose, a retired minister and Indigenous elder, did a talking circle.<\/p>\n<p>This was developed due to the 1996 report of the Royal Aboriginal Peoples as they viewed education as important on the steps to reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes asking and being willing to be a little bit uncomfortable, to learn,\u201d Debra Faulk, a member of MACG, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Blanket Exercise covers more than 500 years of history in a 90-minute participatory workshop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a huge desire for people to learn this. &#8211; Janyce Konkin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Participants take on the role of Indigenous peoples in Canada as they stand on blankets that represent the land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the history is told, the blanket is folded,\u201d Faulk said.<\/p>\n<p>As the exercise goes on it goes from everyone attending to only a few left, showing the impact the colonizers coming to Canada had on Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a huge desire for people to learn this,\u201d Konkin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Metro Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) presented the Blanket Exercise on Feb. 3, 2018 at the Grey Eagle Resort. Around 130 people registered online for the event but a snowstorm that weekend resulted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2018\/03\/11\/blanket-exercise-a-path-towards-knowledge-reconciliation-for-participants\/\" title=\"Blanket exercise a path towards knowledge, reconciliation for participants\">[ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":43250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S3 Blanket Exercise YYC","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"post_format-post-format-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43914,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43244\/revisions\/43914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}